Dr Aruna Subramanian is the lead investigator in what can be a potential breakthrough drug for COVID-19. The Stanford Medicine professional is a trained doctor in infectious diseases and based out of Palo Alto in California. Infectious disease specialists deal with a broad array of diseases caused by germs, ranging from flu to hospital acquired infections to pneumonia. The doctor, who has been practising for the last twenty years is a recipient of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Fellowship. Subramanian is the lead investigator in the phase three clinical trial of the antiviral drug Remdesivir. The Indian-American physician, noted that patients taking the drug course saw improvement from COVID conditions. Here's why you need to know her.
- She is the lead investigator in a trial for finding a potential drug to treat COVID 19 during the coronavirus pandemic.
- She is from University of Michigan Honors College and Medical School, Case Western Reserve University Hospitals of Cleveland Internal Medicine Residency, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Fellowship
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Her current position is Chief, Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases, Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
- She is a trained South Indian classical dancer.
- Dr Subramanian's daughter is part of a dance troupe and does performances in South Indian classical dance.
- She helps organize Indian dance shows around the United States.
- She is part of the lead investigations team at Stanford Medicine along with Gilead Science, the drug company, to fetch answers to the COVID-19 virus. A breakthrough in this study was found through a large-scale clinical trial of a drug called remdesivir. “We brought this on fast,” said Aruna Subramanian, MD, clinical professor of infectious disease and co-principal investigator of the Gilead trials at Stanford. She talks of how this unusual situation around the world led them to fast track efforts. “We got everything together in a week and were ready to roll. This was record time. This type of thing normally takes two to three months to get on board.”
- Her inspiration? In the field of medicine, she has said, "I was inspired to work in transplantation by a mentor at Johns Hopkins named Pamela Tucker." She adds, "She was extremely dedicated to patient care, consulting on transplant patients all by herself, but sadly passed away when I was a senior fellow. We decided to build a full-fledged transplant ID service in her memory."
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