University of California Irvine
Irvine, United States
Dr. Acharya has been working in the field of regenerative medicine and cancer therapy-induced brain injury for the past ten years. Dr. Acharya has uncovered a glia-dependent pathophysiological mechanism of radiation-induced cognitive dysfunction. In addition, Dr. Acharya has developed human stem cell-based regenerative strategies to remediate the brain from the unintended side effects of cancer therapies including cranial irradiation and chemotherapy. His research has delineated the paracrine mechanism (exosomes) of stem cell transplantation-mediated recovery of the injured brain.
Dr. Acharya received his Ph.D. degree in neurochemistry from the M. S. University of Baroda (India). His interest in neuroscience continued as a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University Medical Center (US) to study the efficacy of stem cell grafting to treat epilepsy. Dr. Acharya then joined the University of California Irvine as a CIRM postdoctoral fellow. Currently, Dr. Acharya’s laboratory studies molecular and cellular mechanisms of cancer therapy-induced brain injury, regenerative therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, and chemobrain.
Dr. Acharya's research is and has been funded by NIH, California Inst. of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA), the Department of Defense, and the American Cancer Society.