Dr. Rajesh Singh

 Education (Post-Graduation onwards & Professional Career)

Position and Honors:

Position and Employment (Starting with the most recent employment)

 Honors/Awards

Marie Curie More Experienced Researcher NUI, Galway, Ireland-2007-2008

Recipient of Forgarty International Award for Postdoc Training

Travel Award to attend 6th Reisensberg (2000) International Symposium held at Reisensburg, Germany.

Junior Research Fellowship (1996-98) from CSIR, Govt. of India.

Senior Research Fellowship (1998-02) from CSIR, Govt. of India.

CERTIFICATE for First Position SCIENCE QUIZ at UNIVERSITY LEVEL.

CERTIFICATE for First POSITION in EXTEMPORE at UNIVERSITY LEVEL

GOLD MEDAL for getting First Position in college.

GOLD MEDAL for getting highest marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.

Many awards at the school level for academic achievements.

Awards and Certificates for excellence in essay writing and quizzes.

Professional Experience and Training relevant to the Project

12/1997– 12/1999       Junior research fellow at SG Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.

12/1999– 05/2002       Senior research fellow at SG Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.

05/2002-10/2002         Forgarty International Postdoc Fellow, NIEHS (NIH), NC, USA

10/2002 – 05/2006      Post-doctoral fellow at Center for Apoptosis Research, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University,  Philadelphia.

11/2007-02/2008         Marie Curie More Experienced Researcher NUI, Galway, Ireland

 Publication During Ph.D. and Post-doc

1.  Kumar A, Sinha RA, Tiwari M, Singh R, Koji T, Manhas N, Rastogi L, Pal L, Shrivastava A, Sahu RP, Godbole MM. Hyperthyroidism induces apoptosis in rat liver through activation of death receptor-mediated pathways. J Hepatol. 2007 May;46(5):888-98. Epub 2007 Feb 5.

2. Kumar A, Sinha RA, Tiwari M, Pal L, Shrivastava A, Singh R, Kumar K, Kumar Gupta S, Godbole MM. Increased pro-Nerve Growth Factor and p75NTR levels in developing hypothyroid rat cerebral cortex are associated with enhanced apoptosis. Endocrinology. 2006 Oct;147 (10):4893-903. Epub 2006 Jun 22

3.  Singh R*, Gupta S, Datta P, Zhang Z, Orr C, Lu Z, DuBois G, Zervos AS, Meisler MH, Srinivasula SM, Fernandes-Alnemri T, Alnemri ES (2004) The carboxy terminal tail of presenilin regulates Omi/HtrA2 protease activity.  J Biol Chem. Oct 29;279(44):45844-54.

4. Geeta Upadhyay, Rajesh Singh, Amit Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Menakshi Tiwari and Madan M. Godbole (2004) Severe hyperthyroidism induces mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis in rat liver. Hepatalogy 39(4):1120-30.

5.  Geeta Upadhyay, Rajesh Singh, Gaurav Agarwal, Lily Pal, Pradahn PK, Das BK, Saroj K. Misra and Madan M. Godbole (2002) Enhanced Expression of Sodium Iodide Symporter (hNIS) Gene in human breast carcinoma tissue. Breast Can Res Treatment 77:157-165.

6.  Rajesh Singh Geeta Upadhyay and Madan M. Godbole (2002) Hypothyroidism alters mitochondrial morphology to induce release of apoptogenic proteins in developing rat cerebellum. J Endocrinology 176(3):321-329.

7.  Geeta Upadhyay, Rajesh Singh, Ramesh Sharma, Anil K Balapure, Madan M. Godbole (2002) Iodine acts directly on mitochondria from tumoral breast tissue to induce apoptosis independent of cytochrome c. Mitochondrion 2(3):199-210.

8.  Rajesh Singh Geeta Upadhyay, Amit Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Meenakshi Tiwari and Madan M. Godbole (2002) Hypothyroidism alters expression of Bcl-2 family genes to induce apoptosis in rat developing cerebellum.  J Endocrinology 176(1): 39-46.