Sujit Pujhari is a Research Assistant Professor and Director of Viral Vector Core at the School of Medicine Columbia, University of South Carolina. He received his M.Sc. in life sciences at Sambalpur University and earned his Ph.D. in virology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University (USA) and the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization International Vaccine Center, University of Saskatchewan (Canada). He is a lab member, and the lab’s current research focuses include: (1) engineering and developing AAV and lentivirus vectors for neuroscience and infectious disease research; (2) establishing human brain organoids as a model to study the molecular mechanisms of psychiatric and other neurological disorders; and (3) Developing Virus Reporter Particles (VRPs) and diagnostic ELISAs for fighting to emerging and re-emerging viral diseases.