Suraiya Rasheed
Expert in protein studies of cancer and neuronal cells differential protein expression profiles of HIV infection, and biological and molecular characterization of human retroviruses involved in cancer and AIDS
Professor of Pathology, Keck School of MedicineDirector, Laboratory of Viral Oncology and AIDS Research
Expertise
- identification of AIDS virus (HIV) and
human T-cell leukemia viruses
(HTLV-I and HTLV-II) - genetic variations of HIV strains
- HIV viral load by culture and by
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
of viral RNA or DNA - molecular biology of human retroviruses
- viral and cellular gene expression
- identification of drug-resistant HIV
strains - virology of human cancers (leukemia and
lymphoma) - identifications of mutations that confer
drug resistance to HIV by DNA
nucleotide sequence analysis - viral genes and cellular oncogenes in
non-Hodgkins lymphoma and other
human cancers - cancer genomics – genome-wide gene
expression of cancer cells - proteomics – genome-wide expression
of proteins in cancer cells
Additional Information
- Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists, London
Languages
- Urdu
