Dr. Devaraj Basavarajappa is a Senior Research Fellow at the Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences. His research focuses on uncovering the mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation in optic neuropathies and trans-synaptic neurodegeneration within the brain, using a range of degenerative animal models. His primary aim is to redefine our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases affecting the retina and the visual pathway, with a focus on cellular signaling, cell death pathways, microRNAs, and neuroinflammatory processes.

He received his PhD from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratory in India. He brings extensive research experience in vision neuroscience, inflammation, and inflammatory resolution, gained from his work at the Dean McGee Eye Institute in the USA and the Nobel Prize-winning laboratory at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.