Sumati Rajagopalan

Dr. Sumi Rajagopalan received her Ph.D. in Immunology from the Tufts University School of Medicine. After postdoctoral research with Dr. Michael Brenner at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, she joined the Laboratory of Immunogenetics (LIG) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH as a senior staff fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Eric Long in 1995. She has continued her research on NK cells in LIG as a Staff Scientist since 2001. Her research interests include the regulation of NK cell activation by HLA-peptide complexes and the role of NK cells in early pregnancy.