Dr. Mehdi H. Shahi is an Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary Brain Research Centre (IBRC), Faculty of Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He earned his PhD in Molecular Genetics of Brain Tumors from the Aligarh Muslim University. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, USA (2010–2014), and Uppsala University, Sweden (2009–2010). His research interests mainly focus on the role of cell signaling pathways in neurobiology and neuro-oncogenesis, stem-cell-mediated tumorigenesis, and revealing the therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.