Suchandan Sikder

I obtained a PhD (2018) from James Cook University Australia in the field of Microbiology and Immunology. Earlier, I achieved Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree (2009) and a Master of Science (MS) in Veterinary Medicine (2011) from Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Bangladesh. My PhD project was focused on investigation of possible role of group G Streptococcus in the pathogenesis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD). I completed my first postdoctoral associateship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School USA and worked on immunopathologies of allergy. In 2022, I moved to Australia and joined Prof. Alex Loukas lab at the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) James Cook University in Cairns, QLD as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. My current investigation focused on the biodiscovery of worm-derived proteins as anti-inflammatory therapeutics.