Shashank Gupta
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Biography
Shashank Gupta completed his graduate studies from ICGEB, New Delhi, India in 2009 and moved to Johns Hopkins University as a Postdoctoral fellow in early 2010. Currently, he is a Research Associate with HHMI and working on tuberculosis field at Johns Hopkins University. His studies with Mycobacterium tuberculosis will help understand the underlying mechanisms of host-pathogen interaction with special focus on mycobacterial pathogenesis and the other pathways involved in tuberculosis. His recent studies with efflux pump inhibitors have shown that verapamil can be used to accelerate both the bactericidal and the sterilizing activity of standard tuberculosis treatment.
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