Society Council

Rosemarie M. Booze, Ph.D.

— President (2024)

Professor and Bicentennial Endowed Chair of Behavioral Neuroscience
Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

Howard E. Gendelman, MD

— President-elect (2024)

Editor-in-Chief
NeuroImmune Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Larson Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-5880

Santosh Kumar, Ph.D.

— Past-President (2024)

Professor
Assistant Dean, Scholarly Integration and Collaboration
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
College of Pharmacy
Memphis, TN 38163

Allison M. Andrews, Ph.D.

— Treasurer (2026)

Associate Professor (2026)
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611

Santhi Gorantla, Ph.D.

— Secretary (2025)

Professor
Durham Research Center, Room 8014
Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience
College of medicine
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198

Sabita Roy, Ph.D.

— Chair, Meetings Committee (2025)

Professor
Department of Surgery
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Miami, FL 33136

Nazira El-Hage. Ph.D.

— Chair, Membership Committee Chair (2024)

Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33131

Ilker K Sariyer, DVM, Ph.D.

— Chair, Communications Committee (2025)

Associate Professor, Center for Neurovirology and Gene Editing
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Inflammation
Associate Professor, Neural Sciences
Department of Neuroscience and Center for Neurovirology
Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA 19140

Andrea D. Raymond, Ph.D.

— Chair, Diversity and Inclusion SNIP Committee (2025)

Associate Professor and ODEICI Coordinator for Biomedical Sciences Career Development
Department of Immunology and Nano-Medicine
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199

Jerel Fields, Ph.D.

— Chair, Early Career Investigator Committee Chair (2026)

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla CA 92093

Pankaj Seth, Ph.D.

— Council Member, International (2024)

Professor and Scientist VII
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Neurovirology Section
National Brain Research Centre (NBRC)
Haryana 122051, India

Jun Zhu, Ph.D.

— Council Member (2025)

Professor of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Shao-Jun Tang, Ph.D.

— Council Member (2025)

Stony Brook Medicine Endowed Professorship in Anesthesiology
Vice Chair for Research, Director of The Stony Brook University Pain and Analgesia
Research Center (SPARC)
Department of Anesthesiology
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794

Yisel M. Cantres-Rosario, Ph.D.

— Council at Large (2024)

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Medical Zoology,
University of Puerto-Rico-School of Medicine Medical Sciences Campus
San Juan, P.R. 00936-5067

Siddappa Byrareddy, Ph.D.

— Ad-hoc Council Member (2024)

Professor, Vice-Chair of Research
Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Neuroscience
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198

Michael Shtutman, Ph.D.

— Ad-hoc Council Member (2024)

Associate Professor, Director Functional Genomics Core
Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences (DDBS)
College of Pharmacy
Columbia, SC 29208

Shamsudheen Moidunny, Ph.D.

— Early Career Council Member (2026)

Research Assistant Professor
DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami,
Miami, FL 33101