Manoj Kashyap
Amity University Haryana, India
- Orcid: 0000-0002-3064-8452
- Publications: 47
- Citations: 5177
- Keywords: RNA splicing, tumor microenvironment, CXCR4, CXCL12, spliceosome, RNAseq, Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, ESCC
Short Bio
- Dr. Manoj K Kashyap obtained his masters' degree in Biotechnology from the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), C. C. S. University, Meerut in 1998. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Banglore in Biotechnology in a joint program between IOB and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore (MD), U.S.A. under the guidance of Professor Akhilesh Pandey. Manoj was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Januario E. Castro / Prof. Thomas J Kipps at the Moores Cancer Center of the University of California, San Diego (CA), U.S.A., where he used the "Omics" tools including bioiformatics, computational biology approaches integrated with experimental tools and techniques to study RNA splicing / spliceosome biology, and role of tumor-microenvironment in solid tumors particularly gastro-intestinal malignancies. He served as an Assistant Professor for ~2 yrs at the School of Life & Allied Health Sciences, the Glocal University, Saharanpur (UP), India. Since Aug 2019, Dr Kashyap is serving as an Associate Professor at the Amity Stem Cell Institute of Amity Medical School, Amity University Haryana, Manesar (Gurugram), Haryana, India. He is the recipient of Integrated scholarship (State Govt. of UP), National Merit Scholarship, (Govt. of India), Independent Senior Res Fellowship of ICMR, New Delhi, pre-doctoral fellows from US National Science foundation (2002), visiting research scholarship (2002-2004) from NIH-NIDCD, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2004-2005), and TARE-SERB Associateship (2019-present). He serves as an Associate Editor for BMC Cancer, and Frontiers in Oncology: speciality Gastrointestinal Malignancies. He serves as an Editorial Board member of Cancer Cell International, and World Journal of Clinical Oncology.
