Dr. Nanda L. Regmi is a lifesaver because of his profession and his life-saving acts of donating blood to those in need. Born in the Syangja District of Nepal in 1965, he currently serves as a research scientist at the Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. Dr. Regmi conducts biomedical research to identify primary genes for the cause of dystonia, a movement disorder condition in humans, in collaboration with world-famous scientists, including a Nobel laureate. He has saved the lives of more than twenty-five thousand individuals by donating 8,500 pints of blood through Blood Donors of America (BDA).
Dr. Regmi completed his proficiency in science from the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Rampur, TU, Nepal, in 1987 and his Bachelor of Arts with a major in mathematics and economics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, in 1992. He was one of the first students in Nepal to achieve a Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry in Rampur, Nepal, in 1995. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in veterinary science (with a major in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics) from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu-Shi, Tokyo, Japan, in 2007. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychiatry from 2008 to 2011, the Department of Internal Medicine from 2011 to 2013, and the Department of Internal Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) from 2014 to 2015 at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, USA. He served as a researcher starting in 2007 at Nippon Zenyaku Kogyo, Pvt. Ltd., Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan; as assistant professor of veterinary pharmacology at the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Rampur, TU, Nepal (1997–2002); and as a veterinary officer in the Department of Livestock Services, Government of Nepal (1996–1997). Dr. Regmi is also a coordinator for distance education via Skype from the USA to Nepal for students and faculty of higher education.
Dr. Regmi’s most significant scientific contribution is a report on the mechanism-based inhibitory effect of fluoroquinolones (FQs) on the cytochrome 4501A enzyme in dogs at therapeutic dosage. Other works include “Oncogenes Activate an Autonomous Transcriptional Regulatory Circuit That Drives Glioblastoma” (2017), Cell Reports, Vol. 18 (4), 961-976; “CA1-Specific Deletion of NMDA Receptors Induces Abnormal Renewal of a Learned Fear Response” (2015), Hippocampus, 25, 137-9; “Hedgehog Signaling Regulates FOXA2 in Esophageal Embryogenesis and Barrett’s Metaplasia” (2014), Journal of Clinical Investigation 124 (9): 3767- 80; and “Selective Dysfunction of Dorsal CA1 NMDA Receptors Induces Generalized Anxiety-Like Phenotypes in Mice” (2018) (revision). Dr. Regmi has also reviewed several manuscripts for publication.
The president of Blood Donors of America (BDA) from 2016 to 2018, Dr. Regmi, informed people of the perks of donating blood throughout his life. He has been an advisor for the Pulmonary Hypertension Society Nepal since 2017, the Indreni Cultural Association 2008 to date, and the International Nepali Literary Society, Dallas Chapter, from 2011 to 2018. He also successfully led the Nepal Animal Science Students Movement to establish veterinary education for the first time in Nepal in 1992.
Dr. Regmi’s life is shaped by a combined experience in academia and humanitarian services. He is a recipient of the NIH Training Fellowship in Barrett’s Esophagus, 2011 and the NIMH Training Fellowship in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 2008. During his study in Japan, he was also able to bag the Heisei 18 Nendo International Harmony Club Foreign Student Scholarship, Nagoya-Shi, Japan, 2006.
Dr. Nanda L. Regmi: Biomedical Scientist and Blood Donors from Texas
