He received his PhD at the University of Calcutta, India. Dr. Datta is a recipient of an NIH/NIDA Career Development Award. The major research interests of the Datta lab are to elucidate the epigenetic mechanisms involved in the regulation of the glutamate transporter EAAT2 in the context of NeuroAIDS and the role of exosomes in the pathogenesis of NeuroAIDS.