Mangala Rao

Dr. Mangala Rao received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship on IgE receptors on B lymphocytes in the laboratories of Dr. Arnold Froese, University of Manitoba, Canada, and Dr. Daniel H. Conrad, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. She joined Dr. Carl R. Alving in 1990 as an NRC Senior Research Associate in the Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Division of Biochemistry at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and then became a research chemist in 1994. The department later merged with the US Military HIV Research Program.