Sonika Patial, DVM, PhD, DACVP is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University, School of Veterinary Medicine. She earned her DVM and Ph.D. in Molecular Immunology from Michigan State University. Her doctoral research focused on understanding the modulation of inflammatory responses through G-protein coupled receptor kinases and the regulation of inflammation through the NFkB pathway. Following her PhD, she went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in the Laboratory of Signal Transduction under the mentorship of Dr. Perry Blackshear.
