Preetha Balasubramanian Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Led preclinical research in collaboration with large pharma company (Sanofi), leveraging Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology to identify novel biomarkers within the extrafollicular CD4 T cell pathway. Insights.
• Collaborated with lead author in Preclinical research work funded by Lupus research alliance that identified novel and synergistic pathway involving interferon (IFN) and the NLRP3 inflammasome in SLE resulted in.
• Initiated and participated in research on 30 SLE patient samples, unveiling mitochondrial dysfunction in SLE red blood cells. Published in Cell, offering diagnostic and therapeutic insights.
• Spearheaded innovation by collaborating with the Flow Cytometry Manager to enhance cell recovery rates which led to improved outcomes in several research studies.
• Routine 1:1 presentation to KOL and HCP in Weill Cornell medicine in the pediatric department. Participated in Journal club presentations, scientific presentations on monthly basis to the pediatric department in Weill.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Graduate Research Assistant, NYU Grossman School of Medicine (Prof. Catarina Hioe Lab) 2011 – 2017
• Demonstrated strong written and oral communication and presentation skills of 3 research manuscripts, 5 posters, and 2 oral presentations in Immunology and Virology conferences.
• Pioneered cross-functional collaborations with structural biology groups at academic centers; Icahn School of Medicine and NYU Langone medical center and procured VAX003 and VAX004 clinical vaccine trial samples.
• Led two in-vitro studies and acquired Macaque samples from Oregon National Primate Research Center that resulted in first authored publications in Nature Scientific Reports and Vaccine

• Research Assistant, NYU Grossman School of Medicine (Prof. Michael Dustin Lab) 2009 - 2011
• Characterized the effect of PKC theta inhibitor on Regulatory T cell Migration (MS thesis research). This pathway is being evaluated for rheumatoid arthritis.

• Junior research fellow, National institute of mental health and Neuroscience, India June-Dec 2007 Advisor -Prof.Dr.Sarada Subramanian
• Evaluation of the potential of PrPSc specific antibodies in diagnosis of prion diseases”. The project focused on how antibodies to prion protein repeat motif can recognize the pathological prion protein based on its.
• The result highlights the ability of antibodies to distinguish different conformations of a protein. This work was published in the Indian Journal of Experimental Biology.

Master'S Degree, Biology, General

Masters In Human Genetics, Human/Medical Genetics