Main areas of research:

Spinal cord injury - secondary pathogenesis and Brain tumors- Gene therapy

Interests/keywords:

Neuro biology of Brain diseases, Brain tumor biology

Current title/position:

Post Doctoral Research associate

Current affiliation/employer:

WUSTL

PhD Advisor and University:

Prof. T Suryanarayana, University of Hyderabad

Publications:

1: Kotipatruni RP, Ferraro DJ, Ren X, Vanderwaal RP, Thotala DK, Hallahan DE,
Jaboin JJ. NDRG4, the N-Myc downstream regulated gene, is important for cell
survival, tumor invasion and angiogenesis in meningiomas. Integr Biol (Camb).
2012 Aug 7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 22869042.


2: Kotipatruni RR, Dasari VR, Veeravalli KK, Dinh DH, Fassett D, Rao JS. p53- and
Bax-mediated apoptosis in injured rat spinal cord. Neurochem Res. 2011
Nov;36(11):2063-74. Epub 2011 Jul 7. PubMed PMID: 21748659.

3. Ramaprasada Rao Kotipatruni, Arun Kumar Nalla, Swapna Asuthkar, Christopher S. Gondi, Dzung H. Dinh, Jasti S. Rao
Apoptosis Induced by Knockdown of uPAR and MMP-9 is Mediated by Inactivation of EGFR/STAT3 Signaling in Medulloblastoma .PLoS ONE: Research Article, published 12 Sep 2012 doi10.1371/journal.pone.0044798.

4. Ferraro DJ, Bhave SR, Kotipatruni RP, Hunn JC, Wildman SA, Hong C, Dadey DY, Muhoro LK, Jaboin JJ, Thotala D, Hallahan DE.High-throughput identification of putative receptors for cancer-binding peptides using biopanning and microarray analysis. Integr Biol (Camb). 2013 Jan 28;5(2):342-50. doi: 10.1039/c2ib20187a.