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Pankaj Kumar Giri

Pankaj Kumar Giri

Pankaj Kumar Giri
Pankaj Kumar Giri
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Life Sciences
Email
giripankaj@jnu.ac.in, giripankaj@mail.jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph.D. from National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2012

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Gene regulation and Epitranscriptomic Dynamics in Human Disease

Experience
  • Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, INDIA
  • Assistant Professor and Ramalingaswami Fellow, SAU, New Delhi
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, New York, USA
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
  • Teaching Assistant, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Awards & Honours
  • "Start-up Research Grant (SRG)", from Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India,2019.
  • "Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship", Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, 2019.
  • "ACA meeting 2011 Travel Grant"  by American Crystallographic Association, USA, 2011.
  • "Global Scholarship for Research Excellence" by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2011.
  • "NUS Research Scholarship" to pursue Doctoral studies at National university of Singapore, Singapore 2007 -2012.
  • "ICMR-Research Fellowship" by Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India, 2006.
  • "MHRD-GATE Scholarship" by Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India, 2006.
International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  • Alam S, Giri PK#. Emerging Role of m6A modification in Ovarian Cancer: Progression, Drug Resistance, and Therapeutic Prospects. Front Oncol.2024 Feb 14;1366223 doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1366223[Impact Factor-6.224]
  • Alam S, Giri PK#. Novel players in the development of chemoresistance in ovarian cancer: ovarian cancer stem cells, non-coding RNA and nuclear receptors. Cancer Drug Resist. 2024 Feb 28;7:6. doi: 10.20517/cdr.2023.152. PMID: 38434767; PMCID: PMC10905178. [Impact Factor-3.7]
  • Hu R, Hameed UFS, Sun X, Moorthy BS, Zhang W, Jeffrey PD, Zhou L, Ma X, Chen F, Pei J, Giri PK, Mou Y, Swaminathan K, Yuan P. A NR2E1-interacting peptide of LSD1 inhibits the proliferation of brain tumour initiating cells. Cell Proliferation. 2023 Jan;56(1):e13350. doi: 10.1111/cpr.13350. Epub 2022 Nov 2. PMID: 36321378; PMCID: PMC9816925. [Impact Factor-8.775]
  • Rothschild G1*, Zhang W1*, Lim J1*, Giri PK2, Laffleur B, Chen Y, Fang M, Chen Y, Nair L, Liu ZP, Deng H, Hammarström L, Wang J, Basu U., Noncoding RNA transcription alters chromosomal topology to promote isotype-specific class switch recombination. Science Immunology, 2020 Feb 7;5(44):eaay5864. [second author, Impact Factor-30.658]
  • Lim, J*.; Giri, P. K.*#; Kazadi, D.; Laffleur, B.; Zhang, W.; Grinstein, V.; Pefanis, E.; Brown, L. M.; Ladewig, E.; Martin, O.; Chen, Y.; Rabadan, R.; Boyer, F.; Rothschild, G.; Cogné, M.; Pinaud, E.; Deng, H.; Basu, U.#, Nuclear Proximity of Mtr4 to RNA Exosome Restricts DNA Mutational Asymmetry. Cell 169 (3), 523-537.e15. . [ *-Co-first authors, #-Co-Corresponding Author] [Impact Factor-66.58]
  • de Vera IMS, Munoz-Tello P, Dharmarajan V, Marciano DP, Matta-Camacho E, Giri PK, Shang J, Hughes TS, Rance M, Griffin PR, Kojetin DJ. (2018) Defining a canonical ligand-binding pocket in the orphan nuclear receptor Nurr1. Structure 2019 Jan 2; 27(1):66-77.e5. [Impact Factor-5.7]
  • de Vera, I.M.S.*, Giri, P.K*., Munoz-Tello, P., Brust, R., Fuhrmann, J., Matta-Camacho, E., Shang, J., Campbell, S., Wilson, H.D., Granados, J., et al. (2016). Identification of a Binding Site for Unsaturated Fatty Acids in the Orphan Nuclear Receptor Nurr1. ACS Chemical Biology 11, 1795-1799. [ *-Co-first authors] [Impact Factor-4.0]
  • Hughes TS, Giri P.K., de Vera IM, Marciano DP, Kuruvilla DS, Shin Y, Blayo AL, Kamenecka TM, Burris TP, Griffin PR, Kojetin DJ.(2014) An alternate binding site for PPARγ ligands. Nature Communications 2014 Apr 7; 5:3571[Impact Factor-16.6]
  • Giri P.K., Song FJ, ShanmugamMK, DingJL, Sethi G, Swaminathan K, Sivaraman J (2012) NMR structure of Carcinoscorpiusrotundicaudathioredoxin related protein 16 and its role in regulating transcription factor NF-κB activity .Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) 2012 Aug 24; 287(35): 29417-28[Impact Factor-4.8]
  • Giri P.K., Tang X, Thangamani S, Shenoy RT, Ding JL, Swaminathan K, SivaramanJ (2010) Modifying the substrate specificity of Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda serine protease inhibitor domain 1 to target thrombin. PLoS One 2010,5: e15258[Impact Factor-3.7]


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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.