Cancer Warriors and Radiobiophotonics at Cancun RRS 2017
Initiating this blog on 9/11 Remembrance Day, would like to share some of our recent events and also the program ahead from my lab.
Late Breaking Presentation
We are pleased to share that the "Late
Breaking" Research submission
Title: "Focused irradiation of EDL
muscle bundle and functional study- a feasibility study."
Dr. Rao Papineni & Dr. George Rodney
was accepted at the Radiation Research Society
(RRS 2017) Meeting at Cancun. This Work from Papineni & Rodney Labs
will showcase the Feasibility & the Novel Approach in Assessing Radiation
Effects on individual Muscle. With one in three cancer patients loosing the battle due to muscle related issues, this technological advance will
be crucial in future mitigation studies. This work will highlight the design and development of a miniaturized X-ray muscle Irradiation system.
#Cachexia #MuscleAtrophy #X-Ray
The 63rd Annual Meeting
of the Radiation Research Society is to be held at the Grand Fiesta Americana
Coral Beach in Cancun, Mexico on October 15-18, 2017. The scientific program covers state-of-the-art in radiation
sciences with an emphasis on Translating Radiation Research: From Risk to
Therapy. Here, I had the privilege to design and develop a symposium on a new and growing field of Radiobiophotonics.
SYMPOSIUM Recent Advances in Radiobiophotonics, Nanomedicine and Imaging
Chair: Dr. Rao Papineni
Look forward to seeing many of you at Cancun.
Finally, adding the short article that was requested by a Tabloid to showcase the 25 year achievement in grooming young minds towards advance science, medicine and innovation.
http://www.chennaicitynews.net/news/nextgen-cancer-warriors-in-making-by-dr-rao-v-l-papineni-53722/
NextGen Cancer Warriors in Making
by Dr. Rao V. L. Papineni
The
bitter truth is that cancer the deadly human scourge will plague humanity for
generations to come. We
might have to chalk out Moonshot, Mars, and Jupitershot battles with time, to
win this war. A silent movement has been
taking place at scores of research labs to coax, cajole, and entice young minds
to get baptized into Cancer Research. We
invite High School students and impart scientific knowledge, training, and
encouragement grooming them for future science and medicine program. High school/college students join my
laboratory or Papineni Labs Projects elsewhere during summer as interns and
broaden their horizons. We are proud to celebrate 25th summer in training young
minds akin to gurukul traditions. At every
opportunity, I keep remembering my favorite teacher (Hindi) Mr. K. Sridhar from
Hindu Theological high School, Madras.
He used to inculcate us with appropriate slokas the power and value of
knowledge transfer and to train students.
The bitter truth is that cancer the deadly human scourge will plague
humanity for generations to come.
It all started when my mentor Prof. Tom Boyde at University of HongKong asked me one summer day early 1990’s to draft a plan and proposal to train
a summer student from Eton College, United Kingdom. Thus I started with this heart-warming knowledge
transfer program. Though all students
did not directly work on cancer related projects, they definitely had scope to
pursue oncology ahead. I still recall
the first mini-project Jonathan Leong of Eton worked on- To
trick the immune machinery in making better affinity antibodies. Simple idea back in 90’s I believed, turns
out a useful path for current cancer immunotherapy.
Dr.Jyotsna Rao with Arnav and Pranayi
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They themselves have their own robust summer
training programs. This summer turned
out to be exciting with couple of high school students Arnav Sankaranthi of
Fremont, California, and Ms. Pranayi Pala of Dallas, taking courage and
embarked on a trans-continental trip to work on a collaborative project on
Radiomics. They both joined Dr. Jyotsna
Rao at Apollo Hospital India learning all about cancer Diagnostics while
working on other project. Both these
kids accomplished quite a lot during the 2- week program and are working on a
short review article. Earlier this
summer, Arnav along with his twin brother Abhinav Sankaranthi and Ms. Somya Moyya of UCSD went
through training at Dr. George Rodney’s lab at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.
students/interns
There is no clear
data; however I believe these summer research programs going on for decades all
over the globe have generated great cancer warriors. The cross-border and trans-continental
training programs will add new perspectives and sharpen the skills of the young
minds. It’s time to collaborate, exchange ideas and skills in this combat. Cancer: the horrid scourge is not
invincible.
In an Industry setup, my lab had more opportunities to young minds
from different walks of life. I am grateful to my friends and collaborators Dr.
Shahid Umar of KUMC, Dr. George Rodney, Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Jyotsna
Rao, Apollo Hospitals, and others who help in this process.Summer Science and Lab Fun
Dr.
Rao V. L. Papineni is
an Adjunct faculty member at University of Kansas Medical Center, and a
molecular theragnostics scientist at PXI, USA. He received his
doctoral degree in Biochemistry from University of Hong Kong (British Terr).
Dr. Papineni had his early education from University of Madras, where he earned
his Bachelors and Master’s Degree. After ten years in Research and Faculty
positions at University of Hong Kong and Baylor college of Medicine (USA), he
joined Kodak/Carestream Health, USA. Dr. Papineni has made several
inventions and chaired scientific sessions in International
Papineni Labs
are Biomedical Research Labs in Honor of my Father Mr. Papineni Venkateswara
Rao.
"Molecular Imaging - Wisdom to See for
Maladies to Flee"
Dr. Rao V. L. Papineni
Dr. Rao V. L. Papineni
