Dr. Veena P. Menon
Pharmacy,
Amrita University - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
India
Biography
Dr. Veena P. Menon joined as Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy at Amrita in March 2014. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology & Immunology from Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA. She has about 10 years of research experience in infectious disease, has worked in various labs across USA – Beckman Research Institute, California USA; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda,USA. During the last 4 years, she has been working with leading NIH HIV vaccine investigators in managing and conducting pre-clinical HIV vaccine studies and was actively involved in testing and evaluating new and novel immunogens as HIV vaccine candidates in NHP (non-human primates) models of infection.
Research Interest
Pharmacognosy
