Dr. Priya Prakash is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Shane Liddelow at NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Neuroscience Institute. Her work focuses on understanding how glial cells in the brain contribute to neurodegeneration. As a Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellow, she is investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which reactive astrocytes induce neuronal toxicity and how such pathways can be manipulated to change disease outcomes. Dr. Prakash pursued her Ph.D. at Purdue University while working with Dr. Gaurav Chopra as an Interdisciplinary Life Science graduate student in the Chemistry Department. Her doctoral work focused on determining how microglia become dysfunctional in chronic inflammation. She received numerous awards in graduate school, including the competitive Eli Lilly-Stark Neurosciences predoctoral research fellowship, the PULSe outstanding graduate student in research award, the Guy Mellon award in analytical chemistry, and the SURF outstanding graduate student mentor award. Dr. Prakash obtained her Bachelor’s in Biotechnology Engineering in her beautiful hometown of Bengaluru in India.
