Balázs Rada Ph.D. – Professor
Balázs completed his PhD at the Semmelweis University Medical School in Budapest Hungary in 2005 in the group of Dr. Erzsebet Ligeti. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the NIH in the Washington DC metro area 2005-2011 in the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Leto. He started his own research group at the University of Georgia at the end of 2011 to study innate immunity in respiratory diseases including cystic fibrosis, influenza and Streptococcus pneumoniae infections.
E-mail: radab@uga.edu
Aminata Sarr – Laboratory manager
Aminata is a professional laboratory helper, experienced in autoclaving glassware, filing pipette tips and helping with general laboratory work duties such as making buffers and sterilizing instruments. She keeps the work area clean, scraps ice on freezers and is engaged in learning new techniques including genotyping PCR, mouse colony maintenance and human blood work.
E-mail: aminata.sarr@uga.edu

