Innovative Research Talk with Kumaraswamy Chitrala
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala will discuss the results of his pilot research project, “Identifying Health Disparities in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy among African American and White Populations with Triple Negative Breast Cancer”.
African American and socioeconomically disadvantaged white populations face racial disparities in aggressive cancer subtypes like triple negative breast cancer. Chitrala’s research investigates the role of DNA methylation and transcriptomic profiles in TNBC disparities, using transcriptome-wide association study to analyze single-cellular levels. Through his Pilot award, he identifies critical genes influencing racial disparities in TNBC patients.
About the Speaker
Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at the University of Houston. His core interests include bioinformatics and computational biology, statistical genetics, epidemiology, epigenetics, cancer biology, health disparities, neurological disorders and aging. Chitrala’s research integrates experimental approaches with transcriptomic, genomic data analysis tools and algorithms that perform a broad range of data analysis for emerging genomic technologies. Chitrala has published over 53 peer-reviewed papers and presented his research regionally, nationally, and internationally.
- Location
- Online
- Cost
- Free