Deepak Kumar

Employment

• Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Assistant Professor (Non-Tenure Track)
  2026 - Present
• Baylor College of Medicine Postdoctoral Research Associate
  2021 - 2026
• Washington University in St. Louis Postdoctoral Research Associate
  2020 - 2021
• Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
  2015 - 2020
• Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology senior research fellow
  2014 - 2015
• Institute of Microbial Technology CSIR CSIR Diamond Jubilee Research Intern
  2012 - 2014

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Doctor of Philosophy
  2015 - 2020
• Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University msc biotechnology
  2009 - 2011
• Guru Nanak Dev University Bachelor in Science Biotechology
  2006 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (25)

• Trophoblast ferroptosis restricts SARS-CoV-2 spread in the placenta
  2026 1 citation DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.26.701742
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• Intercellular highways of viral spread: tunneling nanotubes and extracellular vesicles at the maternal–fetal interface
  Current Opinion in Virology 2025 3 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2025.101490
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• SARS-CoV-2 infection disrupts syncytial and endothelial integrity and alters PlGF levels in the placenta
  Placenta 2025 3 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2025.09.009
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• Bacteriophage-mediated reduction of uropathogenic E. coli from the urogenital epithelium
  2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.06.680661
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• ORF3a is a key driver of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection-associated placental dysfunction
  2025 3 citations DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6857689/v1
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• Zika virus NS1 drives tunneling nanotube formation for mitochondrial transfer and stealth transmission in trophoblasts
  Nature Communications 2025 28 citations DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56927-2
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• SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a Protein Impairs Syncytiotrophoblast Maturation, Alters ZO-1 Localization, and Shifts Autophagic Pathways in Trophoblast Cells and 3D Organoids
  2024 2 citations DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.25.614931
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• Zika Virus NS1 Drives Tunneling Nanotube Formation for Mitochondrial Transfer, Enhanced Survival, Interferon Evasion, and Stealth Transmission in Trophoblasts
  2023 4 citations DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3674059/v1
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• COVID-19 and pregnancy: clinical outcomes; mechanisms, and vaccine efficacy
  Translational Research 2023 60 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2022.08.007
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• Discovery And Characterization of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Zika Virus Replication
  2022 1 citation DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.15.520558
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