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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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