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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

Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

One Children's Hospital Drive
4401 Penn Ave., Suite Floor 9

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-7438 Phone

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Email shabaana.khader@chp.edu

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Active Research Projects

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.