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.
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Dec. 1-3 conference held at the National Harbor in Maryland targeted advances in research addressing health issues of concern to minority and underserved populations. About 1,800 participants including 36 from JSU attended the 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.”
Kumar has been working with Dr. Paul Tchounwou, principal investigator and director of JSU Research Centers in Minority Institutions (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 Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Before joining JSU, Dr. Kumar completed postdoctoral training at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Ind., and at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.