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Dr. Shailesh K. Shahi received the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s (NMSS) Travel Award

Monday, November 21, 2016
Shailesh K. Shahi has been awarded the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s (NMSS) Travel Award for 2016 Autumn Immunology Conference, held in Chicago November 18-21, 2016. He is working on a research project to decipher role of gut microbiota in modulation of multiple sclerosis (MS) in its animal model.

Ms. Samantha Freedman received T32 Predoctoral Award

Monday, November 21, 2016
Samantha Freedman, a graduate student in my lab was selected for an appointment to the “Predoctoral Training Program in Immunology”.

Scientists connect gut microbiota disruption with multiple sclerosis onset

Gastro dysbiosis has been implicated in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) as a study continues to lay bare the gut microbiota’s influence on a range of chronic conditions. Read the article By Will Chu, 07-Jul-2016 at NUTRAingredients.com

Multiple sclerosis patients have a distinct gut microbiota compared to healthy controls

Received one of the top 100 read Scientific Reports articles in 2016.