Editorial Board Member - JVSAH
Renukaradhya J. Gourapura
Associate ProfessorFood Animal Health Research Program,OARDC
The Ohio State University
United States
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Renukaradhya J. Gourapura interests include understanding mucosal immunology in the respiratory tract of pigs and other species of food animals, host-pathogen interactions and pathogenesis, identification of viral immune evasion mechanisms and development of mucosal vaccines. Elucidate mucosal immune evasion mechanisms of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus and influenza virus. He is involved in identification of potential mucosal candidate adjuvants of bacterial origin and other delivery methods to develop novel mucosal vaccines against infectious diseases of food animals. To develop a suitable mucosal killed viral vaccine delivery system, he is evaluating the biodegradable and biocompatible nanotechnology based approach in the respiratory tract of pigs. In addition, recently he discovered invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells in pigs and in particular in their lungs. iNKT cell has been identified as a potent immune potentiator capable of inducing heterologous protection to influenza virus in murine models. Currently, he is evaluating the methods to induce NKT cell-mediated cross-protective immunity to a killed swine influenza virus vaccine in pigs.
Other Editorial Board Members - JVSAH
Andrzej Wernicki
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
University of Life Sciences
Poland
Monique Mancuso
Coastal Marine Environment Institute (IAMC)
National Research Council (CNR)
Italy
Cheryl S. Rosenfeld
Biomedical Sciences
University of Missouri
United States
Diana L. Eubanks
Chief, Community Veterinary Services
Mississippi State University
United States
Korinn Saker
College of Veterinary Medicine
North Carolina State University
United States
Margaret L. Khaitsa
Department of Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences
North Dakota State University
United States
David E. Gerrard
Department of Animal & Poultry Sciences
Virginia Tech
United States
Jing Yang
Department of Comparative Biosciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
TANYA D. GRAHAM
Veterinary Pathologist
South Dakota State University
United States
Kelly A Brayton
Department of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology
Washington State University
United States