Biography:
Dr. Prabha Chandrasekaran, M.Sc., Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Study Director (contractor) at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases biosafety level 4 facility. Dr. Chandrasekaran’s role is to support clinical research studies pertaining to high-consequence and emerging pathogens in international settings. She designs and executes the diagnostic/assay countermeasures and develops and deploys high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics approaches towards outbreak preparedness. Dr. Chandrasekaran is a multidisciplinary scientist with over 40 peer-reviewed research publications and has served as a principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on several projects.
Title : Assay identifies rVSV?G-ZEBOV-GP vaccination status and correlates Ebola virus glycoprotein with vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus nucleoprotein antibodies