Jyothi Rengarajan MS, PhD

Dr. Jyothi Rengaragan joined the Emory Vaccine Center in the fall of 2007 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine at Emory University and is an Emory Global Health Institute Distinguished Faculty awardee. Her research program centers on understanding the mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis and host immunity to infection.

Dr. Rengarajan received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2001 where she studied transcriptional regulation of T helper cell differentiation. During her post-doctoral training and then as a Research Associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, she used functional genomics as well as microbiological and immunological approaches to understand macrophage-pathogen interactions in tuberculosis. At Emory, Dr. Rengarajan’s research projects encompass both basic and translational approaches to understanding tuberculosis in mouse models and humans.