Ashok Kumar
Pathology
University of Ottawa
Canada
Biography
Ashok Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. His main research interests are in the field of HIV immunopathogenesis, induction and regulation of apoptosis in HIV-infected human macrophages, regulation of T helper cytokines in health and disease and Toll-like receptor signaling in healthy and HIV-infected innate immune cells such as human macrophages and macrophage subsets.
Research Interest
Pathology