Thottala Jayaraman
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Thottala Jayaraman, PhD
Dr. Thottala Jayaraman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences at the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He received PhD from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. After completing his post-doctoral fellowships at Yale University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he joined Columbia University faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine. In addition, he held additional joint appointments as an Associate Director of Vascular Biology Research Program and an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York before joining as a faculty member in the department of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Jayaraman’s current research is focused on the role of calcium signaling in both physiological and pathological human disorders, including human acute pancreatitis. He has been collaborating with Sohail Husain, MD, from Stanford University on the role of calcineurin (calcium-dependent serine threonine phosphatase) in acute pancreatitis, which was funded by the Department of Defense. This collaborative research with a goal to prevent post-ERCP has yielded many peer-reviewed publications. In addition, his work on the role of calcium binding bioactive lipids and phosphoproteins would be expected to advance our understanding of their role in biomineralization.
Dr. Jayaraman served as a Reviewer for several journals, namely, Journal of Immunology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, the Journal of Dental Research, the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Scientific Reports, Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, and the Journal of Neurological Sciences.
View a list of Dr. Jayaraman’s publications here [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=thottala+jayaraman]
CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. Thottala Jayaraman
Phone: (412) 383-5495 Email: tja12@pitt.edu