Affiliation: University of Rochester Medical Center

Dr. Guha was born and raised in Calcutta, India where he did his undergrad studies. Then in 2008, he moved to California where he completed his Masters in Biological Sciences from California State University, East Bay. After that he moved to Singapore, where he worked as a research associate at National University of Singapore. Then he moved to Barcelona (2011), where he did his PhD on Neuroscience from Pompeu Fabra University and after that he returned back to California, where his first postdoc was at the Buck Institute with Prof. Kapahi (2016) on aging and neurodegenerative diseases. After that, he moved to Rochester, Upstate New York to continue his postdoctoral studies by working at the labs of Prof. Keith Nehrke and Gail Johnson (2019).

Recently, he has been promoted as a staff scientist at his department of Anesthesiology, and continue working on his project where he is trying to find out how post-translational modifications of tau selectively impact neurodegeneration and causes mitochondrial dysfunction. The initial observational study is published at Molecular Neurodegeneration and the corresponding review article he published at Molecular Neurobiology (2020).

As a globe trotter, he did his higher studies from 3 different countries, lived in 7 different cities and can speak 5 languages. Also, he is a pioneer mentor at an organization called Freedom Employability Academy, where he helps the under-privileged students better understand what professional paths are available to them, which of those might be appropriate to them, and what they need to do to get there.