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Dr. Pahan is the Floyd A. Davis, M.D., Endowed Chair in Neurology at the Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) and a Research Career Scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (Chicago). He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Calcutta in 1992. He joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in January 1999 and created the Laboratory of Neuroimmunology. He was promoted to Professor of Neurological Sciences, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology in July 2006. He was featured in Neuroscience (SFN 2019) Hot Topic and invited to the Neuroscience (SFN 2019) Press Conference. He is cited by Wikipedia for his famous discovery of statins. He received the outstanding teaching award in 2000, the “Chancellor’s Council Silver U Award” in 2004, and the "Reinhardt Research Scholar Award” in 2005 from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. In 2017, he received the Zenith Fellows Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. Dr. Pahan has published 195 SCI papers with more than 12,000 citations and an H index of 63 and is a coordinator and a principal leader of more than 50 research and collaborative projects. Dr. Pahan’s current research fields include multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, Batten disease, and other lysosomal storage disorders.