![]() | Kunal Rambhia, MSSenior AnalystExpertise: Biotechnology, Healthcare Preparedness, Pandemic Influenza |
Mr. Rambhia is a Senior Analyst at the Center for Biosecurity . He conducts research in support of Center programs, with a focus on hospital and healthcare preparedness, biotechnology, pandemic influenza, infectious disease agents, and international biosecurity issues. Mr. Rambhia is Co-managing Editor of Biosecurity News Today, a daily biosecurity news update. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. Prior to joining the Center, Mr. Rambhia worked as an intern for 454 Life Sciences, where he was involved in DNA sequencing projects. In 2005 he traveled to Ghana as part of the Unite for Sight program, providing basic eye care, access to surgery, and eye health education in rural areas of the country. He also served as a member of AmeriCorps in 2004. Mr. Rambhia obtained a master of science degree in biotechnology at the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in 2011. Mr. Rambhia earned a BS degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology and in political science from Yale University in 2007. His thesis was a study of light-dependent plant development with a focus on ubiquitin-directed proteolysis in Arabidopsis thaliana. |