Zahoor A. Shah is a professor and the Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research in the Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry at the University of Toledo. He was a postdoctoral fellow in 2005 at the University of Louisville, a postdoctoral fellow in 2007 at Johns Hopkins University, and an instructor in 2009 at Johns Hopkins University. His laboratory is interested in identifying and targeting genes or proteins that play a crucial role in neuroinflammation associated with stroke and neurodegenerative diseases.