Aruna Sharma
Secretary of Research,Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine
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Biography
Aruna Sharma (nee Bajpai) W/O Hari Shanker Sharma is currently working
as Medical Administrator in Uppsala University Hospital, Division of
Anesthesiology & intensive Care Medicine. She is born in Unnao and married
to Hari Sharma in April 1979. After graduating in Indian Medicine Aruna Sharma
went to Free University Berlin, University Hospital, Kilinikum Steglitz, West
Berlin (at that time) in Germany (1989-1991) for advance training in
Neuropathology. She also worked as expert neurpathologist on Electron microscopy
in School of Biosciences, Karl Marx University, Leipzig, German Democratic
Republic (GDR), East Germany (now Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany) briefly
and then came to Uppsala University in 1991. She actively participated in
research works on CNS injury with Hari Sharma in Institute of Neuropathology
since 1992-1996 and then in Neuroanatomy 1997-2003. She joined Department of
surgical Sciences, University Hospital in April 2004. She is actively working
on Nanoneurotoxicity of engineered metal nanoparticles and silica dust in
animal models of stress and brain injury sponsored by European Aerospace of
Research & Development (EOARD), London, UK and Wright Patterson Air Force
Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH, USA. She is then key investigator of
age-related toxicity of nanoparticles in relation to their sizes in mammals
under normal and in hyperthermic conditions. This research works was acclaimed
at Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Washington DC Nov 12-16, 2011. Based on
her research in Nanoneurosciences she is nominated as member of Swedish Academy
of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Stockholm in 2011. She is active member of Society
for Neurosciences, Washington DC, USA, International Brain Edema Society,
Tokyo, Japan, International Brain Research Organization, Paris, France, New
York Academy fo Sciences, New York, USA and American Association of Advancement
of Science, Washington DC. Her administrative capability in medicine and
research acquired International Women of the Year award 2009 (for Sweden) and
enrolled her in prestigious top 10 Women administrators who set the standards
by International Women review Board, USA in 2010. She is also the acquisition
editor of key neuroscience journals namely American Journal of Neuroprotection
and Neuroregeneration (AJNN) and Journal of Nanaoneuroscience (JNS) published
by American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, CA, USA. In the capacity of
Organizing secretary she organized several International neuroscience
congresses in Europe and in other parts of the World, namely, 7th
Global College of Neuroprotection and Neuroregenartion (GCNN) Marc 3-7,
Stockholm, Sweden, 8th GCNN Congress, Amman, Jordan, April 22-25,
2011, 9th GCNN Congress in Xi’an, China, May 3-7, 2012. She is the
guest editor of Journal of Nanoneuroscience April 2012; Central Nervous System
Neurological Disorders drug Target Feb 2012 and actively contributed key
chapters in scientific protocols and reviews in Neuroscience Book series
including Progress in Brain Research, International Review of Neurobiology. She
received Albert Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award for her continuous leadership
in Science in 2020.