Unwalla, Hoshang Graduate Faculty

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  • Hoshang Jehangir Unwalla obtained his Ph.D. at the National Institute of Immunology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. He was recruited as a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. John Rossi at the Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte CA. As a post-doctoral fellow, his research involved designing gene therapy approaches to suppress HIV replication. During his post-doctoral fellowship, he was awarded the prestigious Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) fellowship, one of the four awarded worldwide that cycle.

    In 2008, he moved to the University of Miami as Research Assistant Professor, to develop a core facility for aptamers in Immunotherapy. Dr. Unwalla developed an interest in HIV and lung disease and in 2009 he branched his area of research to pulmonary medicine with a goal towards developing research projects in pulmonary complications in smokers and HIV patients. He has received funding from the American Lung Association (ALA) and Florida Department of Health and is currently funded by Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Defense to support his research.

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  • Hoshang Unwalla

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