Eric Shusta received his BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1994. He subsequently attended the University of Illinois where, as an NSF and Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Foundation Graduate Fellow, he received his MS (1998) and PhD (1999) degrees in chemical engineering. After studying neuroscience, in particular the blood-brain barrier, as an NIH postdoctoral training fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, he took a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001.

At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Shusta has held a research focus in the molecular level analysis of the blood-brain barrier, employing cutting-edge genomic, proteomic, and molecular evolution techniques to better understand how the blood-brain barrier functions and how to circumvent it for the delivery of brain therapeutics.

Dr. Shusta has been the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, and has been elected to the Governing Council of the International Brain Barriers Society.