Vandana Ahuja-Miller
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Vandana Ahuja-Miller
Assistant Professor
Department Of Biological Sciences
Contact Info:
Office: STC 374
McNeil Science & Technology Center
Voice: 215.596.7591
Fax: 215.596.8710
Email: v.miller@usciences.edu
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Training and Degrees
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 1995
Ph. D., Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 9/1990-9/1994
Ph. D., Microbiology and Immunology, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA 8/1988 to 8/1990
Post-graduate Diploma in Medical Microbiology, Delhi University, New Delhi, India 1988
MBBS, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India, 1985
BS (Pre-Med), Hindu College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India 1978
Prior Positions
Teaching Assistant, Microbiology and Immunology, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA 1990
Resident and Instructor, Microbiology and Immunology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India, 1/1985 to 6/1987
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Society for Microbiology
American Public Health Association
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Research Interests
Macrophage function in bacterial infections
Expression and Role of adenosine receptors on Neutrophils in bacterial infections.
Selected Recent Publications
Inhibition of Plasmodium falciparum in vitro by Eicosanoids (Poster Number 5579, Poster Session on Infectious Diseases in FASEB at Anaheim, California, April 5-9, 1992. Co-authors: A. Brooks, W. Weidanz)
Antibiotic Sensitivity: Best Laboratory Exercises (ASM conference for Undergraduate Educators, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 21-23, 2004Co-authors: J. Johnson, T. Baumstark)
Characterization of the A3 adenosine receptor profile of HL-60 promyelocytes during maturation and activation, (AIBS Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, May 12-13 2008, Co-authors: Stacey Gorski and William Law.)