Sharad Purohit
Co-Director
Assistant Professor
Academic Appointment(s)
College of Allied Health Sciences
Department of Undergraduate Health Professions: Medical Laboratory, Imaging and Radiologic Sciences
Medical College of Georgia
Department of Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine
Other Duties
- (706) 721-3403
- (706) 721-3482
- CA II 4095
Education
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Ph.D., Science, Technology and Societ
Devi Ahilya University, 2000
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MS, Biochemistry
Nagpur Univ, 1994
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BS, Biochemistry
Nagpur Univ, 1992
Awards & Honors
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Career Development Award
2014
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Faculty Transition Award
2010
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Madison’s Who’s Who
2008
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Advanced Post-doctoral Fellowship
JDRF, 2006
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Post-doctoral Fellowship
JDRF, 2004
Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year
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FDNS 7200
Advanced Nutrition-Macro
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MLIR 3510
Applied Research & Statistics
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CAHS 3110
Human Physiology
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CAHS 6503
Research Process
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FDNS 7210
Advanced Nutrition - Micro
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GNMD 8060
Genomic Medicine Seminar
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GNMD 8051
Translational Genom/Proteomic
Teaching Interests
Physiology, Biochemistry, Elementary statistics, Statistical programming in R
Scholarship
Selected Recent Publications
- Proteins of TNF-α and IL6 Pathways Are Elevated in Serum of Type-1 Diabetes Patients with Microalbuminuria., 2018
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Multiplex glycan bead array for high throughput and high content analyses of glycan binding proteins., 2018
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Sphingosine Toxicity in EAE and MS: Evidence for Ceramide Generation via Serine-Palmitoyltransferase Activation., 2017
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- IGF-Binding Proteins in Type-1 Diabetes Are More Severely Altered in the Presence of Complications., 2016
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Large scale discovery and validation studies demonstrate significant reductions in circulating levels of IL8, IL-1Ra, MCP-1 and MIP-1β in type-1 diabetes, 2015
Research Interests
Biomarkers for classification and characterization of patient populations for diagnostic and prognostic purposes.
College Service
Professional Service
