Pooja Jain is a tenured Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Drexel University College of Medicine, USA. She also holds joint appointment as a Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at DrexelMed. She is well respected in the field of Neurovirology/Neuroimmunology and made seminal contributions with her studies on HTLV-associated cancer and neuroinflammation with prime focus on the dendritic cells.