Dr. Debashis Dutta has been working as a Staff Scientist in the Department of Pediatrics, Darby's Children Research Institute at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA, since 2021. He earned his Bachelors and Masters in Microbiology in 2007 and 2009, respectively, from the University of Calcutta. He conducted his Ph.D. studies on experimental parkinsonism at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India, and following that he joined Rush University Medical Center in the year 2016 as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Over the years, Dr. Dutta's research has revealed multiple important mechanistic pathways involved in neurodegeneration in Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Huntington's disease and sheds light on new drug targets/therapeutic means to combat the disease pathology in brain. Dr. Dutta has served as a reviewer of several well-regarded international journals and is a member of certain esteemed neuroscience societies worldwide. Due to his research excellence he was awarded as the Young Scientist Educational Enhancement award from the American Society of Neurochemistry, USA in 2022 and the Ramalingaswamy fellowship award from the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India in 2022.