Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja Receives a UConn Research Excellence Program Award Posted on June 5, 2017February 14, 2018 by Kristin Wallace Congratulations to Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja on receiving a UConn Research Excellence Program award for her proposal entitled, “Modulation of Noncanonical Inflammasome by Bacterial Pathogen”. The focus of this project is to understand the mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens modulate the host innate immune responses to successfully establish an infection.