Sunil Khattar

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About Sunil Khattar

Molecular virologist with more than 15 years of professional experience including 9 years of experience in vaccine development in academic setting and 6 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry on early and pre-clinical development of new drug molecules. Adept in genetic manipulation of RNA and DNA viruses, attenuation of RNA viruses as vaccine vectors, dissection of molecular determinants of virulence, and attenuation, generation, biological and immunological characterization of recombinant RNA viruses using reverse genetics. Excellent knowledge of development of viral vectors, animal models and analysis of immune responses to vaccination. Experienced in handling different RNA and DNA viruses. Specialties: Investigating biology of DNA and RNA viruses, Using RNA viruses as vaccine vectors, Molecular Virology, Reverse Genetics, Viral pathogenesis, Vaccine Development and Evaluation in Different Animal Models, Drug Development, Veterinary Medicine, Experience of writing grants, Project management, People management, Proficient in DNA sequence software such as EditSeq; MS office applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other programs such as Adobe Photoshop, GraphPad Prism.