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Prasanna Jagannathan

Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbiology and Immunology
Department:
Medicine - Med/Infectious Diseases
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease (2011)
Certificate, University of California, San Francisco, Advanced Training in Clinical Research
Postdoctoral, University of California, San Francisco, Immunology
Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, Infectious Diseases
Residency, University of California, San Francisco, Internal Medicine
M.D., Harvard Medical School, Medicine
Mentor Training Status
Mentor Training Status: Creating Inclusive Spaces of Belonging - Faculty Workshop Series - 2022 - Stanford University
Prasanna Jagannathan
I am an Infectious Diseases physician-scientist with a research program in human immunology of malaria and clinical trials of immune modulatory interventions. Our group has been conducting detailed longitudinal cohort studies in children and pregnant women in order to study how repeated malaria shapes the cellular immune response. We are also studying how malaria control interventions such as antimalarial chemoprevention and vector control shape the acquisition and/or maintenance of protective immunity to malaria. We have expanded this work to not only include studying the mechanisms driving naturally acquired immunity to malaria, but other infectious diseases, including SARS CoV-2. We have also lead and/or participated in studies evaluating therapeutic strategies for patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.

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(650) 724-5343