Professor Alamelu Sundaresan
IAS Annual Theme: Breathe
Texas Southern University
Dr Sundaresan presently serves as the Chairperson for the Department of Biology, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas. The main goal of the laboratory is to study human immunology in adverse environments, and what happens when the immune system is compromised such as in cancers, microgravity and auto immune conditions.
Main foci include bone tissue engineering (three patents), nutritional immunomodulation, mathematical modelling & toxicology of radiation, particulates and neurodegeneration. Dr Sundaresan is an Adjunct Faculty in the Dept of Surgery involved with inflammation, toxic and immune response. She is also a Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston.
She has authored more than 60 peer reviewed publications and 150 presentations. All their projects involve international collaboration. We work and network with many key collaborators in Denmark, Norway, Brazil, UK and Germany to name a few. The lab is presently funded by the NSF, NIH, NASA and industry.