Dr Ahuja received her M.D. from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India. She is presently an Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, USA. Her postdoctoral training was at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the Laboratory of Host Defenses, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD. My long term goal is to elucidate the role of chemokines and chemokine receptors in generation of host immune responses using murine models of human diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, Kawasaki's Disease and atherosclerosis.