Ka-Chun Wong

http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/stfprofile/kc.w.htm

Sarath C. Janga

http://www.iupui.edu/~jangalab/

Brynn E Sheehan

Gokul Swaminathan

Dr. Swaminathan received his undergraduate engineering degree, majoring in biotechnology, from SRM University, Chennai, India. Following which, he trained as a senior research fellow in the recombinant gene products group at the International center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB — a United Nations industrial Development organization), New Delhi, India. He then moved to Philadelphia, PA, to pursue his graduate education and received his Ph.D. degree in microbiology & immunology from Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. For his post-doctoral work, Dr. Swaminathan joined the Merck Research Laboratories Post-Doc Research Fellows program and trained in the vaccines discovery group at Merck & Co. Inc, West Point, PA. After 2 years of post-doc work, he accepted a senior scientist position within the same group at Merck, West Point. Soon after, Dr. Swaminathan became one of the founding members of the Merck “Exploratory Science Center” (ESC) in Cambridge, MA, where he has been an Immunology scientist for the past ~2 years. At the Merck ESC, he is working towards uncovering novel scientific paradigms that accelerate our understanding of human disease biology. In particular, he is leading projects that involve both clinical & advanced pre-clinical models, with the over-arching goal of interrogating the microbiome’s influence on susceptibility to infectious diseases and ability to respond to vaccines.

Institutional Website: https://www.merck.com/about/our-people/gokul-swaminathan.html

Sartaj Ahmad Bhat

Sunny Linnebur

Verónica Martínez Cerdeño

Katharina Schütt

Bianca Rocca

Daniel Skinner