Medical College of Georgia
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical College of Georgia
Department of Surgery: Urology
Medical College of Georgia
Department of Urology
Administration
Department of The Graduate School
Program Director, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Lokeshwar has mentored more than eighty graduate and medical students, residents, postdoctoral and clinical fellows, and faculty, some of whom have become tenured professors and directors in their institutions, leaders in biomedical industries and physician-researchers. I participate in didactic graduate and undergraduate medical education (UGME). She has consistently received Exemplary Teaching Awards for UGME and she was the winner of the 20th MCG Raft Debate, Sponsored by MCG Alumni Association. Bench-to-bedside research is Dr. Lokeshwar’s passion, as is teaching and mentoring.
The research projects in her lab begin with a clinical problem and the workflow always is “clinic to lab and back again” with a focus on biomarkers and experimental therapeutics related to bladder and renal cell carcinomas, and collaborative projects on benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer. Dr. Lokeshwar’s lab has been continuously funded by grants from the NIH and other agencies. She has published over one hundred original research and review articles, book chapters and has co-edited a book on bladder cancer. Dr. Lokeshwar has received numerous awards for her research work including, Augusta University’s Outstanding Research Scholarship and/or Creative Activity Award, Outstanding Basic Science Investigator Georgia Cancer Center SBUR/SWIU Research Award for Excellence in Urologic Research, Society for Basic Urological Research Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Lokeshwar credits basic science and clinical collaborators, and her mentees/staff for the research programs in her lab.
