{"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":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/KGI-Indian-American-Professor-Dr-Animesh-Ray-receives-funding-for-lung-cancer-research.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13651 size-full\" title=\"The US Department of Defense Grants Funding for Indian American Professor Animesh Ray\u2019s Cancer Research\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/KGI-Indian-American-Professor-Dr-Animesh-Ray-receives-funding-for-lung-cancer-research.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Animesh Ray, Keck Graduate Institute, Cancer research, US department of Defense, Indian Americans, NRI news\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A graduate of India\u2019s Presidency University in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-to-india-in\/cheap-flights-to-kolkata-ccu\" target=\"_blank\">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 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/uc-global-food-initiative-winners-include-komal-ahmad-and-nandeet-mehta\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, San Diego.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In 2009 he was a guest professor at the University of <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-to-india-in\/cheap-flights-to-hyderabad-hyd\" target=\"_blank\">Hyderabad<\/a><\/span> and the Institute of Systems Biology.<\/strong> Since then he has also been teaching at the Center for Computational Sciences, San Diego State University, and at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Claremont Graduate University in California. KGI Professor Animesh Ray had also been a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dr. Ray is sanguine about his research project, which if successful, can give birth to a new model of lung cancer treatment for development of new drugs with low toxicity.<\/strong> He hopes that new drugs for therapy resistant lung cancer will be less toxic than current anti-cancer drugs. Those suffering from or under treatment for metastatic lung cancers and those showing high vulnerability to the disease will benefit from the success of the research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Since 1993 Indian American Professor Animesh Ray has got several awards from the National Science Foundation, including a grant of $100,000 in 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Also Read<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/indian-americans\/\" class=\"ss-button default\"><strong>Interesting Stories of Indian American Scientists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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