MMI's Prakash Srinivasan Promoted to Associate Professor
MMI's Prakash Srinivasan was recently promoted to Associate Professor
Prakash Srinivasan, PhD, MSc, a faculty member in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology has been promoted to Associate Professor. Srinivasan studies how malaria parasites enter host cells and applies findings to develop vaccines that will prevent disease.
Srinivasan grew up in India and earned his PhD in Genetics at Case Western Reserve University, studying malaria parasite transmission in the Jacobs-Lorena laboratory. As a postdoc in Lou Miller’s group at the NIH, he identified a novel Plasmodium host-cell invasion mechanism and leveraged that discovery to develop a promising vaccine candidate.
Srinivasan joined the Bloomberg School as an assistant professor in 2016, the same year the Srinivasan Lab was established.
Srinivasan has published 40 research articles and reviews including his most recent work in and .