Spotlight on new faculty – Meet Shilpa Buch, Ph.D.

Shilpa Buch, Ph.D.

Shilpa Buch, Ph.D., professor and vice chairwoman for research in the department of pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, is among the many new faculty members at UNMC.

Name: Shilpa Buch, Ph.D.

Title: Professor and vice chairwoman for research

Duties:

• Lead an active program on the synergistic interactions of neuroAIDS and drug abuse;
  
• Mentor junior faculty and post-docs; and
  
• Teach.

Specialty: Molecular mechanisms of HIV neuropathogenesis, neuroprotection and hyperoxic lung injury

Degree: Ph.D. from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India, 1982

Postdoc training:

• Department of cell biology, Health Sciences Center, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada;
  
• Department of biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario; and
  
• Division of Neonatal Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

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