Staff Scientist, Helminth Immunology Section
Scientific Director, NIAID ICER India
Education:
M.B.B.S., 1993, Govt. Kilpauk Medical College/ University of Madras, India
Ph.D., 1999, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Biography
Dr. Subash Babu earned his medical degree in 1993 from the Govt. Kilpauk Medical College/ University of Madras, India. He was awarded a WHO/TDR Senior Research Fellowship (1993 – 1994), and worked as a medical researcher in Chennai. He then earned a Ph.D. in immunology (1994 – 1999) from the University of Connecticut. For his doctoral work, he received the Lepow Memorial Award for the best graduate thesis at the same university. Following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship (1999 – 2000) at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Babu joined NIAID as a visiting fellow (2000 – 2005) in Dr. Thomas Nutman’s lab and conducted original research on the human immune response in filarial infections. In 2003, he was appointed as a staff scientist in the NIAID ICER program in India to continue helminth infections research work in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Since 2006, he has served as the scientific director of NIAID ICER India and works on the epidemiology and immunology of infectious diseases prevalent in India, including helminth infections, TB, HIV, and COVID-19. Dr. Babu is a principal investigator in the RePORT India consortium. He is also on numerous advisory committees and editorial boards and has authored over 225 papers and book chapters.