Ashok K. Shetty is an Associate Director and Professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, located in College Station, Texas. Dr. Shetty has received continuous extramural research funding as Principal Investigator for over 23 years from sources such as the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Dr. Shetty has authored 148 peer-reviewed publications (126 as Senior or First author), and his work has appeared in many top-class journals including Molecular Psychiatry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Neuroscience, Stem Cells, Aging Cell, Redox Biology, Progress in Neurobiology, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Brain, Behavior and Immunity, EBioMedicine, and Neurobiology of Aging. Dr. Shetty has received over 9,800 citations (with an h-index of 56) for his published research articles. Also, Dr. Shetty has the distinction of serving on two different NIH Study Sections (CNNT, DBD) as a Chartered Member. Besides, he has served as an ad-hoc member of over 50 other study section panels of different funding agencies. Dr. Shetty is a Fellow of the American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair.