Prasanna Santhekadur
Prasanna Santhekadur is an Indian Author in Kannada language and a Scientist, and a recipient of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) travel grant (2011) and Young Investigator Award from American Association of Indian Scientists in cancer Research (AAISCR, Inc.) for his contribution to the cancer research (2011)[1][2].
Early life[edit]
Prasanna Santhekadur was born in Santhekadur, a small hamlet near Shimoga, in Karnataka, South India in 1979 and educated at Sahyadri Science College, Shimoga, and later at the University of Mysore.
He completed his master's and PhD degree in Biotechnology and Cancer Research by presenting his thesis on the role of natural compounds on tumor angiogenesis.
Career[edit]
Following the completion of his PhD degree in 2009, he move to the USA and joined the Virginia Commonwealth University as a Post Doctoral Fellow and later as an Assistant Professor at same the University. He moved back to India in December 2018.
He is currently an Associate Professor in Biochemistry at JSS Medical College, (JSSAHER), Mysore, Karnataka, India. His scientific research area is focused on Nonalcoholic Fatty liver disease, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Obesity and Metabolism[3].
His most cited peer-reviewed articles are:
- Yoo BK, Emdad L, Lee SG, Su ZZ, Santhekadur P, Chen D, Gredler R, Fisher PB, Sarkar D. Astrocyte elevated gene-1 (AEG-1): A multifunctional regulator of normal and abnormal physiology. Pharmacology & therapeutics. 2011 Apr 1;130(1):1-8. Cited 137 times according to Google Scholar [4]
- Yoo BK, Santhekadur PK, Gredler R, Chen D, Emdad L, Bhutia S, Pannell L, Fisher PB, Sarkar D. Increased RNA‐induced silencing complex (RISC) activity contributes to hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatology. 2011 May;53(5):1538-48. Cited 126 times according to Google Scholar [4]
- Santhekadur PK, Das SK, Gredler R, Chen D, Srivastava J, Robertson C, Baldwin AS, Fisher PB, Sarkar D. Multifunction protein staphylococcal nuclease domain containing 1 (SND1) promotes tumor angiogenesis in human hepatocellular carcinoma through novel pathway that involves nuclear factor κB and miR-221. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2012 Apr 20;287(17):13952-8. Cited 100 times according to Google Scholar [4]
Other actiovities[edit]
He is the author of Mayapanjara (The Magical cage): A short stories collection [5]. which was very well received in Karnataka 2019, and his second book Ettana Allama Ettana Ramana? Is about the life of two mystics and philosophers of India (Allama Prabhu and Ramana Maharshi) also published in 2019[6].
References[edit]
- ↑ Dr. Prasanna K. Santhekadur
- ↑ Young Investigator Award from AAISCR
- ↑ Dr. Prasanna K. Santhekadur. ResearchGate
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Goggle Scholar citations page -- Prasanna Santhekadur [1] Accessed July 30, 2019
- ↑ Maya Panjara (The Magical cage)
- ↑ Ettana Allama Ettana Ramana by Prasanna Santhekadur
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