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Jitesh Pratap, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, RUSH Medical College
Education

PhD, Panjab University, India

Research Areas

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.

Contact Info:

1750 W. Harrison St.
Suite 1409B
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: (312) 563-4633
Fax: (312) 942-5744
jitesh_pratap@rush.edu
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Biography

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.

Honors and Activities
  • Grants in Aid Program Award, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2015
  • Alice L. Jee Young Investigator Award, 35th International Sun Valley Workshop on Skeletal Tissue Biology, Sun Valley, Idaho, 2005
  • Invited Speaker, Skeletal Complications of Malignancy Meeting, National Institutes of Health, 2005
  • Oral Presentation, Annual Meeting of American Association for Cancer Research, 2008, 2006, 2005
  • Oral Presentation, Annual Conference of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2002, 2000
Publications

Complete list of published work on PubMed

Complete list of published work on Scopus

Grants
  • METAvivor Foundation, Targeting microtubule dynamics and endosomal trafficking for bone metastasis of breast cancer
  • METAvivor Foundation, Novel regulatory mechanisms of bone metastasis
  • Piccolo/Gavers Foundation, Survival mechanisms of metastatic breast cancer