by Hannah Buckelew
Praveen K. Dubey, Ph.D., a member of the laboratory of Prasanna Krishnamurthy, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), has been awarded a Career Development Award by the American Heart Association (AHA) and has been promoted to instructor in BME. His research focuses on mitochondrial biology in sepsis and post-sepsis syndrome (PSS).
The Career Development Award supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist. The award will develop the research skills to support and greatly enhance the awardee’s chances to obtain and retain a high-quality career position.
Dubey earned his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Chaudhary Devi Lal University in Sirsa, India, and was awarded a Research Associate Fellowship from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. He later received a Kishimoto Foundation Fellowship from the Immunology Frontier Research Center at Osaka University in Japan, to study the role of Arid5a in autoimmune diseases and its regulation. Dubey conducted research on the effect of BAG3 on cardiac functions at the Cardiovascular Research Center at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before joining Krishnamurthy’s lab at UAB to study the role of OLA1 in human heart failure and its impact on cardiac remodeling and function.
With several years of experience in biomedical research, Dubey specializes in translational medicine to develop therapies using expertise in molecular biology, cell biology, immunology, genomics and RNA biology. His work aims to understand the complex interactions between cardiopulmonary and inflammatory diseases, and to identify new targets for therapeutic intervention and develop more effective treatments for conditions such as cardiovascular, inflammatory and pulmonary diseases.