PhD, MSc - Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Honors & Awards
2024 American Association of Immunology-Thermo Fisher Meritorious Career Award
2023 Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2023 Rosalind Franklin Society Special Award in Science
2023 The most highly cited researchers in the world (Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science) - with citations in the top 1% in Immunology over the past decade (top 0.1% of all researchers) - awarded 7 years running (2017–2023)
2022 Outstanding Scientist Award, AAIS in Cancer Research
2021 Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology
2020 R35 Outstanding Investigator Award, National Cancer Institute
2019 Jurgen Manchot Research Professorship
2018 Seymour & Vivian Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon and Cytokine Research
2017 MERIT Award, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
2017 Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award, American Society for Microbiology
2017 Outstanding macrophage researcher Dolph O. Adams award, Society for Leukocyte Biology
2017 Elected Foreign Fellow of the Telangana Academy of Sciences
2017 Elected to the Society of Mucosal Immunology Board of Councilors
2016 Chair, National Institute of Health, Innate Immunity and Inflammation Study Section
2016 MERIT Award, National Institute of Health
2015 Vince Kidd Memorial Mentor of the Year Award
2015 Elected Chair, American Society for Microbiology, Immunology
2015 Investigator Award from the American Association of Immunology-BD Biosciences
2002 The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Outstanding Post-Graduate Research
2002 Outstanding Young Scientist Award
Research Interests
Innate immunity
Inflammasomes and inflammatory cell death, PANoptosis
