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Neelu Puri, PhD

Translational Oncology Research Program

Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Medicine 

Email: neelupur@uic.edu

Neelu Puri, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford, a regional campus of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Her cancer therapy research focuses on developing novel targeted therapies using T-oligo. She and her team have found T-oligo (nucleotides homologous to the telomere overhang) to be therapeutically effective in lung cancer and melanoma cells and pre-established tumor xenografts by inducing apoptosis and senescence. Her work in lung cancer aims to unravel the mechanism of EGFR/c-Met tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) resistance in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) by studying the signaling pathways in resistant and parental NSCLC cell lines with and without EGFR TK mutations. Her research on melanoma includes successfully evaluating the role of c-Met as a molecular target.

Language : English

Education

  • PhD, All India Institute of Medical Science

Published Research

Other Link(s)

Department Webpage

Research Focus

  • Translational Oncology
  • T-oligo
  • EGFR/c-Met Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor (TKI) Resistance
  • Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • c-Met
  • Melanoma
  • Nanoparticles