Gaya Amarasinghe, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of biochemisry and molecular biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received three grants from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
They include: a five-year, $2.2 million grant for research titled “Mechanisms of Evasion of the Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses to Filoviruses”; a five-year, $1.45 million grant for research titled “Therapeutics Targeting Filoviral Interferon-Antagonist and Replication Functions – Project 1”; and a five-year, $1.1 million grant for research titled “Comparative Immunology of Rousettus Aegyptiacus Reservoir with Filovirus.”