Uma Sriram, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

About Me

Research Interests

  • Role of Type I interferons in neuropsychiatric lupus
  • Role of kallikrein-kinin system in regulating Type I interferons in systemic and neuropsychiatric lupus
  • Regulation of dendritic cells, microglia and blood-brain barrier functions by the kallikrein-kinin system
Education, Training & Credentials

Educational Background

  • Postdoctoral fellowship, Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
  • Postdoctoral fellowship, Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • PhD, Immunology, National Institute for Tuberculosis Research, Chennai, India
  • MS, Zoology, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, India

Memberships

  • American Association of Immunologists