Susmita Sil, PhD

2025       Innovation Award (5- new Inventions), UNeMed, UNMC

2025       Carl F. Gessert Award for dedication in teaching, UNMC

2024       Recognized for New RO1 grant award, College of Medicine Retreat, UNMC

2024      Outstanding editorial board member, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles &                  Circulating Nucleic Acids      

2024       UNMC Service Award

2023  High honors for former post-doc, Annual report, UNMC Post-Doctoral Office     https://indd.adobe.com/view/acfb7962-572b-4694-a75c-c2c487d15ed9

2022      Vada Kinman-Oldfield Alzheimer’s Disease Award, UNMC.

2022      New Investigator Award, UNMC.

2020     Young Scientist Award grant, Exosomes in Human Infectious Disease Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, March 4-8.

2019     Best oral presentation Award, Exosomes, Microvesicles, and Infectious Disease, American Society for exosomes & microvesicles, Bolger Center, Potomac, Maryland, USA, May 31-June1.

2018     SNIP Early Career Investigation Travel Award, oral and poster presentation, Joint Meeting of the International Society for NeuroVirology (ISNV) and the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology (SNIP), Chicago, Illinois, USA, April 10-14.

2017     SNIP Early Career Investigation Travel Award, poster presentation, 23rd Scientific Conference, Society on Neuroimmune Pharmacology, Philadelphia, USA, March 29-April 1.

2015     Young Scientist Award Program – oral presentation, Tulsabai Somani Educational Trust Award, Annual conference of Indian Academy of Neurosciences, University of Punjab, Punjab, India.

2015     Best oral presentation award, Indian Academy of Neurosciences, Kolkata Chapter, India.

2015     Young Scientist Award Program, Indian Science Congress, Mumbai, India.

2014     Best poster presentation award, Indian Science Congress, Jammu, India.

2014     Selected as Science Communicator from Kolkata Chapter, for oral presentation at Science Communicator’s Meet, Indian Science Congress, Jammu University, Jammu, India.

2013     Best oral presentation award, Indo-British Symposium, Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata, India.

2013     R. Nath Memorial Travel Award, Indian Academy of Neurosciences, Allahabad, India.

2013     Best oral presentation award, Indian Academy of Neurosciences, Kolkata Chapter, West Bengal, India.

2013     Young Scientist Award Program, Indian Science Congress, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

2012     Best oral presentation award, Indian Academy of Neurosciences, Kolkata Chapter, India.

2011      Best poster presentation award, International Conference on Molecules to Systems Physiology: 100 Year Journey, Centenary Celebration of the Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, India

• International Society for Extracellular Vesicles

• Society for Neuroscience
• Society for Neuroimmune Pharmacology
• Physiological Society of India
• Indian Academy of Neuroscience
• Indian Science Congress Association

1. Ray S, Kumar M, Chemparathy D, Dash P, Sil S*. 2025. HIF-1 targeting intervention renders protection from Alzheimer’s like pathology in a Humanized mice model of HIV infection. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, doi: 10.1002/jev2.70191.
2. Ray S, Dutta S, Saha A, Sil S*. 2025. Astrocytes and astrocyte-derived extracellular conduits in Opiate- mediated neurological disorders. Invited Review; Cells, 14(18): 1454.
3. Kumar M, Saha A, Ray S, Sil S*. 2025. Stem-Cell-derived extracellular vesicles as a therapeutic strategy in Counteracting Age-Associated Decline. Invited Review; Extracellular Vesicles & Circulating Nucleic Acids, 6(3): 594–608.
4. Chemparathy DT, Ray S, Ochs C, Ferguson N, Gawande DY, Dravid SM, Callen S, Sil S*, Buch S. 2024. Neuropathogenic role of astrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders: Role of astrocytic amyloids in neuronal injury. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 13: e12439.
5. Kumar M, Swanson N, Ray S, Buch S, Saraswati V, Sil S* ^. Astrocytes in amyloid generation & alcohol metabolism: Implications of alcohol use in neurological disorder(s). Cells, 13(14):1173.
6. Kannan M, Singh S, Oladapo A, Chemparthy DT, Gawande DY, Dravid S, Buch S*, Sil S*. 2022. HIV-1 Tat induced microglial EVs leads to neuronal synaptodendritic injury: microglia-neuron crosstalk in NeuroHIV. Extracellular Vesicles & Circulating Nucleic Acids, 3:133-49. This article received the “Best paper award of the year 2023” by the journal Extracellular Vesicles & Circulating Nucleic Acids.
7. Chemparthy DT, Kannan M, Gordon L, Buch S*, Sil S*. 2021. Alzheimer’s-like pathology at the crossroads of HIV-associated neurological disorders. Vaccines, 9(8):930.
8. Sil S*, Singh S, Chemparthy D, Chivero E, Gordon L, Buch S*. 2021. Astrocytes & astrocyte-derived extracellular vesicles in morphine-induced amyloidopathy. Aging and Disease,12(6):1389-1408.
9. Sil S*, Periyasamy P*, Thangaraj A, Niu F, Thomas D, Buch S. 2021. Advances in the experimental models of HIV-associated Neurological Disorders. Current HIV/ AIDS report, 18(5):459-474.
10. Sil S, Dagur RS, Liao K, Peeples ES, Hu G, Periyasamy P, Buch S. 2019. Strategies for the Use of Extracellular Vesicles for the Delivery of Therapeutics. Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 15(3):422–442.
11. Sil S, Hu G, Liao K, Niu F, Callen S, Periyasamy P, Fox H, Buch S. 2020. HIV-1 Tat-mediated astrocytic amyloidosis involves the HIF-1α/lncRNA BACE1-AS axis. Plos Biology, 18, e3000660. Review of the above article- Molecular mechanisms involved in HIV-1 Tat and astrocyte-driven amyloidogenesis, News in Neurovirology, Fall 2020, vol. 16, no. 3, page 8.
12. Sil S, Periyasamy P, Guo M, Callen S, Buch S. 2018. Morphine-mediated brain region-specific astrocytosis involves the ER stress-autophagy axis. Molecular Neurobiology. 55, 6713-6733.
13. Sil S, Niu F, Tom E, Liao K, Periyasamy P. 2019. Cocaine mediated neuroinflammation: Role of dysregulated autophagy in pericytes, Molecular Neurobiology, 56: 3576-3590.
14. Sil, S., Ghosh, T. 2016. Role of Cox-2-mediated neuroinflammation on the neurodegeneration and cognitive impairments in colchicine-induced rat model of Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 291: 115-124
15. Sil, S., Ghosh, A., Ghosh, T. 2016. Impairment of blood brain barrier is related with the neuroinflammation induced peripheral immune status in intracerebroventricular colchicine injected rats: An experimental study with mannitol. Brain Research,1646: 278-86

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