Prof. Shailendra K. Saxena is the Vice Dean, and Professor & Head at the Centre for Advance Research (CFAR), King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow in India. His research interests are to understand the molecular mechanisms of host defense during human viral infections and to develop new predictive, preventive, and therapeutic strategies for them using JEV, HIV, and oncogenic viruses as a model, via stem cell and cell culture technologies. He has received many awards and honors including the Fogarty International Center, NIH (USA) MERIT Award, and named as “Global Leader in Science” by The Scientist magazine (USA) and “International Opinion Leader / Expert” involved in the vaccination for JE by IPIC (UK).
Dr. Shailendra K Saxena is interested in the fields of understand the epidemiology and molecular mechanisms of host defense during human viral infections and to develop new predictive, preventive, and therapeutic strategies for them using JEV, HIV, and oncogenic viruses as a model, via stem cell and cell culture technologies.
