Biography:
Venketesh K. Panda is a graduate student and a DST-INSPIRE Senior Research Fellow working in the field of cancer immunology and tumor microenvironment. He is a University Gold Medalist with an h-index of 6 and an i10-index of 6, with more than 350 citations. He has published research articles in reputed international journals including Molecular Cancer (Impact Factor 37), Biomedicines, Cancers, and other peer-reviewed journals. His research is carried out under the supervision of Prof. Gopal C. Kundu, a renowned cancer biologist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardee.
Title : Osteopontin-induced M2 macrophage polarization via PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in melanoma and its inhibition by andrographolide