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Anuradha S. Budhu, Ph.D.

Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis Liver Carcinogenesis Section Staff Scientist National Cancer Institute Building 37, Room 3044 37 Convent Drive Bethesda, MD 20892 Phone:   301-496-5887 Fax:   301-496-0497 E-Mail:   budhua@mail.nih.gov

Biography

Dr. Anuradha Budhu began her scientific career as a student researcher in the Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) at the University of Arizona, studying gene expression patterns in the larval brain of Drosophila Melanogaster. These studies were continued at The University of Adelaide in Australia through the UBRP Biomedical Research Abroad Vistas Open (Bravo!) Program funded by a Howard Hughes fellowship. After completion of her bachelor's honors degree (Cum Laude)in Biochemistry/Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Arizona, Dr. Budhu joined the graduate program in Biochemistry at Cornell University, where she studied retinoids and their effect on mammary carcinoma. In 2002, she joined the Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis at NCI as a Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) postdoctoral fellow in the Liver Carcinogenesis Section. She was promoted to Staff Scientist in 2007.

Research

Dr. Budhu's research interests include studies of human liver cancer, specifically addressing the elucidation of molecular mechanisms involved in hepatocarcinogenesis, including metastasis. These avenues are explored through global molecular and genetic profiling as well as functional experimentation with an emphasis on clinical translation.

This page was last updated on 4/21/2009.