Prof. Sasanka Chakrabarti is at present the Co-Ordinator of Central Research Cell, M M Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Maharishi Markandeshwar Deemed University, Mullana, Haryana, India, and looks after the different bio-medical research programs of the University. Prof. Chakrabarti with his collaborators and research scholars is actively engaged in research on brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease supported by generous grants from the institute as well as funding agencies of Govt. of India. He extensively uses both animal and cell-based models of neurodegenerative diseases employing a variety of biochemical and cell biological techniques. The emphasis is on mitochondrial dysfunction, altered redox signaling and proteinopathy associated with these conditions. He also works with clinical cases of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease for identification of genetic and metabolic risk factors of these diseases in collaboration with the Dept. of Neurology. A major part of the research  career of Prof. Chakrabarti was spent in the Dept. of Biochemistry, Institute of Post-graduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata, a premier medical institute of eastern India, where he started his work on brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases in 1995 and continued till 2014. Prof. Chakrabarti graduated in Medicine from Calcutta University in 1978 and obtained post-graduate degree in Medicine with specialization in Biochemistry from Banaras Hindu University in 1985. He served in various academic positions during his long career perfoming both research and teaching duties and has been the principal supervisor of  30 post-graduate students (MD) and 22 graduate science students (Ph.D). He is  a member of the executive committees of  several scientific societies in his field, and also served as the Vice-President of Indian Academy of Neurosciences and as a member of the Editorial Board of Aging and Disease, J Alzheimers Dis, Current Aging Sci, Current Alzheimer Res etc. He with his lab members organized six international conferences (NEUROCON) on Neurodegeneration and Neuroregeneration beginning from 2009 in Kolkata, Haldia and Muullana in India. He received the fellowship of Indian Academy of Neurosciences and West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology.