- Vandenberghe Lab > Uday Kumar Chekkilla, PhD
Uday Kumar Chekkilla, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Education: PhD in Biochemistry
Research Projects: Being a part of an active research group, I am currently working on developing therapeutic gene therapy for treating/ preventing AMD (Age Related Macular Degeneration) , IRD’S (Inherited Retinal Degenerations), Retinitis Pigmentosa-28.
Research Interest: Gene therapy, AMD, Retinitis Pigmentosa and Translational Ophthalmology
Career Ambition: Developing therapeutic strategies for preventing or treating eye diseases.
Memberships:
- Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
- American Society of Nutrition (ASN)
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
Awards & Honors:
- Awarded ICMR-SRF fellowship from the Indian Council of medical research (2017-2020)
- Qualified in TS-SET for lectureship (2017)
uchekkilla@meei.harvard.edu
Vandenberghe Lab Team
Luk H. Vandenberghe, PhD
Director (on leave)
Nerea Zabaleta, PhD
Investigator
Anil Chekuri, PhD
Investigator
Reynette Estelien
Lead Research Lab Tech
Jiten Doshi, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Huachun Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Paige Osborn
Program Coordinator
Matt Chagnon
Research Lab Tech I
Yu Ning, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow