Jairaj K. Acharya

Senior Investigator
Cancer and Developmental Biology Laboratory
The Center for Cancer Research
United States of America

Professor Oncology
Biography

Dr. Jairaj Acharya obtained his M.B.B.S. from the University of Gulbarga (Government Medical College, Bellary), India, in 1985 and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1993 under Prof. Appaji Rao. He joined Dr. Charles Zuker at the University of California, San Diego as an associate of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for his postdoctoral training. He was recruited by the NCI in 1999. 

Research Intrest

Cell Biology, Genetics and Genomics, Neuroscience 

List of Publications
Kunduri G, Yuan C, Parthibane V, Nyswaner KM, Acharya JK, et al. (2014) Phosphatidic acid phospholipase A1 mediates ER-Golgi transit of a family of G protein-coupled receptors. J. Cell Biol. 206: 79-95
Masood MA, Rao RP, Acharya JK, Blonder J, Veenstra TD (2012) Quantitation of multiple sphingolipid classes using normal and reversed-phase LC-ESI-MS/MS: comparative profiling of two cell lines. Lipids. 47: 209-26.
Kosakowska-Cholody T, Lin J, Srideshikan SM, Scheffer L, Acharya JK, et al. (2014) HKH40A downregulates GRP78/BiP expression in cancer cells Cell Death Dis 5: e1240