CIR Seminar: Professor Sumit Chanda “Fighting Tomorrow’s Viruses Today”Professor Sumit Chanda, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps ResearchProfessor Chanda webpageHost: Professor Kenny Baillie** please remember attendance at these seminars is compulsory for all students registered in the CIR as part of your continued development and educational training**Bio: The Chanda Lab exploits systems-based approaches and cutting-edge technologies to study the virus-host interface and innate immunity, with a focus on RNA viruses that pose a pandemic threat. Basic findings drive drug discovery efforts through our group at Calibr, the translational research arm of Scripps, including the development of next-generation antivirals, adjuvants for vaccines, and immunotherapies. Our research efforts are supported by the Gates Foundation, the DoD, the Martin Delaney Collaboratory, AViDD and other NIH contracts, cooperative agreements and grants. The group has also partnered with major pharmaceutical and biotech companies for early-phase drug discovery in the field of antivirals and inflammatory diseases. Additionally, we are proud to be part of the development team behind Metascape, a web-based portal designed to provide a comprehensive gene list annotation and analysis resource for experimental biologists.Sumit Chanda earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2001 and received his post-doctoral training at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF). He subsequently transitioned to a Group Leader position and established his research group in the Division of Cellular Genomics at GNF. In 2007, he joined the Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute as an Associate Professor. Dr. Chanda was promoted to Professor in 2013. In 2015, he was appointed Director of the Immunity and Pathogenesis Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. He joined Scripps in 2021 as Professor of Immunology and Microbiology. In his free time, Sumit enjoys soccer, scuba-diving, hiking and trying new restaurants.CIR student meet the speaker session following the seminar at 1pm. If you would like to attend the student session, lunch provided, please contact Nur Syahrir N.H.A.Syahrir@sms.ed.ac.uk advising if you have any food allergies/dietary requirements. May 01 2026 12.00 - 13.00 CIR Seminar: Professor Sumit Chanda “Fighting Tomorrow’s Viruses Today” IRR South large seminar room 1.05
CIR Seminar: Professor Sumit Chanda “Fighting Tomorrow’s Viruses Today”Professor Sumit Chanda, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps ResearchProfessor Chanda webpageHost: Professor Kenny Baillie** please remember attendance at these seminars is compulsory for all students registered in the CIR as part of your continued development and educational training**Bio: The Chanda Lab exploits systems-based approaches and cutting-edge technologies to study the virus-host interface and innate immunity, with a focus on RNA viruses that pose a pandemic threat. Basic findings drive drug discovery efforts through our group at Calibr, the translational research arm of Scripps, including the development of next-generation antivirals, adjuvants for vaccines, and immunotherapies. Our research efforts are supported by the Gates Foundation, the DoD, the Martin Delaney Collaboratory, AViDD and other NIH contracts, cooperative agreements and grants. The group has also partnered with major pharmaceutical and biotech companies for early-phase drug discovery in the field of antivirals and inflammatory diseases. Additionally, we are proud to be part of the development team behind Metascape, a web-based portal designed to provide a comprehensive gene list annotation and analysis resource for experimental biologists.Sumit Chanda earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2001 and received his post-doctoral training at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF). He subsequently transitioned to a Group Leader position and established his research group in the Division of Cellular Genomics at GNF. In 2007, he joined the Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute as an Associate Professor. Dr. Chanda was promoted to Professor in 2013. In 2015, he was appointed Director of the Immunity and Pathogenesis Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. He joined Scripps in 2021 as Professor of Immunology and Microbiology. In his free time, Sumit enjoys soccer, scuba-diving, hiking and trying new restaurants.CIR student meet the speaker session following the seminar at 1pm. If you would like to attend the student session, lunch provided, please contact Nur Syahrir N.H.A.Syahrir@sms.ed.ac.uk advising if you have any food allergies/dietary requirements. May 01 2026 12.00 - 13.00 CIR Seminar: Professor Sumit Chanda “Fighting Tomorrow’s Viruses Today” IRR South large seminar room 1.05
