Girish J. Kotwal
UMass School of Medicine, USA
Biography
Girish J. Kotwal obtained his PhD in Biochemistry on VSV from McMaster University. Postdoctoral training in VV was at the NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. Worked as Assistant Member at the GIMR in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the diagnosis of HCV infection. He then joined the faculty at U. of Louisville, SOM. He joined as Professor and Chair of Medical Virology and received the Senior Wellcome Trust fellowship for biomedical Sciences in South Africa. He has worked on broad spectrum antivirals. Currently is Adjunct Professor of Medicine at UMass. He has over 100 publications and is an inventor on patents