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Kalipada Pahan is a professor of Neuroscience in Rush University Medical Center[1 ]. He is the senior editor of the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology[2] and the Journal of Clinical and Cellular Immunology[ [3 ] ]. He is known for his research on studying the role of statins in the suppression of inflammation in glial cells. He has published that work in the Journal of Clinical Investigation in 1997 from the laboratory of Dr. Inderjit Singh  in Medical University of South Carolina[4 ]. Since then he has been continuing his work on statin and its role in the cure of multiple neurodegeneartive and neuroinflammatory disorders[5 ][6 ]. Recently his lab reported that statin could be useful in the amelioration of Parkinsonian pathologies in mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Apart from his research on statin, his pioneering research of sodium phenyl butyrate[7 ][8 ], a prodrug of NAPA[|[9]] on the suppression of glial activation recently attracts media attention. He currently holds the Floyd A Davis chair of Neurology in Rush University Medical Center.

Early Career
He received BS (Chemistry) in 1985, MS (Biochemistry) in 1987, and PhD (Biochemistry) in 1992 from the University of Calcutta, India. The same year he joined the Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Inderjit Singh's lab. In 1999, he moved to the Department of Oral Biology of the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002. He is the recipient of the "D. H. Reinhardt Scholar" Award from the UNMC College of Dentistry and the “Silver U Award” from the UNMC Chancellor’s Council. As a teacher of Biochemistry, he also received the outstanding teaching award from the UNMC College of Dentistry.

Research Interest
Glial and neuronal cell signaling and neural stem cell differentiation with an emphasis to discover drugs and therapeutic strategies against neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disorders such as multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Batten disease, and HIV-associated dementia. The list of his publication can be found in pubmed.