About
Professional SummaryI have been a pioneer scientist in the field of cancer research & stem cells for the last 35 years. I worked as a senior scientist for 20 years at Tata Memorial Center and was Head and Chief of the Molecular Medicine and Biology Laboratory at Jaslok Hospital & Research Center, Mumbai. I was a recipient of the prestigious National Institute of Health(NIH)and M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, USA, award.
Education
Academic Background-
Ph.D. Mumbai University, India Applied Biological Sciences | Completed: 1991
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M.Sc. Mumbai University, India Biochemistry | Completed: 1978
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B.Sc. Mumbai University, India Applied Chemistry and Biology | Completed: 1974
Publications (41)
Selected Scholarly Contributions
Current challenges in the therapeutic use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in cancer therapy
2017
Molecular characterization of cancer-associated fibroblasts isolated from human colorectal cancer as a major stromal cell component promoting metastasis.
Pravin D. Potdar
2017
Profiling of circulating tumor cells in liquid biopsies from metastatic cancer patients.
Pravin D. Potdar
2017
Circulating tumor cells: Hope to diagnose and treat metastatic cancer.
Pravin D. Potdar
2017
Molecular biomarkers for diagnosis and therapies of Alzheimer's disease.
Pravin D. Potdar
2016
Evaluation of anti-metastatic effect of chitosan nanoparticles on esophageal cancer-associated fibroblasts.
Pravin D. Potdar
2016
Cellular, molecular and therapeutic advances in type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Pravin D. Potdar
2016
Role of circulating tumor cells in future diagnosis and therapy of cancer.
Pravin D. Potdar
2015
Human dental pulp mesenchymal stem cells and their applications in future regenerative medicine.
Pravin D. Potdar
2015
Fabrication and characterization of PCL/gelatin/chitosan ternary nanofibrous composite scaffold for tissue engineering applications.
Pravin D. Potdar
2014
Surface modification of nanofibrous polycaprolactone/gelatin composite scaffold by collagen type I grafting for skin tissue engineering.
Pravin D. Potdar
2014
HBx gene expression is a sensitive indicator of chronic Hepatitis B infection than expression of HBV surface, core and polymerase gene.
Pravin D. Potdar
2014
Molecular Diagnosis of Friedreich Ataxia Using Analysis of GAA Repeats and FXN Gene Exons in Population from Western India
2013
Surface modified goat-lung decellularized scaffold for bio-artificial skin tissue engineering applications.
Pravin D. Potdar
2013
Fabrication and characterization of scaffold from cadaver goat-lung tissue for skin tissue engineering applications.
Pravin D. Potdar
2013
Establishment and molecular characterization of human dermal mesenchymal-like stem cells derived from human scalp biopsy of androgenetic alopecia patient.
Pravin D. Potdar
2013
Development of sequence based molecular diagnostic test to evaluate MDR and XDR in M. tuberculosis patients from Western India.
Pravin D. Potdar
2013
Review on molecular diagnostic techniques in Friedreich's ataxia.
Pravin D. Potdar
2013
Localization and molecular characterization of human breast cancer initiating cells from heterogeneous population of breast cancer mesenchymal stem cells by immunofluorescence microscopy.
Pravin D. Potdar
2012
Defining heterogeneity of human non-metastatic breast cancer tumor by identifying individual cell types using cellular and molecular markers.
Pravin D. Potdar
2012
Drug resistance mutations to protease and reverse transcriptase inhibitors in treatment naive HIV-1 clade C infected individuals from Mumbai, India.
Pravin D. Potdar
2011
Establishment and molecular characterization of breast cancer mesenchymal stem cell line derived from human non-metastasis breast cancer tumor.
Pravin D. Potdar
2011
Defining molecular phenotypes of mesenchymal and hematopoietic stem cells derived from peripheral blood of acute lymphocytic leukemia patients for regenerative stem cell therapy.
Pravin D. Potdar
2011
Isolation of Oct4+, Nanog+ and SOX2- mesenchymal cells from peripheral blood of a diabetes mellitus patient.
Pravin D. Potdar
2011
Ascorbic acid induces in vitro proliferation of human subcutaneous adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells with upregulation of embryonic stem cell pluripotency markers Oct4 and SOX 2.
Pravin D. Potdar
2010
Establishment and molecular characterization of mesenchymal stem cell lines derived from human visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissues.
Pravin D. Potdar
2010
Immunological effects and membrane interactions of chitosan nanoparticles.
Pravin D. Potdar
2009
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents differ in their ability to suppress NF-κB activation, inhibition of expression of cyclooxygenase-2 and cyclin D1 and abrogation of tumor cell proliferation.
Pravin D. Potdar
2004
Curcumin (diferuloylmethane) down-regulates cigarette smoke-induced NF-κB activation through inhibition of IκBα kinase in human lung epithelial cells: Correlation with suppression of COX-2, MMP-9 and cyclin D1.
Pravin D. Potdar
2003
Effects of an aqueous extract of processed bidi tobacco on the growth of hamster tracheal epithelial cells.
Pravin D. Potdar
2001
KPL1, which encodes a novel PH domain-containing protein, is induced during ciliated cell differentiation of rat tracheal epithelial cells.
Pravin D. Potdar
2000
1999
Cloning and characterization of KPL2, a novel gene induced during ciliogenesis of tracheal epithelial cells.
Pravin D. Potdar
1999
Establishment and characterization of normal and initiated hamster tracheal epithelial cell system.
Pravin D. Potdar
1999
Expression and regulation of γ-glutamyl transpeptidase-related enzyme in tracheal cells.
Pravin D. Potdar
1997
Modulation by vitamin C of tumour incidence and inhibition in oral carcinogenesis.
Pravin D. Potdar
1992
Light and electron microscopic study of hamster cheek pouch treated with 9,10 dimethyl 1,2 benzanthracene and retinoic acid.
Pravin D. Potdar
1989
Effect of DMBA and retinyl acetate on DMBA induced carcinogenesis in the hamster cheek pouch.
Pravin D. Potdar
1988
Dose response effect of retinyl acetate on DMBA induced carcinogenesis in the hamster cheek pouch.
Pravin D. Potdar
1983
Assessment of vitamin C in women taking oral combination contraceptives.
Pravin D. Potdar
1981
Fluctuation in erythrocytes enzymes in individuals.
Pravin D. Potdar
1980