Dr. Kanneboyina Nagaraju

Founding Chair and Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Binghamton University
United States of America

Professor Immunology
Biography

Kanneboyina Nagaraju received his bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine from the College of Veterinary Sciences, Tirupati, India, in 1986; his master’s degree in veterinary immunology from the prestigious Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, in 1989; and his PhD in immunology from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India in 1995. Immediately after completing his PhD, he came to the United States to do a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md.

Research Intrest

Immunology Neuromuscular diseases Autoimmune diseases D rug development

List of Publications
Nagaraju K, Casciola‐Rosen L, Lundberg I, Rawat R, Cutting S, Thapliyal R, Chang J, Dwivedi S, Mitsak M, Chen YW, Plotz P. Activation of the endoplasmic reticulum stress response in autoimmune myositis: potential role in muscle fiber damage and dysfunction. Arthritis & Rheumatology. 2005 Jun 1;52(6):1824-35.
Nagaraju K, Raben N, Loeffler L, Parker T, Rochon PJ, Lee E, Danning C, Wada R, Thompson C, Bahtiyar G, Craft J. Conditional up-regulation of MHC class I in skeletal muscle leads to self-sustaining autoimmune myositis and myositis-specific autoantibodies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2000 Aug 1;97(16):9209-14.
Casciola-Rosen L, Nagaraju K, Plotz P, Wang K, Levine S, Gabrielson E, Corse A, Rosen A. Enhanced autoantigen expression in regenerating muscle cells in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2005 Feb 21;201(4):591-601.