Neurovirology: neurotropic viruses and the brain. Interview with Sunit K Singh by Hannah Branch.

Sunit K Singh speaks to Hannah Branch, Commissioning Editor Sunit K Singh obtained a Bachelor's degree from GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (India) followed by his Master's degree from the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (India). Upon the completion of his Master's degree, Singh moved to the University of Wuerzburg (Germany) to complete his PhD degree in the field of Molecular Infection Biology. Subsequently, he undertook his postdoctoral training at Yale University School of Medicine (CT, USA) and at the University of California Davis Medical Center (CA, USA). Singh has also been visiting faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY, USA), Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva (Switzerland) and the Institute of Parasitology (Czech Republic). At present, he is a permanent member of faculty in the Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunobiology Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB; India) and is leading a research group in the area of neurovirology there. Singh has been an author of a number of papers published in peer-reviewed journals, and has been honored with several awards, including the Skinner Memorial Award, Young Scientist Award, Travel Grant Award and the NIH-Fogarty Fellowship. In addition, he is a valued editorial board member of several journals, including Future Microbiology.