Ramesh Selvaraj

2024 D.W. Brooks Faculty Award for Excellence in International Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Ramesh Selvaraj received his doctor of veterinary medicine degree and master’s degree from Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, a second master’s degree from Oregon State University, and his doctoral degree in immunology from the University of California, Davis. Selvaraj’s laboratory is the first ever to identify and characterize chicken T regulatory cells. He teaches “Nutritional Immunology in the Animal System” to graduate and undergraduate students at UGA. A Poultry Science Association member since 2001, he has regularly served as section program chair and judge of student presentations at the annual meetings.