Raghu Vemuganti, PhD., is a Tenured Professor of

Raghu Vemuganti, PhD., is a Tenured Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Raghu’s lab is supported by several grants from the NIH and the American Heart Association. Raghu serves on many NIH study sections and on several journal editorial boards including “Stroke”. He is an Associate Editor of Neurochemistry International and the Deputy Chief Editor of Metabolic Brain Disease. Raghu’s major research interest is to understand the role of microRNAs and other non‐
coding RNAs in modulating post‐stroke inflammation and secondary brain damage. Dr. Vemuganti published over 120 journal articles (5,075 citations; h‐index: 41 and i10‐
index: 81; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iOtDyCIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao). Raghu chaired sessions and served on the meeting committees on more than 35 occasions and has given more than 50 invited lectures at various International meetings and other Universities. In the past 10 years, Raghu mentored more than 40 post‐docs, fellows, graduate and undergraduate students. He teaches a graduate level course entitled “Molecular Mechanisms of Brain Damage” at the UW Neuroscience Training Program.