Shubhada Bopegamage
Associate Professor
Slovak Medical University
Slovak Republic
Biography
Associate Professor Shubhada Bopegamage, MSc., PhD is a Virologist currently heading the Enterovirus Laboratory and the National Reference Center for Identification of Enteroviruses at the Medical Faculty of the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her work is focussed on the pathogenesis and diagnosis of enteroviruses. She received her BSc. Microbiology degree from Pune, India and MSc. Microbiology degree from Mumbai, India. She got her PhD in Biological Sciences from the Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. She is known in the Enterovirus research since 2005 for her work on the in vivo experimental coxsackievirus oral infection of mice. She is involved in research and teaching and has guided several MSc. and PhD students. She has co-ordinated and has lead several national and international projects as a principal or co-investigator.
Research Interest
Enterovirus and coxsackievirus oral infections.