{"id":1035,"date":"2022-06-06T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgpindia.com\/fend\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:15:58","slug":"lakshmi-ramachandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fend-tb.org\/staging\/9960\/lakshmi-ramachandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakshmi Ramachandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Lakshmi Ramachandra<\/strong> became the TB Section Chief in DMID at NIAID in March 2019, and currently oversees the TB program for the Division. Dr. Ramachandra earned her PhD at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India and then joined the lab of Dr. Alexander Rudensky at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\/University of Washington, to work in the field of immunology. She then joined Dr. Clifford Harding at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) where she began studying how Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) subverts the immune response. 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