Rakesh Nagarajan, MD, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Pathology & Immunology
Division: Laboratory & Genomic Medicine
Division
- Laboratory & Genomic Medicine
Additional Titles
- Founder and Executive Chariman, PierianDx
Education
- BA, Echols Interdisciplinary: University of Virginia, Jack Jouett, VA (1994)
- MD: Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2002)
- PhD, Neurosciences: Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2002)
Recognition
- Change Agent Award, caBIG™, 2008
- Outstanding Team Contribution Award, Siteman Cancer Center, caBIG™, 2006
- Integrative Cancer Research Workspace Team Mentoring Award, caBIG™, 2006
- Tissue Banks and Pathology Tools Workspace Team Award, caBIG™, 2006
- Spencer T. & Ann W. Olin Medical Scientist Fellow Award, Washington University, 2002
- Echols Scholar Program, University of Virginia, 1990-94
- Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, University of Virginia, 1992-94
- Howard Hughes Research Apprenticeship Program, University of Virginia, 1992-94
- Center for Biological Timing Research Apprenticeship, University of Virginia, 1991
Publications
| Tourellotte WG, Nagarajan R, Auyeung A, Mueller C, and Milbrandt J. (1999). Infertility associated with incomplete spermatogenic arrest and oligozoospermia in Egr4-deficient mice. Development 1999, 126;5061-5071 PMID: 10529423 |
| Tourellotte WG, Nagarajan R, Bartke A, and Milbrandt J. Functional compensation by Egr4 in Egr 1 dependent luteinizing hormone regulation and Leydig cell steroidogenesis. Mol Cell Biol 2000;20 5261-5268. PMID: 10866682; PMCID: PMC85975 |
| Nagarajan R, Svaren J, Le N, Araki T, Watson MA, and Milbrandt J. EGR2 mutations in inherited neuropathies dominant-negatively inhibit myelin gene expression. Neuron 2001;30-355 PMID: 11394999 |
| Araki T, Nagarajan R, and Milbrandt J. Identification of genes induced in peripheral nerve after injury. 2001. J Biol Chem 2001;276:34131-34141 PMID: 11427537 |
| Gutmann DH, Hedrick NM, Li J, Nagarajan R, Perry A, and Watson MA. Comparative gene expression profile analysis of neurofibromatosis 1 – associated and sporadic pilocytic astrocytomas. Cancer Res 2002; 62:2085-2091. PMID: 1192982 |
| Modur V, Nagarajan R, Evers BM, and Milbrandt J. FOXO proteins regulate TRAIL expression: Implications for PTEN mutation in prostate cancer. J Biol Chem 2005;25: 47928-47937. PMID 12351634 |
| Nagarajan R. Le N, Mahoney H, Araki T, and Milbrandt J. Deciphering peripheral nerve myelination by using Schwann cell expression profiling. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 20023;99: 8998-9003. PMID: 12084938; PMCID: PMC124412 |
| Young A, Nagarajan R, and Longmore G. Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation by Rb- E2F segregate by biological pathway. Oncogene 2003;22:7209-7217. PMID: 14562049 |
| Walter MJ, Park JS, Lau SK, Li X, Lane AA, Nagarajan R, Shannon WD, and ley TJ. Expression profiling of murine acute promyelocytic leukemia cells reveals multiple model-dependent progression signatures. Mol Cell Biol 2004:24:10882-10893. PMID: 15572690; PMCID: PMC533966 |
| Nagarajan R, Ahmed M, and Phatak A. Database Challenges in the Integration of Biomedical Data Sets. In Proceedings of VLDB Conference, Toronto, Canada. August 2004. |