Radhika Nair

Radhika Nair is an Indian cancer biology researcher. She currently serves as the Ramanujan Faculty Fellow at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, in Trivandrum, India, and senior research officer at Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She specializes in understanding the cell intrinsic mechanisms that allow tumor cells to survive, go dormant and then thrive, specifically in breast cancer.

Education and career

After receiving a BSc. in microbiology and biochemistry at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, in 1996 and an MSc in biochemistry at the Institute of Science, Mumbai in 1998, Nair received a PhD from the National Institute of Immunology, India, at Delhi in 2003. Her PhD work focused on germ cell death. Nair also lectured at St. Vincent's Clinical School at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Hochgräfe F, Zhang L, O'Toole SA, Browne BC, Pinese M, Cubas AP, Lehrbach GM, Croucher DR, Rickwood D, Boulghourjian A, Shearer R. Tyrosine phosphorylation profiling reveals the signaling network characteristics of Basal breast cancer cells. Cancer research. 2010 Nov 15;70(22):9391-401. Cited 122 times. O'Toole SA, Machalek DA, Shearer RF, Millar EK, Nair R, Schofield P, McLeod D, Cooper CL, McNeil CM, McFarland A, Nguyen A. Hedgehog overexpression is associated with stromal interactions and predicts for poor outcome in breast cancer. Cancer research. 2011 Jun 1;71(11):4002-14. Cited 80 times