Rate My Professor Harsha Thakkalapally

Harsha Thakkalapally is a Pharmacology Degree Trainee in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She is a graduate student in Stephen Abbott’s lab, where her research centers on neuropharmacology topics including respiratory chemoreception through RTN and carotid body circuits, communication of inflammation to the central nervous system, and brainstem mechanisms involved in blood pressure control and variability across behavioral states.

Thakkalapally has contributed to collaborative research projects, including work mapping nerve cells in the brainstem that help stabilize blood pressure fluctuations, published in scientific journals such as Circulation Research. Her professional email address is cpp8pu@virginia.edu.