DrNitya Krishnan
Senior Teaching Fellow
Faculty of Medicine Centre - Faculty of Medicine
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- Senior Teaching FellowFaculty of Medicine Centre - Faculty of Medicine
- Commonwealth Building, Hammersmith Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Nitya is a Teaching Fellow in the BSc Medical Biosciences programme within the Faculty of Medicine. She is a Fellow of AdvanceHE.
Nitya received her PhD from the MRC, National Institute for Medical Research, where she utilised a transcriptomic approach to study the activation of dendritic cells in response to mycobacterial infections. She then joined Imperial College London to work with Dr Guy Thwaites on a project investigating how Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage influences the host's innate immune responses. She continued at Imperial College and worked with Dr Brian Robertson on various projects, including utilising novel tools for determining vaccine efficacy in a human challenge model for tuberculosis and investigating the effectiveness of drug-loaded microparticles and anti-microbial peptides for the treatment of tuberculosis.
Nitya received her PhD from the MRC, National Institute for Medical Research, where she utilised a transcriptomic approach to study the activation of dendritic cells in response to mycobacterial infections. She then joined Imperial College London to work with Dr Guy Thwaites on a project investigating how Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage influences the host's innate immune responses. She continued at Imperial College and worked with Dr Brian Robertson on various projects, including utilising novel tools for determining vaccine efficacy in a human challenge model for tuberculosis and investigating the effectiveness of drug-loaded microparticles and anti-microbial peptides for the treatment of tuberculosis.
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Senior Teaching Fellow