Vikram Thakur, Ph. D.

About

Vikram Thakur, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, USA. His research focuses on molecular virology, virus–host interactions, neuroinflammation, and cancer biology. He has extensive experience in viral pathogenesis, immunology, molecular diagnostics, and translational biomedical research, with previous work on hepatitis E virus, dengue virus, respiratory viruses, and inflammasome signaling. He is currently expanding his research into oncogenic herpesviruses, particularly Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), to investigate mechanisms of viral oncogenesis and identify novel therapeutic targets for lymphoma and virus-associated cancers.

Employment

• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Postdoctoral Research Associate (PI: Dr. Murali Muniraju)
  2026 - Present
• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Postdoctoral Research Associate (PI: Prof. Dr. Huanyu Dou)
  2024 - 2026

Education

• Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Ph.D.
  2014 - 2020
• Himachal Pradesh University M. Phil
  2012 - 2013
• Himachal Pradesh University M. Sc. Microbiology
  2010 - 2012

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (27)

• Merkel cell Polyomavirus
  2025 DOI: 10.1201/9781003516651-16
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• Oncogenic Viruses-Encoded microRNAs in Hepatotropic Oncogenic Viral Diseases
  2025 DOI: 10.1201/9781003516651-9
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• Correlation of clinical, biochemical and molecular profile of dengue with disease severity
  VirusDisease 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s13337-025-00930-0
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• Paclitaxel production from endophytic Mucor circinelloides isolated from Taxus sp. of the Northern Himalayan region.
  3 Biotech 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-024-04091-7
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• Maternal and perinatal outcome in dengue and COVID-19 co-infected pregnancies.
  European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2023.02.017
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• Correction to: Waves and variants of SARS-CoV-2: understanding the causes and effect of the COVID-19 catastrophe.
  Infection 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s15010-021-01752-0
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• Neurological toll of COVID-19.
  Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s10072-022-05875-6
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• NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation is a Prognostic Marker of Recovery in HEV-Infected Patients.
  Current microbiology 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-021-02736-x
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• Placenta as a site of HEV replication and inflammatory cytokines modulating the immunopathogenesis of HEV in pregnant women.
  Journal of medical virology 2022 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.27699
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• Association between Adaptive Evolution of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Spike Protein and Geographically Distinct Virus Epidemiology During the Initial Wave of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
  Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2022 DOI: 10.22207/JPAM.16.1.21
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