Dr. Pal specializes in HIV basic science and translational research. Her work centers on investigating how X4-tropic viruses are suppressed by the immune system in the presence of R5-tropic virus, during the early clinical stages of HIV infections.
She additionally runs an HIV cure trial out of the Infectious Disease clinical research unit (ID-CRU) and serves on the inpatient infectious disease consult service.
- BS Chemistry, Biomedical Mathematics, Biochemistry, summa cum laude: Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (2008)
- PhD, Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO (2015)
- MD, PhD: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (2017)
- Residency: Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (2020)
CROI (Conference of Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections) New Investigator Award 2024
- Humanism in Medicine Award, Gold Humanism Honor Society 2017
- Global Health and Infectious Disease Conference, best oral presentation award 2015
- American Society of Physician Scientists Joint meeting Travel Award 2014
- Barry Goldwater Scholarship in Excellence and Education 2008
- John Mark Cafferey Scholarship in Biology 2007
- Honors in the Major Thesis Grant 2007
- Howard Hughes Fellowship in Computational Biology 2006
- Katherine Blood and Harold H. Hoffman Scholarships in Chemistry 2006, 2007
- Muralidharan V., Oksman A., Pal P., Lindquist S. and Goldberg D. E. (2012) Plasmodium
falciparum Hsp110 stabilizes the Asn repeat‐rich parasite proteome during malarial fevers. Nat. Commun., 3:1310 - Pal P, Daniels BP, Oskman A, Diamond MS, Klein RS, Goldberg DE. Plasmodium falciparum Histidine‐Rich Protein II Compromises Brain Endothelial Barriers and May Promote Cerebral Malaria Pathogenesis. M Bio. 2016 Jun
- Pal P, Balaban AE, Diamond MS, Sinnis P, Klein RS, Goldberg DE. Plasmodium falciparum histidine‐rich protein II causes vascular leakage and exacerbates experimental cerebral malaria in mice. PLoS One. 2017 May 5;12(5)
- Poti KE, Balaban AE, Pal P, Kobayashi T, Goldberg DE, Sinnis P, Sullivan DJ. In vivo compartmental kinetics of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein II in the blood of humans and in BALB/c mice infected with a transgenic Plasmodium berghei parasite expressing histidine rich protein II. Malar J. 2019 Mar 13;18(1):78.
- Clark KM, Pal P, Kim JG, Wang Q, Shan L. The CARD8 inflammasome in HIV infection. Adv Immunol. 2023;157:59-100
- Presti, R, Pal, P. Chapter 22: Hepatitis Viruses: Comprehensive Review of Infectious Diseases, 2e.