Siddharth Balachandran
management Team
Ascend Biopharmaceuticals
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Siddharth Balachandran is Co-leader of Blood Cell Development and Function Program at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis from Emory University in 2001 and, after Postdoctoral work at the University of Miami School of Medicine, joined Fox Chase in 2007 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology at Temple and Drexel Universities. Professor Balachandran’s laboratory studies how microbial and viral infections activate host innate immunity, with a focus on the role of cell death in these processes. His laboratory is particularly interested in a form of programmed cell death termed necroptosis, and seeks to exploit this form of immunogenic death for the treatment of human disease, whether infectious, inflammatory, or malignant. Professor Balachandran currently serves, or has served, on the Editorial Boards of the journals Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cytokine, and Frontiers in Cell Death and Survival.
Research Interest
Cellular biology
