Sanjay Kansra, MD

Titles
Investigator, Children's Research Institute, assistant professor, Pediatrics, The Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Endocrinology/Diabetes

Research center/program
Max McGee National Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes

Research interests
Diabetes/obesity

Study interests
Pancreatic beta cell death, cell proliferation and cell death.

Education
Doctorate, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia MO, 1995.

Honors
NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship (Institutional), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999; Young Investigators Award for the 1999 AACR Annual meeting, 1999; Travel Fellowship for Excellence in Research, Office of the Graduate Dean of the University of Missouri-Columbia, 1995; Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Missouri - Columbia, 1990.

Representative publications

  • Kaldunski M, Jia S, Geoffrey R, Basken J, Prosser S, Kansra S, Mordes JP, Lernmark A, Wang S, Hessner MJ. Identification of a Serum-induced Transcriptional Signature Associated with Type 1 Diabetes in the BioBreeding rat. Diabetes. 2010 Oct.; 59(10):2375-85.
  • Bangaru MLY, Woodliff J, Raff H and Kansra S. Growth Suppression of Mouse Pituitary Corticotroph Tumor AtT20 cells by Curcumin: A Model for Treating Cushing's Disease. PLoS One. 2010 Apr.; 13;5(4):e9893..
  • Kansra S, Chen S, Bangaru MLY, Sneade L, Dunckley JA and Ben-Jonathan N. Selective Estrogen Receptor Down-regulator and Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators Differentially Regulate Lactotroph Proliferation. PLoS One. 2010 Apr. 19; 5(4):e10060.
  • Bangaru MLY, Chen S, Woodliff J and Kansra S. Curcumin (diferuloymethane) Induces Apoptosis and Blocks Migration of Human Medulloblastoma Cells. Anticancer Research. 2010 Feb.; 30(2):499-504.
  • Chen S, Bangaru MLY, Sneade L, Dunckley JA, Gen-Jonathan N. and Kansra S. Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Cross-talks with Ligand Occupied Estrogen Receptor   to Modulate Both Lactotroph Proliferation and Prolactin Gene Expression. American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology & Metabolism. 2009 Aug., 297(2):E331-9. PMID: 19470835.
  • Ben-Jonathan N, Chen S, Dunckley J, LaPensee C and Kansra S.  Estrogen Receptor  Mediates Epidermal Growth Factor Induced Prolactin Release in Lactotrophs. Endocrinology.  2009 Feb.;150(2):795-802. PMID: 18832099.

 Grants

  • Advancing Healthier Wisconsin Grant, Development of Selective Estrogen Receptor Down-regulators as Novel Therapeutics in the Treatment of Prolactinomas, principal investigator.
  • American Cancer Societry Pilot Grant, Regulation of Lactotroph Proliferation by Estrogen Receptor Mediated Non-genomic Signaling, principal investigator. 
  • American Cancer Society Pilot Grant, Regulation of Lactotroph Proliferation by Estrogen Receptor: Role of Non-genomic Signaling and Cross Talk with ErbB1, principal investigator.

Contact information
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Max McGee Center, HRC 5860
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 456-4906
Fax: (414) 456-6516
E-mail: skansra@mcw.edu

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