Bornali Kundu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Bornali Kundu, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Missouri and a member of NextGen Precision Health. Trained at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Utah, and University of California–San Francisco, Dr. Kundu is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon specializing in epilepsy surgery, movement disorder surgery and deep brain stimulation. Her clinical practice also includes the surgical treatment of brain tumors, facial pain, traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Kundu’s research program focuses on human electrophysiology, memory and learning, cognitive neuroscience and neural circuit dynamics underlying working and long-term memory. By integrating intracranial electrophysiology, signal processing, neuroengineering and translational neuroscience, her work aims to identify circuit-based biomarkers of memory and cognition that can inform next-generation brain stimulation therapies for neurological and psychiatric disease. As a clinician-scientist and collaborative leader, Dr. Kundu works closely with neurologists, neuroradiologists, engineers and basic scientists to advance precision medicine approaches for disorders including epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer’s disease.