Dr. Mukhopadhyay is Professor and Fellow of the
of the James E. Bauerle Centennial Professorship
in the Division of Pharmacology at the University
of Texas at Austin. He has a medical degree from
India, a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from New York
Medical College, and he completed his
postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon
University. He started his independent career at
UT Austin in 2013, was promoted to Associate
Professor in 2019, and Professor in 2025. Dr.
Mukhopadhyay's research focuses on gene
environment interactions in parkinsonism. He has
been continuously funded by the NIH since 2013
(over $10 million in NIH funding). His work is
routinely published in high impact and selective
journals (e.g., PNAS, etc.) and covered in feature
articles (e.g., NIH/NIEHS Paper of the Year 2019).
He holds several influential leadership positions in
international organizations (e.g., at Society of
Toxicology, International Society for Trace
Element Research in Humans). He is a standing
member of the NIH NAL study section.