Prof. Prabhudas Patel

Dr. Prabhudas S. Patel is currently a Professor & Head of Cancer Biology Department at GCRI. Dr. Patel is investigating role of glycosylation in relation to the development and progression of different types of cancer mainly tobacco related cancers. His group has now established the role of sialylation, fucosylation and many cellular glycoprotein antigens in cancer initiation and progression. The data obtained from his long-standing research have strongly support that “Glycosylation is a new hallmark of cancer”, which is the most recent phenomenon in cancer research. Now, his group is working on salivary glycosylation to establish saliva as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for oral cancer. He is also involved in studying molecular pathogenesis of oral cancer and breast cancer in relevance p53 and its clinical significance. His group is also involved in investigations of HPV infections in HPV related cancers. Recently, he is also working on BCR-ABL independent molecular mechanisms in Imatinib resistant CML.