Dipanjan Basu, PhD

Greater Pittsburgh Area United States

Research Instructor at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Education

Molecular cell biologist with an interest in signal transduction pathways implicated in tumorigenesis as well as cancer progression. Specific interests include role of self-renewing, clonogenically proliferating tumor initiating cells in tumor initiation, maintenance and progression, developing in vitro models to study these cells and therapeutic strategies to induce cell death in tumor initiating stem cells. Recently developed a 3D culture technique for growing tumor cells from Neurocutaneous melanocytosis patients and successfully used clonogenically growing sphere colonies as in vitro experimental model in cell viability and drug-sensitivity assays. Ongoing projects include studying m...