ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases / Cardiology: Division of Cardiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport Beginning July 2011 Residency in Internal Medicine (Categorical) LSUHSC, Shreveport , 2008 2011 Chief Resident, Dept of Medicine Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Graduate program (MS) in Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, MMBB University of Idaho. Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S) 2002 NTR University of Health Sciences, India (Dec 02) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: ResearchAssociate:UniversityofMassachusettsMedicalSchool,DepartmentOfPathology, Project: Longitudinal and cross sectional studies of CD8 T cell immunity of HLA-A2 individuals to Influenza A invariant epitope M1 (58-66) Published Results in the Journal of Immunology GraduateResearchAssistant:UniversityofIdaho. DepartmentofMolecularbiology,Microbiologyand Biochemistry, (Aug 04- June 06). Project: Proteomic analysis of purified human nuclear pore complex (NPC) proteins and studying alterations during infection with Picornaviruses. Determine if NUP98 degradation by infection with Picornaviruses is enough to disrupt the nucleo-cytoplasmic transport. Published Results in the Journal of Virology PUBLICATIONS: Park N Katikaneni P.K Skern T Gustin K.E. Differential Targeting of Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins in Poliovirus-infected Cells. Journal of Virology, February 2008, p. 1647-1655, Vol. 82, No. 4 Peddi P, Francisco D C, Hair J M, Katikaneni P K, Cecil A M, Flood B A, Sigounas A, Gergakilas A. Role of DNA-PKCs in the processing of double stranded breaks and oxidative clustered DNA lesions in the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7. North Carolina Academy of Sciences. March 2007 www.ncacadsci.org/pdf/2007Program.pdf.
