Renowned medical researcher Pramod K. Srivastava is the new director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
He succeeds Carolyn Runowicz, an internationally recognized leader in gynecologic oncology, who has joined the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami.
Srivastava is a professor and interim chair of the Department of Immunology, director of the Center for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases, and part of the leadership team of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. He holds the Physicians Health Services Chair in Cancer Immunology.
An Avon resident, Srivastava is internationally acclaimed for his work in the immunological function of heat shock proteins and in cancer immunology, is widely published in scholarly journals, and serves on editorial boards for several major journals in immunology.
A graduate of UConn’s School of Medicine, Srivastava earned his doctoral degree in biochemistry from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India. He received his postdoctoral training at Yale University and the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.
