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About My Research
Center/Research Area Affiliation
Biography
Dr. Rajaiya works to understand the intracellular trafficking of viruses into cells. She applies her expertise in molecular biology and her background in infectious disease pathogenesis to questions in adenoviral pathogenesis, and expands her expertise to cell signaling upon adenoviral infection. Her present work addresses very basic phenomena in viral entry and intracellular trafficking during infection. Dr. Rajaiya also is involved in complete genome analysis of adenoviruses. This project seeks to elucidate transcriptomes and proteomes of human adenoviruses most closely associated with corneal infections.
Education
1998: PhD, Molecular Biology of Mycobacteria, National Institute of Immunology, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
Postgraduate Training
2001: Research Associate, Transcription Factors, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
2005: Associate Research Scientist, B cell development, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
2006: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Virology, Dean McGee Eye Institute, Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Academic Appointments
2014-present: Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
2008-2014: Instructor in Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical Sch
2006-2008: Instructor in Ophthalmology, Dean McGee Eye Institute, Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Professional Memberships
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
American Society of Virology
Honors
1996: WHO Exchange Student Award, World Health Organization, Medical Research Council Tuberculosis Center, Hammersmith, London, UK
2015: Excellence in Teaching, Harvard Medical School, Molecular and Cellular Basis of Medicine (IN751.0)
