Raghu Vemuganti, Ph.D.

Dr. Vemuganti’s research in the past 20 years evaluated these mechanisms that are central in promoting either secondary brain damage or recovery after stroke with a goal to design novel therapies, with a focus on studying the role of various RNAs in promoting post-stroke brain damage. The goal is to understand the mechanisms as well as identifying new therapeutic targets to minimize the secondary brain damage and to promote functional recovery after stroke, including alterations in the expression and/or function of transcriptional and translational mechanisms including various classes of noncoding RNAs, epigenetics and epitranscriptomics.