{"id":13643,"date":"2016-06-28T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=13643"},"modified":"2016-06-28T19:32:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T19:32:27","slug":"indian-american-professor-animesh-ray-at-keck-graduate-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/indian-american-professor-animesh-ray-at-keck-graduate-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"US Department of Defense Grants Funding for Indian American Professor Animesh Ray\u2019s Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
The United States Department of Defense has approved funding for Keck Graduate Institute\u2019s Indian American Professor Animesh Ray\u2019s research on lung cancer drug resistance.<\/strong> Titled \u201cA novel approach to understand and prevent the evolution of drug resistant lung cancer cells: A feasibility study,\u201d the research project is focused on patients with therapy and drug resistant lung cancers.<\/p>\n Recurrence of lung cancer in those who positively responded to initial medication and therapy is a major threat to many lives on earth.<\/strong> Reemergence of lung cancer despite successful treatment with anti-cancer drugs at the initial phase affects other organs of the victim\u2019s body. KGI Professor Animesh Ray\u2019s research project will use advanced genomic technology to examine the drug and therapy resistant forms of lung cancer.<\/p>\n Dr. Animesh Ray, who did PhD in microbial genetics from Monash University, said, \u201cI am looking to reduce recurrence of lung cancers by preventing the genome of cancer cells from developing resistance to drugs<\/strong>, using the next-generation DNA sequence technology. He added, \u201cI hope that the research will help discover or invent a new promising solution to prevent reemergence of degenerated lung cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n A graduate of India\u2019s Presidency University in Kolkata<\/a><\/span> (then Calcutta\u2019s Presidency College), Indian American Professor Animesh Ray has studied mechanisms of DNA recombination since 1985<\/strong>. He had a short stint as assistant professor at the University of Rochester from 1991 to 1995. After having joined Keck Graduate Institute in 2001, he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of California<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, San Diego.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n