Health Science Campus - 2015 Defenses
Congratulations! to Jennifer Ohtola, Ph.D., Doctoral Candidate, IIT track, Biomedical Sciences concentration
in Infection, Immunity & Transplantation. Jennifer successfully defended her Ph.D.
thesis, "Pneumococcal Vaccination in Aging HIV-Infected Individuals" on June 19, 2015.
(Mentor: M.A. Julie Westerink, MD)
Anita Sridhar Iyer, Ph.D.
Congratulations! to Anita Sridhar Iyer, Ph.D., Doctoral Candidate, IIT track, in Biomedical Sciences
concentration in Infection, Immunity and Transplantation. Anita successfully defended
her Ph.D. thesis, "Response to pneumococcal-polysaccharide vaccine PPV23 in HIV-positive individuals" on May 15, 2015.
(Mentor: Julie Westerink, M.D.)
Padmapriya Sekar, Ph.D.
Congratulations! to Padmapriya Sekar, Ph.D., Doctoral Candidate, IIT track, in Biomedical Sciences concentration in Infection,
Immunity and Transplantation. Padmapriya successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis, "The effects of key motility and chemotaxis genes for Borrelia burgdorferi dissemination
and evasion of immune clearance in murine tissues" on April 30, 2015.
(Mentor: R. Mark Wooten, Ph.D.)
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