Research at
Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation
At Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation, we firmly believe that the strongest weapon in fighting cancer is the sound understanding and knowledge of cancer. In order to improve this understanding of cancer through a scientific approach, the foundation has set up state-of-the-art research facilities, which undertake cutting edge research in the field of oncology. Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation is recognized by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (DSIR - SIRO)
RESEARCH AREAS
CLINICAL RESEARCH
BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
PREVENTIVE & COMMUNITY ONCOLOGY RESEARCH
RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
The research laboratory is located in our dedicated research block - Sri Sharada Kripa. The state of the art laboratory houses the latest, cutting edge technology in oncological research, including Mass Spectromtery, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), Sanger Sequencer, Real Time PCR (RT-PCR), Fluoroscence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) and Immuno Histo Chemistry (IHC).
Our Tumour Bio Bank can store upto 15,000 samples along with the blood sample. A dedicated scientist is responsible for the Bio Bank. Fresh tissues from all cancers are anonymized, coded and stored in the Bio Bank.
Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital & Research Centre is a member of the Indian Cancer Genome Atlas (ICGA)
and has collaborations with
Systems and Precision Cancer Medicine Team - Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Indian Council of Medical Research
Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore,
The team at Sri Shankara National Centre for Cancer Prevention and Research are enabled to conduct community, preventive, economic and epidemiological research through customized technology including a custom built, satellite enabled mobile cancer units.
RESEARCH FACULTY
3 Senior Post Doctoral Scientists guide the research projects conducted in collaboration with Clinical Faculty attached to Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.
The staff of the research centre include 6 research associates and a Bio Informatician.
The insitute proposes to induct 3 more post doctoral scientists to expand the research activity.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation's efforts towards understanding cancer, improving treatment outcomes and developing interventions to prevent cancer are focused on some of the most common cancers in the Indian population. This includes Ovarian Cancers, Breast Cancers, Gastro-Intestinal Cancers, Lung, Head and Neck Cancers, Urinary Bladder Cancers and Blood cancers (Leukemias and Lymphomas).
With the guidance from eminent academicians and professionals in our Academic Advisory Board and Institutional Ethics Committee, research meetings are held every quarter to evaluate new and ongoing research projects.
10
Completed projects
60
On Going Projects
05
Collaborations
31
Publications
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Best presentation in National Surgeon’s conference (NATCON 2021)
PDL1 Expression in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the tongue and Buccoalveolar complex - Prognostic significance
Dr Thirumanikanthan, BS Srinath, Aruna Korlimarla, Hari PS, Rekha V Kumar
Presented virtually in San Antonio Breast Cancer Congress, Dec 2021
A novel combination of a 2 gene score and TIL as a predictive Biomarker for responders to novel therapies in Indian TNBC – A population with greater proportion of TNBCs
Aruna Korlimarla, Hari PS, Jyothi Prabhu, Chantirika Ragulan , Ravi B Diwakar, Sandhya Appachu, Maggie Cheang, Rekha V Kumar, BS Srinath, TS Sridhar, Anguraj Sadananadam