Parasitology & Pathogenesis

Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram DVM, PhD, Professor & Head at University of Illinois, College of Medicine, USA. He mainly works on development of a vaccine against

lymphatic filariasis a tropical parasitic infection that causes a gruesome and disfiguring condition in the human. Second major research focus is on gene mining and functional

proteomics of schistosome and lymphatic filarial parasites. Several vaccine candidates and drug targets of the lymphatic filarial and schistosome organisms were

identified in his laboratory using a phage-display cDNA expression library screening approach.