Dissertation Mentor
Education & Training
- Bachelor of Science, Biotechnology-Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-India
- Master-University of Houston-Clear Lake. Houston, TX
Representative Publications
Piyarathna DW, et al. Distinct Lipidomic Landscapes Associated with Clinical Stages of Urothelial Cancer of the Bladder. Eur Urol Focus (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2017.04.005
Feng Jin.et.al.Tobacco-specific carcinogens induce hypermethylation, DNA adducts and DNA damage in Bladder Cancer.Cancer Prevention Research 2017, doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-17-0198
Sri Ramya Donepudi.et.al. Expression of ganglioside GD2, reprogram the lipid metabolismand EMT phenotype in bladder cancer. Oncotarget(2017), doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.21038.
Chandrashekar R Ambati.et.al Measurement of methylated metabolites using Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and its biological application. Analytical methods (2018). doi: 10.1039/C8AY02168F.
Vantaku.et.al: Large-scale profiling of serum metabolites in African American and European American bladder cancer patients reveals metabolic pathways associated with patient survival. Cancer. 2019 Mar 15;125(6):921-932. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31890.
Chandrashekar Amara.et.al. Serum metabolic profiling identified a distinct metabolic signature in Bladder Cancer Smokers: A key metabolic enzymes associated with patient survival. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 Apr;28(4):770-781. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-18-0936.
Vantaku.et.al: Multi-omics Integration Analysis Robustly Predicts High-Grade Patient Survival and Identifies CPT1B Effect on Fatty Acid Metabolism in Bladder Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 Jun 15;25(12):3689-3701. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-1515.
Hu Q.et.al: Oncogenic lncRNA downregulates cancer cell antigen presentation and intrinsic tumor suppression. Nat Immunol. 2019 Jul;20(7):835-851. doi: 10.1038/s41590-019-0400-7.
Vantaku.et.al: DNA methylation patterns in bladder tumors of African-American patients point to distinct alterations in xenobiotic metabolism. Carcinogenesis. 2019 Jul 8. pii: bgz128. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgz128.
Vantaku.et.al Epigenetic loss of AOX1 expression via EZH2 leads to metabolic deregulations and promotes bladder cancer progression. Oncogene. 2019 Aug 5. doi: 10.1038/s41388-019-0902-7