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Shabaana Khader, PhD

Job Title Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 3
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-692-5630 Phone
412-692-6645 Fax

Education and Training

Graduate School:

1996 University of Madras, India

Post Graduate School:

2002 Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Memberships

  • American Association of Immunologists, Trainee
  • Sigma Xi : The Scientific Research Society

Awards

  • NIH Pathway to Independence K99/R00, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
  • Postdoctoral Career Development Training Grant-North East Biodefense Center, NIAID Region II Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research
  • Post Doctoral Fellowship Grant awarded by the Heiser Program for Research in Leprosy and Tuberculosis, New York Community Trust 
  • Keystone Symposia Postdoctoral Scholarship to attend the Keystone Symposia entitled “Determinants of Host resistance and susceptibility”, Keystone, Colorado,selected by Dr. Anne O’ Garra, National Institute of Medical Research, UK
  • Travel support by the Committee for Science and Technology in Developing countries (COSTED) to attend the 16th International Leprosy Congress, Salvador, Brazil
  • Travel grant by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India to attend the 16th International Leprosy Congress, Salvador, Brazil
  • Professor S. Krishnaswamy Memorial Travel Assistance Endowment-Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai for partial travel support towards the 101st American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, Orlando
  • Exchange Scholarship, Indo Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology to train under Dr. Daniel Hoessli, Department of Pathology, Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
  • Junior and Senior Research Fellowship, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India
  • National Merit Scholarship for Post Graduate Studies
  • Mother Philomene Gold Medal for overall proficiency in BSc Zoology

Publications

  • Shabaana A. Khader. G.Bell. J.E.Pearl, J.J. Fountain, J-M.Moreno, G.E.Ciley, F. Shen, S.M.Eaton, S.L.Gaffen, S.S.Swain, R.M.Locksley, T.Randall, L.Haynes and A.M.Cooper. IL-23 and IL-17 in the establishment of protective pulmonary CD4+ T cell responses after vaccination and during Mycobacterium tuberculosis challenge. Nature Immunology, Apr;8(4):369-77.
  • Shabaana A. Khader, S.Partida-Sanchez, G.Bell, D.M.Jelly-Gibbs, S.Swain, J.E.Pearl, N.Ghilardi, F.deSauvage, F.E.Lund, A.M.Cooper. IL-12p40 is required for dendritic cell migration and T cell priming following Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. J. Exp. Med. 2006. Jul 10, 203 (7): 1805-1815.
  • Shabaana A. Khader, J.E.Pearl, K.Sakamoto, L.Gilmartin, G.K.Bell, D.M.Jelly-Gibbs, N.Ghilardi, F.Sauvage and A.M.Cooper. IL-23 compensates for the absence of IL-12p70 and is essential for the IL-17 response during tuberculosis but is dispensable for protection and antigen specific IFN-g responses if IL-12p70 is available. J. Immunol. 2005. Jul 15.175(2):788-795.

    View Dr. Khader's full list of publications from PubMed.

Active Research Projects / Grants

  • Promoting immune responses capable of protecting against aerosol infection

Last Update

April 7, 2009
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