Uma Sankar, PhD

Research Program

Prevention & Control

Education

Education/Training

B.Sc., Kerala Agricultural University, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, Agriculture, 1986-1991

M.S., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Horticulture and Crop Science, 1994-1997

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, 1997-2003

Postdoc, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, 2003-2006

Research and Professional Experience
 
1991-1992                                
Agricultural Officer, Allahabad Bank,
Satna, M.P., India
 
1992-1994                                
Agricultural Extension Officer, Shiram Agro-Tech Industries Ltd.,
Indore, M.P., India
 
1995-1997        
Graduate Research Associate, Department of Horticulture and Crop Sciences,
The Ohio State University,Columbus, Ohio
 
1998-2003        
Graduate Research Associate, Department of Molecular Genetics,
The Ohio State University
 
2006-present    
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology,
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
 
2006-present    
Associate Scientist, James Graham Brown Cancer Center,
University of Louisville
 
Selected Awards and Professional Honors

1997
Honorary Membership, Gamma Sigma Delta (Honor Society of Agriculture),
The Ohio State University

1997
First Prize, Joint College Conference Poster Competition, College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences College-Wide Conference,
The Ohio State University

Publications

Mansky KC, Sankar U, Han J, Ostrowski MC. Microphthalmia transcription factor is a target of the p38 MAPK pathway in response to receptor activator of NF-kappa B ligand signaling. J Biol Chem 277(13):11077-83, 2002
 
Bayoumy M, Sankar U, Muthusamy N. Role of macrophage-colony stimulating factor and osteoclast differentiation factor in osteoclastogenesis of bone marrow derived stem cells. Indian J Exp Biol 40(9):995-1000, 2002
 
Sankar U, Patel K, Rosol TJ, Ostrowski MC. RANKL coordinates cell cycle withdrawal and differentiation in osteoclasts through the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p27KIP1 and p21CIP1. J Bone Miner Res 19(8): 1339-48, 2004
 
Kitsos CM, Sankar U, Illario M, Colomer-Font JM, Duncan AW, Ribar TJ, Reya T, Means AR. Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV regulates hematopoietic stem cell maintenance. J Biol Chem 280(39):33101-8, 2005

 

 

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