Suresh Kuchipudi is professor and chair of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology.
He brings to the department extensive knowledge and expertise in clinical virology and immunology. His research focuses on emerging and zoonotic viruses and their impact on global health. The overall goal of his research is to unravel the factors that govern zoonotic virus transmission and adaptation. His team is actively involved in pioneering an oncolytic viral therapy for treating human and animal cancers.
Prior to joining the School of Public Health, he was the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and acted as the interim Director of the Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory. Additionally, he worked as an assistant professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham and as an assistant professor at Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University in Tirupathi, India.
Kuchipudi publishes his work, serves as an editorial board member for several journals, and has earned several competitive research grants. He received the Research Innovator of the Year Award from Penn State University in 2022.
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