Takuya Tada

Postdoctoral Fellow

I have been working in the NYU as a Post-doctoral research fellow since 2016.

I received my Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Tokyo in 2014. From 2012 to 2015, I worked at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan. My research interests are the relationship between HIV and host factors and immunity. Now I develop  strong lentiviral vector vaccines against HIV, LCMV and cancer using mice models as well as exploring therapy against SAR-CoV-2.

Ramanjit kaur

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received my Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2018. During my PhD, I identified and characterized various antiviral molecules against alphaviruses. Under the Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellowship, I am currently investigating the basis of neurodegenerative disease using immunology and gene expression studies.

Belinda Dcosta

Assistant Research Scientist

I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in biotechnology from University of Mumbai, India as well as a M.S. in Biology from Texas Tech University. During my Masters, I identified and characterized potential anticancer agents. I am currently developing therapy against SARS-CoV-2 and testing effectiveness of current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines against variants.

Hao Zhou

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received my Ph.D.  in Molecular Biology from the Aarhus University, Denmark in 2019. I then moved to USA to work as a Postdoc at Umass Medical School during 2020. I am currently exploring a new potent therapeutic microbody against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro and in vivo and testing neutralization efficacy of  diverse vaccines elicited serum and monoclonal antibodies against newly emerging  SARS-CoV-2 variants of concerns.

Paola Leone

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received my Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience in 2020 at Valencia University,Spain. My scientific interest is focused on infiltration of T lymphocytes in brain, and consequent induction of neuroinflammation which has lead me to study infiltration of CD3 in LCMV infected mice and possible related cognitive alterations.