Faculty
Dama Laxminarayana, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Rheumatology.
Dr. Laxminarayana received his PhD from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, where he studied chemical mutagenesis. He completed postdoctoral training with Dr., Kammer at Case Western Reserve University and at Wake Forest University, where he has been studying signal transduction and gene regulation in human T lymphocytes. His research interests include mechanisms involved in activation of protein kinase A during T cell receptor mediated signaling. He is interested in the role of non-receptor tyrosine kinases and protein kinase C in regulation of interleukin-2 and PKA genes during T cell activation. His studies are also directed to characterize structural and functional defects in PKA genes of SLE patients.