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U.S.-India Joint Research Training Program
Research Training in Global Infectious Diseases
The US-India Joint Research Training Program "Research on Intracellular Pathogens" has funded three graduate student fellowships and two postdoctoral fellowships.
| Bhavna Chawla, a second year Ph.D.
student at JNU in the lab of
Dr. Rentala Madhubala, is working on a collaborative project with
Dr. Madhubala and
Dr. Kenneth Stuart at SBRI to investigate mechanisms of
resistance to drugs in Leishmania.
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Ashwani Sharma, a second year grad student in the lab of Dr. Amit Sharma, is working on a collaborative project with Dr. Shama and Dr. Stefan Kappe (SBRI) on structure and function of proteins important for the development of the liver stage of Plasmodium. |
Krishna Kishore Inampudi, a postdoctoral scientist in the lab of Dr. Alok Bhattacharya, is working on a collaborative project with Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Wes Van Voorhis at the University of Washington to select and analyze new drug targets in parasitic diseases.
| Ankur
Sharma, a second year Ph.D.
student at JNU in the lab of
Dr. Rentala Madhubala, is working on a collaborative project with
Dr. Madhubala and
Drs.
Ruobing Wang and
Peter Myler at SBRI on
a high-throughput
genomic and immunological approach to rapidly characterize
potential vaccine candidates using Leishmania genome
sequence.
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Sonia Guha, a postdoctoral scientist will work on a collaborative project with Drs. Marilyn Parsons (SBRI) and Asif Mohammed and Pawan Malhotra (ICGEB) on identification and characterization of unique small GTP binding proteins involved in vesicular trafficking in apicomplexa.
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