Sharad Purohit

Co-Director

Sharad Purohit

Co-Director

Associate 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

  • (706) 721-2829
  • (706) 721-3482
  • CA II 4095

Education

  • Ph.D., Science, Technology and Society Devi Ahilya University, 2000

  • MS, Biochemistry Nagpur Univ, 1994

  • BS, Biochemistry Nagpur Univ, 1992

Awards & Honors

  • Career Development Award 2014

  • Faculty Transition Award 2010

  • Madison’s Who’s Who 2008

  • Advanced Post-doctoral Fellowship JDRF, 2006

  • Post-doctoral Fellowship JDRF, 2004

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • CAHS 6503

    Research Process
  • FDNS 7210

    Advanced Nutrition - Micro
  • CAHS 6501

    Evidence-Based Practice
  • GNMD 8060

    Genomic Medicine Seminar
  • CAHS 7523

    Research Project
  • GNMD 8051

    Translational Genom/Proteomic
  • FDNS 7200

    Advanced Nutrition-Macro
  • CLSC 4940

    Clinical Molecular Methods
  • CLSC 7940

    Clinical Molecular Methods
  • GNMD 8050

    Compu Methods in Geno and Gene
  • GNMD 8052

    Func Geno & Prote Using Anml M
  • CAHS 3110

    Human Physiology
  • GNMD 9300

    Research in Genomic Medicine

Teaching Interests

Physiology, Biochemistry, Elementary statistics, Statistical programming in R

Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

  • Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers in Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma., 2022
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Use of a glycomics array to establish the anti-carbohydrate antibody repertoire in type 1 diabetes., 2022
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Type 1 Diabetes: Current Advances in High-Throughput Technologies and Computational Biology for Biomarker Studies, 2022
    Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
  • Serum IL-1ra Is Associated with but Has No Genetic Link to Type 1 Diabetes, 2022
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Development of a Single Molecule Counting Assay to Differentiate Chromophobe Renal Cancer and Oncocytoma in Clinics, 2022
    Journal Article, Academic Journal

Research Interests

Biomarkers for classification and characterization of patient populations for diagnostic and prognostic purposes.

College Service

  • Interview Task force for admissions to MCG 2015 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

Professional Service

  • Archives of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2013 - Present

    Role: Editor