Topics and Expertise: immunosuppressants

Bhushan Kharbikar, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Professors Qizhi Tang, PhD, and Tejal Desai, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious JDRF Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship. JDRF is the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research.

Bacteria generate small molecules to fend off their fellow microbes. They also produce molecules that affect the response of host organisms—including humans—to their presence. Such molecules have been a major source of antibiotics, immunosuppressants, anti-cancer agents, and other drugs.