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Dr. Rajagopal Appavu, Research Expert Dr. Rajagopal Appavu is currently a Professor in the Health Care Studies department at the University of South Florida and was previously a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics (Biochemistry) from Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore, India. He received his M.Sc. in Chemical Sciences from Pondicherry University, Puducherry, and his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Govt. Arts College, Salem, Tamil Nadu. Expertise: Vaccine & Drug Development, Medical Device Technology, Data Science, Pharmaceutical DNA/RNA Biology, Chemical Biology Skills: Innate Immunity, Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Mass Spectrometry, Chromatography, Organic Synthesis, Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Immunity, Flow Cytometry, Cellular Immunology, Infection