Sushma Yadav, Ph.D., is a trained biochemist and molecular biologist with more than 15 years of research experience in protein and nucleic acid biochemistry, and direct experience in the areas of protein purification and characterization, enzymology, biomarker discovery, and development of therapeutic agents. She has authored more than 40 publications in peer reviewed journals including PLOS ONE, JBC, Cancer Research, Diabetes, Biochemistry, Biochemical Pharmacology, and several reviews and book chapters. As a PI or co-investigator on several foundation, university- and NIH funded grants; She successfully administered the projects (maintaining budget, regulatory research protocols, regulatory requirements and compliances for drugs and biologics), and produced several peer-reviewed publications from each grants.
Dr. Yadav was selected as STAR (Steps Toward Academic Research) fellow by Texas Center for Health Disparities, where she had the first opportunity to interact directly with the community aim to reduce/eliminate health disparity through research, education and community relations. Utilizing her extensive previous experience in basic cancer research and health disparities, she built a platform in collaboration with senior investigators at City of Hope, and developed the project exploring the role of SMC1 in triple negative breast cancer progression and metastasis. As yet these studies have yielded very exciting and promising results which may be a prognostic biomarker for early detection and tailored therapy for triple negative breast cancer.
