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Tamara Bhandarai hails from
South Pasadena, CA and
received her undergraduate education at the Yale University during
which time she conducted research on microbial proteomics. After
graduation, Tamara served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal and
completed an M.P.H. degree in Infectious Diseases at U.C. Berkeley
School of Public Health during which time she was awarded a James
Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases Fellowship from the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control to study the linkage between in utero infection and
autism. Before joining the BMS Graduate program at UCSD, she
worked on meningococcal vaccine development in the laboratory of
Gregory Moe at Oakland Children's Research Institute. Tamara's current research examines novel pharmacological
approaches to boost innate immune defenses against antibiotic-resistant
bacterial pathogens such as MRSA, placing a special emphasis on
targeting the activities of the hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1)
transcriptional regulator. Tamara is supported in part by the
UCSD Pharmacology Training Grant. |