He received his B.S. in Molecular biology from Grove City College in 2003. He obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Neuroendocrinology from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in 2007 working with Dr. Ute Hochgeschwender. He then pursued postdoctoral research in Dr. Heinrich Jasper’s laboratory, first at the University of Rochester and then at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Dr. Karpac was a Research Assistant Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging from 2013-2014 before joining the faculty at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in September 2014.