Dr. Ipshita Zutshi Joins Rutgers Brain Health Institute as Core Member

Dr. Ipshita Zutshi joined the BHI as a core faculty member in January and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at Rutgers University. Her research studies how hippocampal–cortical circuits support planning and memory during goal-directed navigation, and how disruptions in these circuits contribute to neuropsychiatric disorders. Her lab combines large-scale in vivo electrophysiology, imaging, computational analyses, and circuit perturbations in freely moving rodents.

Dr. Zutshi trained at UC San Diego and completed her postdoctoral work with György Buzsáki at New York University School of Medicine. She is a Simons Foundation Transition to Independence Fellow, the recipient of the 2025 Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award, and a 2025 finalist for the Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists.

Learn more: https://zutshilab.com/