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Nishanth Ulhas Nair, Ph.D.

Nishanth Ulhas Nair, Ph.D.

  • Center for Cancer Research
  • National Cancer Institute

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Dr. Nishanth Ulhas Nair is a computational biologist working in the fields of cancer biology, computational and systems biology, and bioinformatics. He specializes in cancer drug response predictions, genetic interactions, and cancer risk. 

Areas of Expertise

Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Cancer Biology
Machine Learning
Genetic Interactions
Cancer Risk

Publications

Selected Recent Publications

Synthetic lethality across normal tissues is strongly associated with cancer risk, onset, and tumor suppressor specificity

*Cheng K, *Nair NU, Lee JS, Ruppin E. (*co-first authors)
Science Advances. 7(1): eabc2100, 2021.
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Synthetic lethality-mediated precision oncology via the tumor transcriptome

Lee JS, Nair NU, Dinstag G, Chapman L, Sinha S, Wang K, Cha H, Hwang S, Rubin E, Lazar V, Berger R, Kim D, Chung Y, Schperberg AV, Srinivasan A, Beker T, Ronai Z, Hannenhalli S, Gilbert MR, Kurzrock R, Lee S-H, Aldape K, Ruppin E.
Cell. 2021.
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Cross-species identification of cancer resistance–associated genes that may mediate human cancer risk

Nair NU* et al. (co-corresponding and co-first author)
Science Advances. Vol 8, Issue 31: 2022.
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A landscape of response to drug combinations in non-small cell lung cancer

Nair NU et al.
Nature Communications. 2023.
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