Rate My Professor Prasanti Kotagiri

Kotagiri's research centers on B cell receptor repertoire and immune transcriptome in aging, autoimmunity, and transplantation. Key projects include profiling autoreactive B cells in IgA nephropathy (with Stanford University), modeling age-related B cell populations in autoimmunity (with Cambridge University), and characterizing donor-specific B cells for transplantation outcomes (with Austin Health and Monash Health). She has secured NHMRC Emerging Leadership Level 1 Fellowship, RACP Jacquot Research Entry and Establishment Fellowships, Charles and Sylvia Viertel Clinical Investigator Award, and Fulbright Futures Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her publications feature first-author works in Nature, Immunity, and Nature Communications, including 'Age-related immune response heterogeneity to SARS-CoV-2 vaccine BNT162b2' (Nature, 2021), 'Longitudinal analysis reveals that delayed bystander CD8+ T cell activation and early immune pathology distinguish severe COVID-19 from mild disease' (Immunity, 2021), 'B cell receptor repertoire kinetics after SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination' (Cell Reports, 2022), and 'Iron dysregulation and inflammatory stress erythropoiesis associates with long-term outcome of COVID-19' (Nature Immunology, 2024). Her contributions advance therapeutic strategies in kidney disease and immunology.