Shabaana Khader

Dr. Shabaana A. Khader

Khader@uchicago.edu

Dr. Shabaana Khader received her PhD in Biotechnology from Madurai Kamaraj University, India where she studied host-pathogen interactions during the mycobacterial disease, leprosy. Dr. Khader then carried out her Post-doctoral training at the Trudeau Institute, NY, where she continued studying host immune responses to another globally relevant mycobacterial disease, tuberculosis. During her stay at the Trudeau Institute, Dr. Khader demonstrated a critical role for the cytokine Interleukin-17 in vaccine-induced immunity to tuberculosis, as well as described seminal roles for IL-12 cytokines in tuberculosis. Dr. Khader then joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2007 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics where her lab continued to study the role of cytokines in immunity to intracellular pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Francisella tularensis. In 2013, Dr. Khader and her research team moved to the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the Washington University in St. Louis, in the Department of Molecular Microbiology. There she served as the Program Director of the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Program and Interim Chair from 2018-2019. Recently, She has been appointed as Professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Chicago, Biological Sciences Divison where she continues to reshape understanding of tuberculosis Immunology.

Office address:

Cummings Life Sciences Building

920 East 58th Street

CLSC 1007

Phone:(314) 286-1590
Fax:(314) 362-1232