Dr. Bhavya Balan Chandrika, currently working as Assistant Professor at the department of Biotechnology, CUSAT, Kerala. She has secured her MSc in Biotechnology from Calicut University and PhD in Biotechnology from Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Trivandrum, Kerala. She has carried out three year post doctoral training at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA under a NIH funded project on molecular signaling pathways. She is also the recipient of post doctoral fellowship from UGC, young Scientist Start from SERB and women scientist fellowship from DHR/ICMR.

CANCER BIOLOGY,END STAGE ORGAN FAILURE, FIBROSIS, MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTICS

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1. Hesperetin and Naringenin sensitize HER2 positive cancer cells to death by serving as HER2 Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors, , 2016

2. Endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced autophagy provides cytoprotection from chemical hypoxia and oxidant injury and ameliorates renal ischemia-reperfusion injury, , 2015

3. Endoplasmic reticulum targeted Bcl?2 inhibitable mitochondrial fragmentation initiates ER stress-induced cell death, , 2012

Identification of Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitors to Sensitize Drug-Resistant Side Population Tumor Cells Using a Cell-Based Assay Platform, , 2012

5. Bax deficiency mediated drug resistance can be reversed by endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced death signalling. Chandrika, Bhavya B., Maney, S. K., Lakshmi, S. U., Joseph, J., Seervi, , 2011

Essential requirement of cytochrome c release for caspase activationby procaspase-activating compound defined by cellular models., , 2011

4. Endoplasmic reticulum targeted Bcl2 confers long term cell survival through phosphorylation of heat shock protein 27, , 2010

6. Caspase-2 triggers Bax-Bak-dependent and -independent cell death in colon cancer cells treated with resveratrol, , 2006