{"id":3759,"date":"2026-01-20T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/2026\/01\/20\/dr-sivapriya-kailasan-vanajas-paper-published-in-pnas-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:00:51","slug":"dr-sivapriya-kailasan-vanajas-paper-published-in-pnas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/2026\/01\/20\/dr-sivapriya-kailasan-vanajas-paper-published-in-pnas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja\u2019s Paper Published in PNAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-3759\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-3759-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-3759-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-3759-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>Congratulations Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja for having a paper from her lab, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2510274123\">Redefining Shiga toxin\u2013induced human cell death as NLRP1- and gasdermin E-mediated pyroptosis<\/a>\u201d published in the journal PNAS. The paper, first-authored by Dr. Rafael Ricci-Azevedo, a former postdoc in the Vanaja lab, identified the precise mechanism by which Shiga toxin, the leading cause of pediatric hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) worldwide, kills human cells.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-3759-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-3759-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_widget_sp_image widget_sp_image panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\"> <\/h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"200\" alt=\" \" class=\"attachment-full\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2025\/07\/Priya-350-x-200.gif\" \/><div class=\"widget_sp_image-description\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja for having a paper from her lab, \u201cRedefining Shiga toxin\u2013induced human cell death as NLRP1- and gasdermin E-mediated pyroptosis\u201d published in the journal PNAS. The paper, first-authored by Dr. Rafael Ricci-Azevedo, a former postdoc in the Vanaja lab, identified the precise mechanism by which Shiga toxin, the leading cause of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":3751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 07:56:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}