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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 |
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Gerard Cangelosi |
Molecular biology,
epidemiology, and diagnostics |
Intrinsic drug resistance in
Mycobacterium avium and M. tuberculosis. Molecular
diagnosis of infectious diseases |
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Patrick Duffy |
Vaccine
antigen discovery |
Vaccines for pregnancy
malaria and severe childhood malaria (field and
laboratory studies) |
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Michal Fried |
Malaria vaccines and
biomarkers |
Parasite adhesion, Pregnancy malaria
vaccines, Malaria biomarkers |
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Malcolm Gardner |
Plasmodium
genome |
Function of the apicoplast in
Plasmodium and related parasite, Identification of
vaccine candidate antigens |
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Stefan Kappe |
Malaria parasite
sporozoite and liver stage biology |
Sporozoite host cell invasion, liver
stage-hepatocyte interactions, liver stage vaccine, live
attenuated vaccine |
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Peter Myler |
Genome
biology |
Transcription in
Leishmania |
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Marilyn Parsons |
Cell
biology |
Trypanosomatid protein
kinases; protein targeting to the apicoplast |
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David Sherman
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Molecular genetics and
biochemistry |
Mycobacteria, tuberculosis, drug
discovery, latency, hypoxia, secretion |
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Joesph Smith
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Vaccine
antigen discovery |
Function of PfEMP1 |
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Kenneth Stuart |
Molecular
biology and drug discovery |
Trypanosomatid
mitochondrial function and RNA editing |
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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 |
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Fred Buckner
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Molecular
biology and biochemistry of trypanosomatid parasites |
Antiparasitic
drug-target identification and validation; antiparasitic
drug development, including pharmacology |
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LeeAnn Campbell
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Cell
Biology |
Chlamydial
Pathogenesis |
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Murali Krisna Kaja |
Immunology |
Immunological memory |
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Lalita Ramakrishnan
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Immunology |
Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis |
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Pradip Rathod
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Malaria
drug discovery |
Determinants of drug
sensitivity and resistance in Plasmodium falciparum; New
technologies for studying severe malaria. |
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Ram Samudrala
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Computational biology |
Protein and proteome
structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution |
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Walt Stamm
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Kevin Urdahl
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Immunology
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T regulatory cells and
tuberculosis; Attenuated Listeria strains as vaccine
vehicles for tuberculosis |
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Wes Van Voorhis
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Immunology, Biochemistry,
Structural biology |
Drug Development for Malaria,
Trypansomiasis, and Leishmaniasis, signalling, and
differentiation of Protozoan Parasites, Immunology of
syphilis |
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Christopher Wilson
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Innate immunity, adjuvant
discovery |
Regulation of T cell
effector function |
Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU)
| Faculty
Name |
Research Area |
Project Areas |
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Alok Bhattacharya
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Molecular and cell
biology, Genomics |
Entamoeba histolytica calcium
signaling pathways, genome analysis and functional
element prediction |
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Sudha Cowsik
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Structural biology |
NMR spectroscopy, Molecular dynamics,
Drug design |
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Suman Dhar
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Molecular parasitology/
biochemistry |
Plasmodium falciparum DNA replication
and cell cycle regulation |
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Rentala Madhubala
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Molecular parasitology |
Chemotherapy, drug resistance,
vaccine development, Leishmania |
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Chinmay Mukhopadhyay
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Gene regulation |
Role of Iron in Leishmania
-macrophage interaction. |
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Rajiv Saxena
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Immunology
/ Immunotoxicology |
Adaptive and innate
immune responses in lung, modulation by pollutants
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The International
Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) -
New Delhi
| Faculty
Name |
Research Area |
Project Areas |
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Chetan Chitnis
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Cell biology, vaccines |
Red cell invasion, cytoadherence,
malaria vaccine development |
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Pawan Malhotra
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Molecular and
malaria parasite biology |
Functional genomic studies in malaria
parasites using gene-knock out and RNAi technologies |
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Asif Mohammed
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Malaria parasite
biology |
Identification and
characterization of vaccine antigens/drug targets and
protein targeting in
Plasmodium |
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K. Natarajan |
TB Immunology |
Modulation of immune functions of DCs
by the Mtb secretory proteins |
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Pawan Sharma
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Vaccine antigen discovery |
Mycobacterial (Mtb) secretory
proteins-macrophage interaction |
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Amit Sharma |
Malaria |
Structural and computational biology |
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