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Dr. Rao H. Prabhala received his second master’s degree in medical microbiology and Infectious Diseases from California State University, LA/UCLA in 1985 and PhD in tumor immunology from University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1989.  Following post-doctoral training in mucosal immunology at Dartmouth Hitchcock medical center and Norris Cotton cancer center, he joined medical school in Chicago area to teach medical students and came back to Dartmouth medical school in microbiology department as faculty to work along with Dr. Michael Fanger and Dr. Randolph Noelle. Dr. Prabhala joined Harvard medical school, department of medical oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and department of medicine at Brigham Women’s hospital. His research focuses on immune-monitoring following combinational chemotherapy and CAR-T/BiTE therapies. He pioneered immune profiles with functional capabilities by three different methods including multi-color flow cytometry, CyTOF and CITE-SEQ, single cell sequencing for over 200 immune biomarkers. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers and has received number of grants from NIH/NCI and pharmaceutical companies. He is in number of journal editorial boards and member of Royal society of medicine, Sigma Xi, American association of Immunologists, American association of microbiology and American society of hematology.