Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases & Practice
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Biography

Dr. Karthigayan Gunalan is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National institute of Health (NIH). He has research experience for over ten years working with different species of Plasmodium. He started his scientific research career in malaria in 2005 as junior research fellow in Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He received his doctoral degree in Molecular Parasitology from Nanyang Technological University in 2012. During his research career he has published several research articles. He was awarded Young Scientist award by FAOBMB. Karthigayan also presented his work in several international conferences. He completed his B.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from University of Madras and his M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from Bharathidasan University, Tamilnadu, India.

Research Interest

Plasmodium is the causative agent of Malaria. Till date, there is no effective vaccine to prevent malaria. The complexity of Plasmodium was underestimated for more than a century costing over several billions of lives in around the world and concentrated in Africa and Asia. Several parasite factors are involved to gain entry into the host cell and also to escape from the host immune system. My research interest is to understand host pathogen interactions and develop efficient intervention strategies to prevent invasion.

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