Gyanendra Kumar
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
Biography
Gyanendra Kumar has earned his PhD from IISc, Bangalore in 2007 and then joined the Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York and worked on drug discovery for Botulinum neurotoxins. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, working on the drug discovery for influenza by targeting the endonuclease domain of viral RdRp. He has published numerous research articles on malaria, botulism and influenza and presented his work at international conferences. He serves as a Referee for several journals and is a Member of ACS, ACA, AAAS and ISIRV.