Kanneboyina Nagaraju received his bachelor s degree in veterinary medicine from the College of Veterinary Sciences, Tirupati, India, in 1986; his master s degree in veterinary immunology from the prestigious Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, in 1989; and his PhD in immunology from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India in 1995. Immediately after completing his PhD, he came to the United States to do a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md.
After completing this fellowship in 1999, he became a tenure-track assistant professor in the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. In 2005, he joined the Research Center of Genetic Medicine, Children s Research Institute of the Children s National Medical Center (CNMC) and was appointed an associate professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicin