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
Demba Sarr Ph.D. – Associate Research Scientist
Demba received his Bachelor and Master Degrees of Science from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. He also completed his PhD from the same institution with the group of Dr. Ronan Jambou at the Pasteur Institute Network, where he worked on malaria immunology. Demba moved to the United States in 2007 and worked with Dr. Julie Moore in the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and the Department of Infectious first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as an assistant research scientist with a focus on malaria immunology. Demba joined the laboratory in 2017 and investigates the role of innate immunity in a variety of infectious disease models. His primary focus is to determine the mechanistic role of an oxidative, epithelial antimicrobial immune mechanism in influenza infection and other infectious diseases including malaria.
E-mail: dsarr1@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
The Rada Laboratory 