Dr. Nilesh Kumar Sharma

Associate Professor
Department of Biotechnologty
D.Y. Patil Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Institute
India

Professor Microbiology
Biography

"Dr. Nilesh Kumar Sharma is a Associate Professor, Department of ""Biotechnology in D.Y. Patil Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Institute, India. His area of specialization is DNA repair and drug resistance in cancer and his experimental methods are Human carcinoma, normal cell line and carcinoma patient tissue."

Research Intrest

"DNA repair and drug resistance in cancer. Investigating the landscape of DNA repair and epigenetics mechanisms in cancer drug resistance. Implications of small non-coding RNA in cancer pathophysiology "

List of Publications
Sharma NK (2014) Development of mitochondria targeted nanocarrier conjugated drugs against breast cancer. J Cancer Sci Ther 6:9.
Sharma NK, Reyes A, Green P, Caron MJ, Gordon DM, Hunter S, Holt IJ and Santos JA (2012) Human telomerase works in mitochondria as an hTR independent reverse transcriptase. Nucleic Acid Research 40: 712-725.
Sharma NK, Lebedeva M , Thomas T, Kovalenko O, Stumpf J, Shadel G and Santos J (2014) Intrinsic DNA ligase III and mitochondrial DNA repair defects in Ataxia Telangiectasia. DNA Repair 13: 22-31.