Prajwal Gurung, PhD
Associate Professor
Email: prajwal-gurung@uiowa.edu
Background: I was born and raised in Nepal and came to the United States in 2001 to pursue higher education. I received my PhD in 2011 from the University of Iowa under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas S. Griffith. Following my PhD, I did my postdoctoral fellowship at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital with Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti. I joined University of Iowa as an Assistant Professor in 2017.
Affiliations
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology
Iowa Inflammation Program
Lab Members
Saurabh Saini, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Prabuddha Sarkar, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hanna Paton
Graduate Student
Austin Paden
Graduate Student
Shay Pechter
Undergraduate Student
Gavin Johnson
Undergraduate Student
William Gerhardt
Undergraduate Student
Sophie Harbaugh
Undergraduate Student
Past Members:
Lalita Mazgaeen, PhD - Graduate Student - Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University.
Stephen Owusu, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow - Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at U of Iowa.
Barun Poudel, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow - Currently Research Scientist at GSK.
Valerie Harrington - Post Bacculaureate Student - Currently PhD Student at University of Maryland.
Matthew Yorek, MS - Research Associate - Currently Research Associate at the University of Iowa.
Parker Boevers - Undergraduate Student Researcher - Currently Dental Graduate Student at University of Iowa.
Binita Gautam - Undergraduate Student Researcher - Currently Epidemiology Graduate Student at University of Iowa.
Mike Wurth - Undergraduate Student Researcher - Currently Research Assistant at University of Iowa.
Nitya Virippil - Undergraduate Student Researcher - Currently DO student at Nova Southeastern University, FL.
Dalip Saini - Undergraduate Student Researcher.
Omar Rizvi - Undergraduate Student Researcher.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows:
Nathan Schwartz, UW-Madison, 2024.
Kana Iwahara, Student, UT Austin, 2023.
Benjamin Greene, Student, University of Minnesota, 2022.
Lotonna Claire Udoye, Student, Lincoln University, 2021.
Julia Duvall, Student, Bowdoin College, 2021.
Ramila B. Shrestha, Student, Winona State University, 2019.
Imrana H. Salia, Student, Claflin University, 2018.
Shantae Lewis, Student, University of Virgin Islands, 2018