Surendra Rajpurohit
Other Faculty
Academic Appointment(s)
Medical College of Georgia
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
College of Science and Mathematics
Department of Biological Sciences
Administration
Department of Biological Sciences
Education
Awards & Honors
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FAHA
American Heart Association, 2023
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Mentorship, Summer Scholarship Program
CURS (Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship), 2020
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Mentorship, Summer Scholar Program
CURS Center for Undergraduate Research Service, 2019
Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year
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BIOM 8215
Fundamentals of Oncology I
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CURS 2990
Undergrad Research I
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CURS 3990
Undergrad Research II
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CURS 4990
Undergrad Research III
Teaching Interests
Fundamentals of Basic Oncology
Scholarship
Selected Recent Publications
- Development of a Transparent Transgenic Zebrafish Cellular Phenotype Tg(6xNF-kB:EGFP); Casper(roy−/−, nacre−/−) to Study NF-kB Activity, 2023
Journal Article, Professional Journal
- Development of a novel purification protocol to isolate and identify brain microglia, 2022
Journal Article, Professional Journal
- Development of Tg(UAS:SEC-Hsa.ANXA5-YFP,myl7:RFP); Casper(roy−/−,nacre−/−) Transparent Transgenic In Vivo Zebrafish Model to Study the Cardiomyocyte Function, 2021
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- ARQiv-HTS, a versatile whole-organism screening platform enabling in vivo drug discovery at high-throughput rates., 2016
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- First quantitative high-throughput screen in zebrafish identifies novel pathways for increasing pancreatic β-cell mass., 2015
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Research Interests
Development of Transgenic Zebrafish Model Organism to study the Microglia Function in health and disease condition with special reference to Inflammatory process (NFkB) and Apoptosis (Annexin-V) in Brain Tumor and Heart disease. EGFR/sEGFR-Breast Cancer Research, Role of soluble isoforms (extra cellular domains) of EGFR Family members in targeted therapeutics and establishment of sEGFR as Biomarker in Cancer Research. In-vivo automated HTS Drug Discovery by using Zebrafish model in Diabetes beta cell neogenesis and proliferation, Creation of acute hypoxia in zebrafish model and its impact on Cardiovascular Biology.
College Service
University Service
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AU Statutes Review committee
2022 - Present
Role: Committee Member
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CURS Research Mentor
2018 - Present
Role: Mentor
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AU Faculty Sentae Faculty Development Committee
2022 - 2024
Role: Committee Member
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Treasurer, Augusta University Faculty Senate Executive Committee
2019 - 2022
Role: University Senate Service
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Senator, Augusta University Faculty Senate
2019 - 2021
Role: University Senate Service
Professional Service
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Journal, IJERPH (MDPI); Special Issue: Blood Cells, Hematopoiesis, Molecules, Nanomedicine and Diseases Research
2020 - Present
Role: Editor, Journal Editor
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Gene Journal
2017 - Present
Role: Reviewer
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CTPOJ
2016 - Present
Role: Editor, Associate Editor
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Tumor Biology
2016 - Present
Role: Reviewer, Journal Article
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International Journal of Cardiology
2011 - Present
Role: Reviewer, Journal Article
