University of Pittsburgh

Purushottam S. Narute, PhD

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow





	
	


			

		Dr. Puru Narute	
		

		

	
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Education
	
	

	
PhD in Infectious Diseases and Microbiolgy, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, 2012
DVM, Nagpur Veterinary College, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur (India), 2003
MVSc, Indian Verterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar (India), 2005
        

              
   
  
 
 


  
 
 
 
 
 	
Program
	
	

	Infectious Diseases and Microbiology (GSPH)	
	


 
 
 	
Mentor
	
	

	
Thomas Smithgall, PhD
        

                
        
        
        
        	
Dissertation
	
	

	HIV-1 Nef-Src Family Kinase Interaction: A Novel Target for the Inhibition of HIV-1 Pathogenesis	
	


        
        
        
        
 
 
   
   
















        













	
Areas of Interest
	
	

	New drug discovery for HIV-1	
	






	
Why I Chose Pitt
	
	

	
Following his graduation from the University of Pittsburgh, Purushottam accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow in the Critical Care Medicine Department at the National Institutes of Health. There he will be performing clinical research for pulmonary inflammation.
	
	




	
Publications
	
	

	
Marcsisin, S. R; Narute, P. S; Emert-Sedlak, L. A; Kloczewiak, M; Smithgall, T. E; and Engen, J. R. (2011) On the solution conformation and dynamics of the HIV-1 Virion Infectivity Factor. J. Mol. Biol. 410: 1008-1022. |  View Abstract