Dipak Raj, PhD

Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Contact Info

• 3720 Spectrum Blvd.
  Tampa FL 33606
• Academic Email: dipakraj@usf.edu
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Education

Interdisciplinary and Emerging Signature Programs

• Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease

Recent Publications

• Michelow IC, Park S, Tsai SW, Rayta B, Pasaje CFA, Nelson S, Early AM, Frosch AP, Ayodo G, Raj DK, Nixon CE, Nixon CP, Pond-Tor S, Friedman JF, Fried M, Duffy PE, Roch KGL, Niles JC, Kurtis JD A Newly Characterized Malaria Antigen on Erythrocyte and Merozoite Surfaces Induces Parasite Inhibitory Antibodies Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(9) , 2021.
• Raj DK, Das Mohapatra A, Jnawali A, Zuromski J, Jha A, Cham-Kpu G, Sherman B, Rudlaff RM, Nixon CE, Hilton N, Oleinikov AV, Chesnokov O, Merritt J, et, al. Anti-PfGARP activates programmed cell death of parasites and reduces severe malaria Nature. 582(7810) : 104-108, 2020.
• Clements RL, Streva V, Dumoulin P, Huang W, Raj DK, Barbara Burleigh B, Llinás M, Winzeler E, Zhang Q, and Dvorin JF A novel antiparasitic compound kills ring-stage Plasmodium falciparum and retains activity against artemisinin-resistant parasites Journal of Infectious Disease, PMID: 31616928 (IF: 5.02)s. , 2019.
• Raj DK,. Kurtis JD, Park S, Nixon CE, McDonald EA, Nixon CP, Pond-Tor S, Jha A, Taliano RJ Kabyemela ER Friedman JF Duffy PE and Fried . Maternally derived antibodies to Schizont Egress Antigen-1 protect offspring from severe malaria Clinical Infectious Diseases. 68(10) : 1718-1724, 2019.