Bidisha Roy is currently a Postdoctoral Associate and a lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark. She has previously held Postdoctoral Fellow positions at the Department of Neurology, UTHSC, Memphis, TN; Department of Pathology, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; and Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Education: Ph.D. (2009) Biology (Neurobiology, genetics, biochemistry, molecular and cell
biology), National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India; M.Sc.(2002) Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; B.Sc. (2000) Microbiology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Research interests: molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration, neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, drug screening and therapeutics, lysosomal dysfunction in disease and cell biology of neurodegeneration, neural development, circuit formation, and function.
