Anirban Basu is a Senior Scientist and J C Bose National Fellow at National Brain Research Center, Manesar, Haryana. So far, he has trained eleven Masters students, fifteen PhD students and eleven postdoctoral fellows, and numerous short term and long term research trainees in his lab. Dr. Basu has long been interested in curing diseases of the nervous system. His current research is focused on studying innate immune mechanism in the healthy and diseased central nervous system, with specific reference to Central Nervous System (CNS) infections, and neurodegenerative diseases. The group of students who currently working with him is testing strategies to develop disease-modifying therapy by abrogating inflammation in CNS disorders. Dr Basu sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Neurochemistry (handling editor), and Journal of Neuroinflammation, and Metabolic Brain Disease. He is also an editorial advisory board member of F1000 Research. At present, Dr Basu is co-section Head for the Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System Section in F1000 (which forms part of the Neurological Disorders Faculty). Several National Awards from different bodies have recognized Dr Basu’s scientific accomplishments. He is the recipient of National Bioscience Award for Career Development (2010) from DBT, Vasvik Industrial Research Award (2011), Dr. J.B. Srivastav Oration Award (2011) from ICMR, Rajib Goyal Prize (2012), NASI- Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award (2013), Senior Scientist Oration Award (2015), from the Indian Immunology Society, Sreenivasaya Memorial Award (2017) of Society of Biological Chemist (India), Basanti Devi Amir Chand Prize (2017) from ICMR, Prof S S Katiyar Endowment Lecture (2018) of The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Dr. Y.S. Narayana Rao Oration Award (2018) from ICMR, K T Shetty Memorial Oration Award (2019) from Indian Academy of Neurosciences, and Drs. Kunti & Om Prakash Oration Award (2020) from ICMR.Dr Basu is a recipient of Tata Innovation Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), and J C Bose Fellowship from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). He is also an elected fellow of all three national academy of sciences of India, Indian Academy of Neuroscience and American Academy of Microbiology. At present Dr Basu is serving as an elected member to Indian National Science Academy (INSA) council, and he is also serving as a Vice President to the Indian Academy of Neurosciences.