Following his post-doctoral fellowship at the
University of California, Berkeley, Kolodkin joined the faculty at
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1995. As an
assistant professor in the department of neuroscience, Kolodkin's laboratory focused on the understanding of how nervous system connectivity develops in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Upon joining the faculty, he collaborated with David Ginty, then an assistant professor in the Neuroscience Department, to study semaphorin receptors. In 1996, Kolodkin received a
Searle Scholars Program Award to study Molecular Mechanisms of Growth Cone Guidance. He was also awarded the Whitehall Foundation Research Award, the Klingenstein Award, and McKnight Neuroscience Scholars Award. In 2000, Kolodkin received an Investigator Award from the
McKnight Foundation. Following his promotion to
associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Kolodkin was one of three recipients of the 2002 Kirsch Investigator Award from the
Steven Kirsch and Michele Kirsch Foundation. As a result of the award, he received funding for his research activities on the Mechanisms of Neuronal Guidance and Regeneration. In 2004, he was promoted to the rank of
Full professor and received the Sen. Jacob Javits Award from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Strokes. The following year, based on Kolodkin’s research team’s work on neural circuit formation in fruit flies and mice, he was one of 43 scientists selected as Investigators by the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Prior to the 2016–17 academic year, Kolodkin was appointed the inaugural holder of the Charles J. Homcy and Simeon G. Margolis Endowed Professor of Neuroscience. He was also elected into the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences for "identifying the first members of the semaphorin family and pioneering the identification of mechanisms by which semaphorins act to guide axon." In 2020, Kolodkin was elected a member of the
National Academy of Medicine. In Spring 2022, Kolodkin was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences for his research into neuronal connectivity during embryonic and postnatal development. ==References==