Jairaj K. Acharya

Senior Investigator
Cancer and Developmental Biology Laboratory
University of California
United States of America

Scientist Oncology
Biography

Dr. Jairaj Acharya obtained his M.B.B.S. from the University of Gulbarga (Government Medical College, Bellary), India, in 1985 and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1993 under Prof. Appaji Rao. He joined Dr. Charles Zuker at the University of California, San Diego as an associate of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for his postdoctoral training. He was recruited by the NCI in 1999.

Research Intrest

Cell Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Neuroscience

List of Publications
Kosakowska-Cholody T, Lin J, Srideshikan SM, Scheffer L, Tarasova NI, Acharya JK (2014) HKH40A downregulates GRP78/BiP expression in cancer cells.Cell Death Dis. 5: e1240.