Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Gauri G. Rao received her PharmD from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2011. Her Postdoctoral training in Infectious diseases Pharmacokinetics/ Pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) was at the University at Buffalo in collaboration with Hoffmann La Roche. During her Postdoctoral training, she completed a Masters in Pharmacometrics. Dr. Rao also has a Masters in Computer Engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing. She served as an Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University at Buffalo before joining the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2016.
The main focus of Dr. Rao’s research is concentrated towards gaining an improved understanding of the host immune response during the course of bacterial infections. She has adopted a systems approach to develop mechanism based models that can incorporate the complexity of host immunodynamics and bacterial genomics in addition to drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics for designing optimized antibiotic regimens. Her other research interests include the design and development of adjuvant therapy (i.e. efflux pump inhibitors), animal and in silico models of infection for optimization of combination regimens, as strategies to counter antimicrobial resistance.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM ET
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