Aniket Mishra, Ph.D.

Aniket MISHRA, Ph.D., is a tenured researcher in statistical genetics within the Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, France. He is interested in understanding the genetic basis (risk factors, causal pathways and drugable targets) of stroke and dementia. Dr. Mishra completed his Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia, and two postdoctoral fellowships first at the Neuroscience Campus, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands and second at the Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, France.

Within ten years (three years of Ph.D., a two + three year postdoc and an ongoing tenured position) of his research career he published more than thirty (ten first authorships) articles in peer-reviewed journals, including publications in high impact journals: Nature Genetics, Nature Communications and Brain (one being awarded “Editor’s choice article of the month”), and developed two widely used software: VEGAS2 (>200 citations) and VEGAS2Pathway.

He is an active member of International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC), Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE), and JPND-BRIDGET network.