Utthara Nayar

Utthara Nayar is a cancer researcher based in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work focuses specifically on breast cancer.

Biography Nayar lived in the country of Oman during her childhood. She is also a member of a team at Harvard Medical School as a research affiliate.

Research At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Nayar and her team have been investigating metastatic breast cancer and how hormones affect patient treatment.

Publications +Journal PublicationsYearPublication2013Nayar, U., Pin Lu, Goldstein, R. L., Vider, J., Ballon, G., Rodina, A.... Cesarman, E. (2013). Targeting the Hsp90-associated viral oncoproteome in gammaherpesvirus-associated malignancies. Blood, 122(16), 2837–2847. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2013-01-479972 2017Nayar, U., Sadek, J., Reichel, J., Hernandez-Hopkins, D., Akar, G., Barelli, P. J.... Cesarman, E. (2017). Identification of a nucleoside analog active against adenosine kinase-expressing plasma cell malignancies. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 127(6), 2066–2080. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI83936

Awards and recognition In 2012 while at Cornell, Nayar was awarded the AACR-Aflac, Inc. Scholar-in-Training Award.