Office
(631) 216-9086
Email
Chitra.Thakur@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Stony Brook Cancer Center
MART Level 8, Room: 8M-0826
Lauterbur Drive
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Chitra Thakur, MS, PhD
Assistant Scientific Director, Community Outreach and Engagement
Stony Brook Cancer Center
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Research Program
Oncogenic Drivers and Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Department
Department of Pathology
Research Interest
Cancer epigenetics, environmental carcinogenesis, mouse models, big data in translational research, complementary alternative medicine in cancer. Studying the role of mineral dust induced gene (mdig) in lung and breast cancer development and metastasis.
Education
Professional Education in Applied Data Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
PhD, University of Wurzburg/ Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Wurzburg, Germany
MS, Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India
Publications
A complete list of publications can be found here.