Shivaprakash Gangappa, DVM, PhD

Academic Appointment
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Telephone
404.727.4624

Education

• DVM, 1981-86, MVSc, 1988-90, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India
• PhD (Viral Immunology), Department of Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1994-99

Postgraduate Training

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 1999-2002
• ASM/NCID Fellow, Influenza Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 2002-03

Honors and Awards

• Recipient, Basic Science Faculty Development Grant, American Society of Transplantation, 2007
• American Society for Microbiology/National Center for Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 2002-2004

Research Interests

• Investigation of novel immunotherapeutic strategies for transplantation tolerance in non-human primate and murine models
• Mechanisms of viral latency and antiviral immunity in costimulation blockade-induced transplantation tolerance

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
2003

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