Suneel Kumar is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University. His research focuses on developing therapeutics for central nervous system injuries and related secondary consequences with a special emphasis on the interactions between the central and peripheral nervous system post trauma. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India, and joined Rutgers for his postdoctoral training in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, and later, he was promoted to Research Associate at Biomedical Engineering.