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Saguna Verma, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
John A. Burns School of Medicine


Phone: 808-692-1662
Office: BSB 325C
Email: saguna [at] hawaii.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Bio

Education
1985 B.S. (Zoology, Chemistry, Botany) Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India
1988 M.S. (Biochemistry) Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India
1994 Ph.D. (Biochemistry) Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India

Positions and Employment
1989-1991 Junior Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences, Indore, India
1992-1993 Senior Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences, Indore, India
1994-1999 Project Scientist, Genes and Proteins Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
2000-2001 Guest Lecturer, Vaid’s Institute, New Delhi, India
2003-2005 Junior Researcher, Retrovirology Research Laboratory, Department Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
2005-present Assistant Professor, Department Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii

Awards and Fellowships
1985 Merit Scholarship in B.Sc. by the Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India
1989-1993 University Grants Commission-Council of Science and Industrial Research (UGC-CSIR) and Lecturer Eligibility Fellowship, India
1992 Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, India (MPCST) YOUNG SCIENTIST, Merit certificate in 7th Young Scientist conference organized by Council of Science and Technology, India
1992 Travel Award from CSIR, India, to attend the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Anaheim, CA
2004 Travel Award from the Retrovirology and Opportunistic Infections Society to attend the Eleventh Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, San Francisco, CA
2005 Hawaii State-Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) Travel Award to attend the Eighth International Symposium on Kawasaki Disease, San Diego, CA

Research Keywords: Neurovirology, neuroinflammation, West Nile virus, flaviviruses


Selected Publications

Grants

  • Grant No / Title: R21AI129465 / Under Attack: Modulation of the Blood-Testes Barrier by Zika Virus
    Status / Agency: Awarded / NIH/NIAID
    Start Date / End Date: 08 November 2016 / 31 October 2018