Sangha’s
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Sangha Mitra, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate, Dept of Molecular and Cell biology The human body has always
intrigued me. The diverse mechanisms in our body provide ways to recognize
foreign organisms such as viruses and bacteria and offer resistance to
infections. It is our enzymes, proteins, receptors, antibodies
that work everyday and every night to maintain and sustain the way of
life we so frequently take for granted. Our body’s adaptation to the harsh
world is quite extraordinary. However, our defenses are
breached and we do fall sick. It is then we need additional help in
form of medications and antibiotics to cure us. My research interests are drug target
identification, target validation, drug development, understanding
interaction of potential drug candidates with cellular signaling pathways and
overcoming cellular toxicity. With the correct medical influence, the body may one
day be impenetrable to disease. I believe that there are still many new and
exciting discoveries waiting to be found, hidden
within nature, and of beneficial use to humans and the environment. I want to be a part of the next discovery. |
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