Prior Academic Afflictions: BS-Chemistry, Sri KrishnaDevaraya University, Anantapur, India
MS-Medical Biochemistry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India
Mentor: Dr. Rama Natarajan
Thesis Title: Role of an Angiotensin II induced long non-coding RNA Alive in transdifferentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells to chondrocytes
Fellowships, Honors, Awards etc: American Heart Association ( AHA) pre-doctoral fellowship-2018; Indian Council of Medical Research, Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) -2012; Satya Bhama Murali Endowment gold medal prize, JIPMER-2010
Publications:
Das S, Zhang E, Senapati P, Amaram V, Reddy MA, Stapleton K, et al., Natarajan R. A Novel Angiotensin II-Induced Long Noncoding RNA Giver Regulates Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, and Proliferation in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells. Circulation research, 2018. 123:1298–1312
Das S, Reddy MA, Senapati P, Stapleton K, Lanting L, Wang M, Amaram V, Ganguly R, Zhang L, Devaraj S, Schones DE and Natarajan R. Diabetes Mellitus-Induced Long Noncoding RNA Dnm3os Regulates Macrophage Functions and Inflammation via Nuclear Mechanisms. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2018. 38(8):1806–1820.
Leung A, Amaram V and Natarajan R. Linking diabetic vascular complications with LncRNAs. Vascular pharmacology. 2019. 114, 139-144
Stapleton K, Das S, Reddy MA, Leung A, Amaram V, Lanting L, Chen Z, Zhang L, Rengasamy P, Deiuliis J, Natarajan R. A novel long non-coding RNA, MIST, regulates macrophage activation during obesity. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2020. (accepted, in press)