JSU Post-Doctoral Research Associate Dr. Sanjay Kumar receives award for research excellence.
Jackson State University Post-Doctoral Research Associate Sanjay Kumar recently received national recognition for excellence in research at the 2014 Minority Health and Health Disparities Grantees’ Conference held on December 1-3, 2014 at the National Harbor in Maryland, USA. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the conference provided a platform to discuss the latest advances and new developments in basic, clinical, and translational research and innovation that address health issues of concern to minority and underserved populations. About 1,800 participants including 36 from JSU attended this important scientific event.
Dr. Kumar won one of the three best poster awards (second place) in the post-doctoral research associate competition category, for his presentation entitled “Trisenox, Cell Cycle Arrest, MAPK Signaling and Apoptosis in HL-60 cells”. For about two years, Kumar has been working with Dr. Paul Tchounwou, Principal Investigator and Director of JSU RCMI-Center for Environmental Health to study the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which Trisenox and other chemotherapeutic drugs modulate cell cycle regulation, signal transduction and cancer cell death. “I congratulate Dr. Kumar for this excellent award. It is a testimony of the high caliber of research being conducted at Jackson State University” Tchounwou said.
Dr.Kumar received his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He was recipient of Junior and Senior Research Fellowship Award from Council of Scientific and Indian Research, India. Before joining JSU, Dr. Kumar completed postdoctoral training at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, and at University of Tennessee Health Science Centre, Memphis, TN, USA.