Munjal Acharya, PhDAssociate Professor
Dr. Acharya received his Ph.D. degree in neurochemistry from M. S. University of Baroda (India). His interests in neuroscience continued as a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University Medical Center (US) to study the efficacy of stem cell grafting to treat epilepsy. Dr. Acharya then joined University of California Irvine as a CIRM postdoctoral fellow. Currently, Dr. Acharya’s laboratory studies molecular and cellular mechanisms of cancer therapy-induced brain injury, regenerative therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders.