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Pratibha Nerurkar  , PhD
Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering,College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources – University of Hawaii at Manoa

Work Email: pratibha@hawaii.eduINTERNET

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Research Interests

Traditional Hawaiian and Ayurvedic medicine, alternative medicines in obesity, insulin resistance and hyperlipidemia, insulin signaling, lipid and glucose metabolism, mitochondrial toxicity associated with obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes and drug-induced hepatotoxicity, ER function in obesity, insulin resistance and hyperlipidemia, role of reactive oxygen species and nuclear transcription factors in obesity, insulin resistance and hyperlipidemia.

Recent Publications

  • Kumar M, Roe K, Nerurkar PV, Namekar M, Orillo B, Verma S, Nerurkar VR. Impaired virus clearance, compromised immune response and increased mortality in type 2 diabetic mice infected with west nile virus. PLoS One. 2012; 7(8):e44682.
  • Nerurkar PV, Nishioka A, Eck PO, Johns LM, Volper E, Nerurkar VR. Regulation of glucose metabolism via hepatic forkhead transcription factor 1 (FoxO1) by Morinda citrifolia (noni) in high-fat diet-induced obese mice. Br J Nutr. 2012 Jul 108(2):218-28
  • Ru P, Steele R, Nerurkar PV, Phillips N, Ray RB. Bitter Melon Extract Impairs Prostate Cancer Cell-Cycle Progression and Delays Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia in TRAMP Model. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2011 Dec; 4(12):2122-30.
 

Current Graduate Students (Chair)

  • John Staton Laws III (MS Nutritional Sciences)

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Degree program faculty

Cheryl Albright, PhD, MPH
Mapuana Antonio, DrPH
Jinan Banna, PhD, RD, CDN
Marla J. Berry, PhD
Carol J. Boushey, PhD, MPH, RD
Monica K. Esquivel, PhD, RDN, CSSD
Marie Kainoa Fialkowski Revilla, PhD, RD, LDN
Adrian Franke, PhD
Yanghua He, PhD
Ronald Hetzler, PhD
Kacie Ho, PhD
Rajesh Jha, PhD
Rachel Johnson, PhD, MPH, RD
Soojin Jun, PhD
Yong Soo Kim, PhD, MS
Iris Fumiko Kimura, PhD, AT.Ret, PT
Janet Latner, PhD
Loic Le Marchand, MD, PhD
Rachael Leon Guerrero, PhD, RDN, LD
Qing X. Li, PhD
Yong Li, PhD
Unhee Lim, PhD, MS
Gertraud Maskarinec, MD PhD
Birendra Mishra, PhD, MS, DVM
Pratibha Nerurkar, PhD
Rachel Novotny, PhD, RDN, LD
Jenee Odani, DVM
May Okihiro, MD
Andre P Seale, PhD
John A Shepherd, PhD
Mark Thorne, PhD
Lynne Wilkens, DrPH, MS
Jinzeng Yang, PhD
Halina M Zaleski, PhD

Contact

Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
1955 East-West Road,
Ag Sci 216
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822
Phone: (808) 956-7095
Fax: (808) 956-4024
Email: nutrphd@hawaii.edu

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Address: 2540 Maile Way Spalding 354 Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: (808) 956-8544 Email: gradss@hawaii.edu Website: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/graduate/

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