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Languages: English, Hindi
Expertise: Infectious Diseases and International Health, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Research Interests: Tuberculosis; Pediatric tuberculosis; Imaging for infections and inflammatory diseases; CNS tuberculosis; Cellular and low-cost technologies to improve health care; Mycobacteria ...read more
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Dr. Sanjay Kumar Jain is a Professor of Pediatrics, Radiology and Radiological Science. He is also a Professor of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. His areas of clinical expertise include infectious diseases and international health and pediatric infectious disease.
Dr. Jain serves as the director of the Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research.
Born in Halifax, Canada, Dr. Jain grew up in India. He received his medical degree in 1999 from All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, where he was a house officer in neuroradiology. He trained in pediatrics at Penn State Children’s Hospital, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and the Tufts University School of Medicine. He was a clinical fellow in pediatric infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins before joining its faculty in 2005. Dr. Jain was named an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 2011.
The focus of Dr. Jain’s research is to find new and better ways to combat tuberculosis (TB). To this end, his research focuses on the development and use of imaging technologies to study TB pathogenesis and as tools for monitoring disease. He also studies the pathogenesis of CNS TB and utilization of new diagnostics for childhood TB. In the Center for TB Research at Johns Hopkins, he and his research colleagues received a 2007 $1 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation award to design a system that visually tracks the behavior of M. tuberculosis in the body with the goal of developing faster, cheaper drug therapies against a disease that affects billions around the world.
Dr. Jain is an organizing member of the TB Drug Accelerator Meeting for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He has been recognized with several awards, including $2.2 million in funding through a Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health and a NIH Director’s New Innovator Award in 2009.
Dr. Jain’s primary research interests include the development of imaging technology for real-time evaluation of M. tuberculosis infection and pathogenesis of central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis. He has developed both in vitro and in vivo murine models to study CNS invasion by M. tuberculosis.
As part of a Gates Foundation-funded project, Dr. Jain is developing imaging technologies to evaluate M. tuberculosis infections in real-time. These include CT and PET imaging to evaluate the anatomic and inflammatory state of lungs of animals experimentally infected with M. tuberculosis. Using novel radio-nucleotide imaging technology, Dr. Jain is also developing technologies to image live mycobacteria using SPECT imaging. He is also leading a study to evaluate a novel TB test for the diagnosis of active TB in young HIV-infected children in India.
Core Facility: Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research at the Division of Infectious Diseases (Ci3R), Center for
Be NA, Bishai WR, Jain SK. "Role of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pknD in the Pathogenesis of Central Nervous System Tuberculosis." BMC Microbiol. 2012, 12:7. Highly accessed.
Harper J, Skerry C, Davis SL, Tasneen R, Weir W, Kramnik I, Bishai WR, Pomper MG, Nuermberger EL, Jain SK. "Mouse model of necrotic TB granulomas develops hypoxic lesions." J Infect Dis. 2012 Feb;205(4):595-602. Epub 2011 Dec 23.
Be NA, Klinkenberg LG, Bishai WR, Karakousis PK, Jain SK. "Strain-dependent CNS dissemination in guinea pigs after Mycobacterium tuberculosis aerosol challenge." Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2011 Sep;91(5):386-9.
Vidal C, Beggs D, Younes L, Jain SK, Jedynak B. "Incorporating user input in template-based segmentation." Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Images 2011.
Dutta NK, Mehra S, Didier PJ, Roy CJ, Doyle LA, Alvarez X, Ratterree M, Be NA, Lamichhane G, Jain SK, Lacey MR, Lackner AA, Kaushal D. "Genetic requirements for the survival of tubercle bacilli in primates." J Infect Dis. 2010 Jun 1;201(11):1743-52.
Vidal C, Hewitt J, Davis S, Younes L, Jain S, Jedynak B. Template Registration with missing parts: Application to the Segmentation of Tuberculosis infected lungs. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Images (in press).
Be N, Kim KS, Bishai WR, Jain SK. Pathogenesis of Central Nervous System Tuberculosis. Curr Mol Med. 2009 Mar;9(2):94-9.
Converse PJ, Karakousis PC, Klinkenberg KC, Kesavan AK, Ly LH, Allen SS, Grosset JH, Jain SK, Lamichhane G, Manabe YC, McMurray DN, Nuermberger EL, Bishai WR. The role of the dosR/dosS two-component regulatory system in Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence in three animal models. Infect Immun. 2009 Mar;77(3):1230-7.
Agwu AL, Lee CK, Jain SK, Murray KL, Topolski J, Miller, RE, Townsend T, Lehmann CU. A World Wide Web-based antimicrobial stewardship program improves efficiency, communication, and user satisfaction and reduces cost in a tertiary care pediatric medical center. Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Sep 15;47(6):747-53.
Be N, Lamichhane G, Grosset J, Tyagi S, Cheng Q, Kim KS, Bishai WR, Jain SK. Cover Page picture. J Infect Dis. 2008 Nov 15;198(10).
Be N, Lamichhane G, Grosset J, Tyagi S, Cheng Q, Kim KS, Bishai WR, Jain SK. Murine model to study Invasion and Survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Central Nervous System. J Infect Dis. 2008 Nov 15;198(10):1520-8.
Jain SK, Lamichhane G, Nimmagadda S, Pomper M, Bishai WR. Antibiotic Treatment of Tuberculosis: Old Problems, New Solutions. Microbe 2008 Jun; 3(6): 285-92.
Jain SK, Hernandez-Abanto S, Cheng Q, Singh P, Ly LH, Klinkenberg G, Morrison NE, Converse PJ, Nuermberger E, Grosset J, McMurray DN, Karakousis PC, Lamichhane G, Bishai WR. Accelerated detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes essential for bacterial survival in guinea pigs compared with mice. J Infect Dis. 2007 Jun 1;195(11):1634-42.
Hernandez-Abanto S, Woolwine SC, Jain SK, Bishai WR. Tetracycline-inducible gene expression in mycobacteria within an animal host using Streptomyces-derived tetO and tetR regulatory elements. Arch Microbiol. 2006 Dec;186(6):459-64.
Jain SK, Bishai WR. Adherence, treatment success, and resistance. Infect Dis Clin Pract. 2006 July 14(4) Supplement 4:S15-S18.
Jain SK, Paul-Satyaseela M, Lamichhane G, Kim KS, Bishai WR. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Invasion and Traversal across an In Vitro Human Blood-Brain Barrier as a Pathogenic Mechanism for Central Nervous System Tuberculosis. J Infect Dis. 2006 May 1;193(9):1287-95.
Bhally HS, Jain S, Shields C, Halsey N, Cristofalo E, Merz WG. Infection in a neonate caused by Pichia fabianii: importance of molecular identification. Med Mycol. 2006 Mar;44(2):185-7.
Jain SK, Tunkel DE, Bishai WR. Management of Acute Rhinosinusitis, Bronchitis Syndromes, and Acute Otitis Media. Adv Stud Med. 2005; 5(7):344-350.
Jain SK, Kwon P, Moss WJ. Management and outcomes of intracranial tuberculomas developing during antituberculous therapy: case report and review. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2005 Jun;44(5):443-50.
Jain SK, Persaud D, Perl TM, Pass MA, Murphy KM, Pisciotta JM, Scholl PF, Casella JF, Sullivan DJ. Nosocomial Malaria and Saline Flush. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 July;11(7):1097-99.
Jain SK, Gupta A, Glanz B, Dick J, Siberry GK. Antimicrobial-resistant Shigella sonnei: Limited antimicrobial treatment options for children and challenges of interpreting in vitro azithromycin susceptibility. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2005 Jun;24(6):494-497.
Jain SK. Index of suspicion. Case 3. Diagnosis: Jaundice. Pediatr Rev. 2001 Aug;22(8):271-6.
Jain SK, Deepak KK. Cost Effective Computerized Analysis of Biological Signals. Indian J Physiol Pharmacol 1995; 39(4): 389-394.
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