Sankar Adhya
Senior Investigator
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Adhya received his Ph.D. from both the University of Calcutta and the University of Wisconsin. He was a research associate at the University of Rochester and Stanford University. He joined the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the NCI in 1971. Dr. Adhya was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1995, a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1992, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. He has also been an adjunct professor in the Department of Genetics at George Washington University since 1987. Dr. Adhya was awarded a D.Sc. degree (Honoris causa) by University of Calcutta in 2006, and was elected a Foreign Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2010.
Research Interest
gene regulation, regulatory proteins
Publications
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Lee SJ, Trostel A, Adhya S. Metabolite changes signal genetic regulatory mechanisms for robust cell behavior. MBio. 2014 Feb 28;5(1):e00972-13.
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Barupal DK, Lee SJ, Karoly ED, Adhya S. Inactivation of metabolic genes causes short-and long-range dys-regulation in Escherichia coli metabolic network. PloS one. 2013 Dec 5;8(12):e78360.
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Adhya S, Merril CR, Biswas B. Therapeutic and prophylactic applications of bacteriophage components in modern medicine. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine. 2014 Jan 1;4(1):a012518.
