PRASANNA JAGANNATHAN M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University

Dr. Jagannathan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with a research program in human immunology of malaria and clinical trials of immune modulatory interventions. His group has been conducting detailed longitudinal cohort studies in order to study how repeated Plasmodium infections shapes both the innate immune and CD4+ T cell compartments in children using single cell immune profiling techniques. His group  is also studying the impact of antimalarial chemoprevention on pediatric immune development, and the dynamics of malaria-specific immune responses following effective vector control measures.  He is funded by the US National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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