Lakhikumar Sharma Adhikarimayum, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Adhikarimayum received his PhD degree in Medical Biotechnology from Manipur University, India and currently working as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Center for Translational Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, USA since February 2019. His research interest: virology; HIV/AIDS, Molecular Biology of HIV, HIV immunopathogenesis, HIV latency, other Infectious diseases, Sexually transmitted diseases, viral co-infection, genomics and proteomics, regulation of gene expression, epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, transcription factors, etc.
Research Project: Dr. Adhikarimayum contributes in all the ongoing Lab projects, which include characterizing the impact of drugs of abuse on HIV life cycle and defining the underlying molecular mechanisms that control HIV transcription and latency.