Education

Ph.D. in Biochemistry, National Institute of Immunology, India, 2007

Current position

Associate, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA (since 2011)

Publications (last 5 years)

1. Arora, P., Baena, A., Yu, K. O., Saini, N. K., Kharkwal, S. S., Goldberg, M. F., Kunnath-Velayudhan, S., Carreno, L. J., Venkataswamy, M. M., Kim, J., Lazar-Molnar, E., Lauvau, G., Chang, Y. T., Liu, Z., Bittman, R., Al-Shamkhani, A., Cox, L. R., Jervis, P. J., Veerapen, N., Besra, G. S. and Porcelli, S. A. (2014). A single subset of dendritic cells controls the cytokine bias of natural killer T cell responses to diverse glycolipid antigens. Immunity 40(1): 105-116.
   
2. Arora, P., Foster, E. L. and Porcelli, S. A. (2013). CD1d and natural killer T cells in immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Adv Exp Med Biol 783: 199-223.
   
3. Tyznik, A. J., Farber, E., Girardi, E., Birkholz, A., Li, Y., Chitale, S., So, R., Arora, P., Khurana, A., Wang, J., Porcelli, S. A., Zajonc, D. M., Kronenberg, M. and Howell, A. R. (2011). Glycolipids that elicit IFN-gamma-biased responses from natural killer T cells. Chem Biol 18(12): 1620-1630.
   
4. Arora, P., Venkataswamy, M. M., Baena, A., Bricard, G., Li, Q., Veerapen, N., Ndonye, R., Park, J. J., Lee, J. H., Seo, K. C., Howell, A. R., Chang, Y. T., Illarionov, P. A., Besra, G. S., Chung, S. K. and Porcelli, S. A. (2011). A rapid fluorescence-based assay for classification of iNKT cell activating glycolipids. J Am Chem Soc 133(14): 5198-5201.
   
5. Im, J. S., Arora, P., Bricard, G., Molano, A., Venkataswamy, M. M., Baine, I., Jerud, E. S., Goldberg, M. F., Baena, A., Yu, K. O., Ndonye, R. M., Howell, A. R., Yuan, W., Cresswell, P., Chang, Y. T., Illarionov, P. A., Besra, G. S. and Porcelli, S. A. (2009). Kinetics and cellular site of glycolipid loading control the outcome of natural killer T cell activation. Immunity 30(6): 888-898.
   
6. Arora, P., Goyal, A., Natarajan, V. T., Rajakumara, E., Verma, P., Gupta, R., Yousuf, M., Trivedi, O. A., Mohanty, D., Tyagi, A., Sankaranarayanan, R. and Gokhale, R. S. (2009). Mechanistic and functional insights into fatty acid activation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nat Chem Biol 5(3): 166-173.