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Easwari Kumaraswamy, Ph.D.

Kumaraswamy Easwari portrait
Research Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
ekumaraswamy@kumc.edu

Professional Background

Doctor Kumaraswamy is a member of the Jensen Laboratory. Research Assistant Professor, KUMC Pathology since July 30, 2009. Senior Research Scientist, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, Pennsylvania; July 2008 – July 2009. Associate Staff Scientist at the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia Pennsylvania from August 2001 - June 2005.

Education and Training
  • PhD, Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
  • MSC, Biochemistry, Bharathidasan University, Trichy, Tamil Nadu
  • Post Doctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Selected Publications
  • Li D, Harlan-Williams LM, Kumaraswamy E, Jensen RA. 2019. BRCA1-No Matter How You Splice It.. Cancer research, 79 (9), 2091-2098
  • Stecklein SR, Kumaraswamy E, Behbod F, Wang W, Chaguturu V, Harlan-Williams LM, Jensen RA. 2012. BRCA1 and HSP90 cooperate in homologous and non-homologous DNA double-strand-break repair and G2/M checkpoint activation.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 (34), 13650-5
  • Shrimali RK, Weaver JA, Miller GF, Starost MF, Carlson BA, Novoselov SV, Kumaraswamy E, Gladyshev VN, Hatfield DL. 2007. Selenoprotein expression is essential in endothelial cell development and cardiac muscle function.. Neuromuscular disorders : NMD, 17 (2), 135-42
  • Kumaraswamy E, Shiekhattar R. 2007. Activation of BRCA1/BRCA2-associated helicase BACH1 is required for timely progression through S phase.. Molecular and cellular biology, 27 (19), 6733-41