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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.

 

 

 

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 novel vaccine immunogen design.

 

 

 


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.

 

 

 

 


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.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

 


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.