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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.

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Monika Chugh, a
graduate student at ICGEB in the labs of Drs.
Asif Mohmmed
and
Pawan Malhotra, is currently working on a collaborative project with Drs. Mohmmed and Malhotra and
Dr. Ken Stuart at Seattle BioMed on
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| Imran
Siddiqui, a
graduate student in the lab of
Dr. Pawan Sharma at ICGEB, is currently working on a
collaborative project with Dr. Sharma and
Dr. Kevin Urdahl at the University of Washington
studying T cell immune function in tuberculosis.
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Ankur Sharma, a
graduate student at JNU in the lab of
Dr. Rentala Madhubala, came to Seattle in 2009 to
work on a collaborative project with Dr. Madhubala and
Drs. Ruobing Wang and
Peter Myler at Seattle BioMed on
a high-throughput
genomic and immunological approach to rapidly characterize
potential vaccine candidates using Leishmania genome
sequence.
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Krishna Kishore Inampudi, a
postdoctoral scientist in the lab of
Dr.
Alok Bhattacharya, came to Seattle from 2008-2009 to work 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.
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Ashwani Sharma, a
graduate
student in the lab of
Dr. Amit Sharma,
came to Seattle in 2008 to work on a collaborative project with Dr. Shama and
Dr.
Stefan Kappe (Seattle BioMed) on structure and function of proteins
important for the development of the liver stage of Plasmodium.
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| Bhavna Chawla, a
graduate
student at JNU in the lab of
Dr. Rentala Madhubala, came to Seattle in 2008 to
work on a collaborative project with
Dr. Madhubala and
Dr. Kenneth Stuart at Seattle BioMed to investigate mechanisms of
resistance to drugs in Leishmania.
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