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SAASCR honors Indian American

scientists for cancer research

Neeraj Dhar

San Francisco

he Society of American
Asian Scientists in Can-
Tcer Research May 17 an-
nounced that it has recognized
eight Indian American scien-
tists for their superb cancer re-
search.
Dr. Rajvir Dahiya, presi-
dent of SAASCR and professor
emeritus of U.C. San Francis-
co, presented the 2021 awards
to the new group of scientists
on May 17 during the Ameri- and Related Genes at Da- vision of Medical Oncology and doctoral training at the Univer-
can Association for Cancer Re- na-Farber Cancer Institute, and Hematology, where he also di- sity of Texas M.D. Anderson
search annual meeting. associate member of the Broad rects the Trainee Scholarship Cancer Center, he joined the
The awardees were Drs. Institute of MIT and Harvard. Program. He graduated from University of Nebraska Medical
Nina Bhardwaj, Dipanjan Varambally is a professor of the University of Madras, Kil- Center faculty in 1995 as assis-
Chowdhury, Sooryanarayana Pathology, Director of Integra- pauk Medical College, com- tant professor of pathology and
Varambally, Arti Shukla, Koya- tive Translational Oncologic pleted his medical degree from microbiology, and he has been
mangalath Krishnan, Pran K. Pathology Research, co-direc- PGI Chandigarh, trained in Professor since 2008.
Datta, Rakesh K. Singh and tor of the Graduate Biomedical medicine and hematology at His research focus is to un-
Rajagopal Ramesh. Sciences, scientist at the O’Ne- the National Health Service, derstand the role of the tumor
Bhardwaj holds the al Comprehensive Cancer Cen- and Hammersmith Hospital in microenvironment in progres-
Ward-Coleman chair in cancer ter and at Informatics Institute the U.K. and hematology-on- sion and metastasis, the bio
research and is a professor of at the University of Alabama at cology fellowship at the Univer- said.
medicine, hematology and on- Birmingham. sity of Michigan. Ramesh is a Presbyterian
cology at the Icahn School of He is also an adjunct faculty Datta is a professor of medi- Health Foundation Presidential
Medicine at Mount Sinai. at the University of Michigan cine at the Department of Med- professor and Jim and Christy
Director of immunotherapy and The Kastruba Medical Col- icine/Division Hematology/ Everest Endowed Chair in Can-
at The Tisch Cancer Institute, lege at Mangalore, India. Oncology at the University of cer Developmental Therapeu-
Bhardwaj is an immunologist Shukla is professor of pa- Alabama at Birmingham. tics at the University of Okla-
who has made seminal con- thology and laboratory med- He received his doctorate homa Health Sciences Center.
tributions to human dendritic icine in Larner College of from Bose Institute in Kolkata He received his doctorate
cell biology, specifically with Medicine at the University of in organic chemistry. After fin- from the All-India Institute of
respect to their isolation, subset Vermont. ishing his postdoctoral training Medical Sciences in New Delhi,
discovery, immunobiology, an- Shukla did her post-doc- at Vanderbilt University School followed by post-doctoral train-
tigen presenting function, and toral associateship from Men- of Medicine, Datta joined the ing at Tulane Medical Center in
use as vaccine adjuvants in hu- tal Health Research Institute Division of Surgical Oncology New Orleans, Louisiana.
mans, her bio notes. at the University of Michigan. at Vanderbilt University as a He currently serves as the
Chowdhury is a professor of Following post-doc training, tenure track assistant professor, chair of the “Nanotechnology”
medicine at Harvard Medical she joined the Central Drug his bio said. study section of the National
School, and an affiliate faculty Research Institute in Lucknow, Singh is a professor of pa- Institutes of Health. His trans-
member of the Department of India, and worked there for thology and microbiology at the lational cancer research pro-
Biochemistry and Molecular several years before joining Pa- University of Nebraska Medical gram focuses in the diagnosis
Pharmacology and the Depart- thology Department at UVM Center. He also serves as vice- and treatment of lung cancer
ment of Immunology at Har- in December 2001. chair for graduate education using nanotechnology and exo-
vard Medical School. Krishnan holds the Dishner and a member of Fred and Pa- some technology.
He is the chief of the Divi- Chair of Excellence in Med- mela Buffet Cancer Center. He SAASCR is a non-profit,
sion of Radiation and Genome icine at East Tennessee State earned his bachelor’s, master’s non-political organization reg-
Stability in the Department of University’s Quillen College of and doctorate from Banaras istered in the state of Califor-
Radiation Oncology and co-di- Medicine in Johnson City. Hindu University. nia in 2004 and has more than
rector of the Center for BRCA He is a professor in the Di- After completing his post- 5,000 members.

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