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Research Interests and Participating Faculty
For information on currently funded fellowships, click here. For information on potential projects, click here.
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI)
Faculty Name Research Area Project Areas Gerard Cangelosi Molecular biology, epidemiology, and diagnostics Intrinsic drug resistance in Mycobacterium avium and M. tuberculosis. Molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases Patrick Duffy Vaccine antigen discovery Vaccines for pregnancy malaria and severe childhood malaria (field and laboratory studies) Michal Fried Malaria vaccines and biomarkers Parasite adhesion, Pregnancy malaria vaccines, Malaria biomarkers Malcolm Gardner Plasmodium genome Function of the apicoplast in Plasmodium and related parasite, Identification of vaccine candidate antigens Stefan Kappe Malaria parasite sporozoite and liver stage biology Sporozoite host cell invasion, liver stage-hepatocyte interactions, liver stage vaccine, live attenuated vaccine Peter Myler Genome biology Transcription in Leishmania Marilyn Parsons Cell biology Trypanosomatid protein kinases; protein targeting to the apicoplast Molecular genetics and biochemistry Mycobacteria, tuberculosis, drug discovery, latency, hypoxia, secretion Vaccine antigen discovery Function of PfEMP1 Kenneth Stuart Molecular biology and drug discovery Trypanosomatid mitochondrial function and RNA editing Ruobing Wang Malaria vaccines Design, production and testing of malaria vaccines, Identification of novel antigens, Pre-erythrocytic stages of malaria parasites
University of Washington (UW)
Faculty Name Research Area Project Areas Molecular biology and biochemistry of trypanosomatid parasites Antiparasitic drug-target identification and validation; antiparasitic drug development, including pharmacology Cell Biology Chlamydial Pathogenesis Murali Krisna Kaja Immunology Immunological memory Immunology Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis Malaria drug discovery Determinants of drug sensitivity and resistance in Plasmodium falciparum; New technologies for studying severe malaria. Computational biology Protein and proteome structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution Immunology T regulatory cells and tuberculosis; Attenuated Listeria strains as vaccine vehicles for tuberculosis Immunology, Biochemistry, Structural biology Drug Development for Malaria, Trypansomiasis, and Leishmaniasis, signalling, and differentiation of Protozoan Parasites, Immunology of syphilis Innate immunity, adjuvant discovery Regulation of T cell effector function
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Faculty Name Research Area Project Areas Molecular and cell biology, Genomics Entamoeba histolytica calcium signaling pathways, genome analysis and functional element prediction Structural biology NMR spectroscopy, Molecular dynamics, Drug design Molecular parasitology/ biochemistry Plasmodium falciparum DNA replication and cell cycle regulation Molecular parasitology Chemotherapy, drug resistance, vaccine development, Leishmania Gene regulation Role of Iron in Leishmania -macrophage interaction. Immunology / Immunotoxicology Adaptive and innate immune responses in lung, modulation by pollutants
The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) - New Delhi
Faculty Name Research Area Project Areas Cell biology, vaccines Red cell invasion, cytoadherence, malaria vaccine development Molecular and malaria parasite biology Functional genomic studies in malaria parasites using gene-knock out and RNAi technologies Malaria parasite biology Identification and characterization of vaccine antigens/drug targets and protein targeting in Plasmodium K. Natarajan TB Immunology Modulation of immune functions of DCs by the Mtb secretory proteins Vaccine antigen discovery Mycobacterial (Mtb) secretory proteins-macrophage interaction Amit Sharma Malaria Structural and computational biology
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