PhD, Panjab University, India
Metastasis is a step in advanced cancer development that is lethal as cancer cells often spread to bone. The current understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of bone metastasis is still not clear. Pratap is investigating cellular and molecular events during bone and cancer cell interactions that influence cancer cell survival during metastases. His team combines genetics, molecular, biochemical and cell biological approaches to address two aspects of bone metastasis: growth factor signaling and cancer cell metabolism.
Jitesh Pratap, PhD, is an associate professor of Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology at Rush University Medical Center. Pratap received his PhD degree from Panjab University, India. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he began his studies of metastatic breast cancer and showed that nuclear protein runx2 promotes cancer-related properties. He serves on the editorial board of Gene, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry and PLOS ONE.