Dr. Shivraj Sohur, a native of the small Indian Ocean island of Mauritius,
graduated summa cum laude from Angelo State in 1992, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry. While at ASU, Sohur was a member of the ASU Student Senate, founder and President of the ASU East-West Fellowship, and received the Head of the River Ranch Prize in Biology and prestigious ASU Presidential Award. He was a member of the Biology Honor Society (Beta Beta Beta), American Chemical Society, Alpha Chi National Scholarship Society, and Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities.
Sohur, is proficient in written and spoken French, Hindi, English, Phojpuri, and Creole and proficient in spoken Urdu. As part of the M.D./Ph.D. program at Vanderbilt University, he completed his Ph.D. in Immunology, where he was interested in how antibody producing B lymphocytes are formed. In 1997, he received the Dissertation Enhancement Award which provided grant funds to visit Professor Kenneth Landreth's laboratory at the Mary Babb Cancer Center of West Virginia University. Sohur received his MD degree in May of 2000.
At Vanderbilt, he was Editor of the 1993 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Paddle, member and senior member of the M.D./Ph.D. Program Student Advisory Committee, Medical Microbiology Head Teaching Assistant, President And then Senior Member of the Microbes & Defense Academic Society. In 1998
and 1999, Sohur was Editor of The Chimera, the M.D./Ph.D. Program Newsletter, Coordinator for interviewees to the M.D./Ph.D. Program, member of the M.D./Ph.D. Program Admissions Committee, and member of the interview panel for the position of Dean of Medical Students. He was also a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association for Cancer Research, and Sigma Xi Research Honor Society.
Sohur has written several abstracts and been published in numerous scientific publications. His work has been presented internationally, including research seminars at the University of Fribourg Biochemistry Institute in Fribourg, Switzerland and the Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. His work was presented at the American Association of Cancer Research Special International Conference on Programmed Cell Death at Bolton Landing, New York, in 1996.
Sohur has settled in Columbia, Maryland, with his wife Suzanne who is continuing her post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes for Health. During the next year, he will be completing his internship at the University of Maryland and move to Boston the following year to continue with his residency in Neurology at Harvard/Beth Israel Hospital. He wishes to pursue the academic track of a physician-scientist, focusing his efforts on the diseases of the brain.
As profiled in the 2000 Fall Alumni Magazine.
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