Arul M. Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Urology
Director of the Pathology Microarray Laboratory


Campus Address: 
M4237 MSI 0602
1301 Catherine Rd
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0602

Phone: 734/936-1887
Fax: 734-763-6476
arul@umich.edu

 
 

Clinical Interests

Clinical Genomics, Cancer Profiling

Research Interests

Functional Genomics, Prostate and Breast Cancer, Apoptosis Signaling, Inflammation, Bioinformatics

Brief Biography

Dr. Chinnaiyan received his M.D./Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan in 1999. He did his graduate work under Dr. Vishva Dixit where he identified and cloned several important mediators of the cell death (apoptosis) pathway including FADD, FLICE (caspase-8) and DR-3 (Death Receptor-3). Furthermore, he has recently completed his core medical training in Clinical Pathology.
Since establishing his own laboratory, Dr. Chinnaiyan has been using high-throughput genomic and proteomic technologies to study human disease-from inflammation to cancer. He has established the DNA Microarray Laboratory for the Department of Pathology and has amassed a large database of gene expression profiles of prostate cancer, as well as systemic inflammation in rat models. For more information please refer to the Lab's website at http://www.pathology.med.umich.edu/chinnaiyan/

Recent Publications

Dhanasekaran, S.M., Barrette, T.R., Ghosh, G., Shah, R., Varambally, S., Kurachi, K., Pienta, K.J., Rubin, M.A., Chinnaiyan, A.M. (2001) Delineation of Prognostic Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer, Nature, In Press.

Chinnaiyan, A. M., Huber-Lang, M., Kumar, C., Barrette, T.R., Shankar, S. Sarma, V.J., Ward, P.A. (2001). Molecular Signatures of Sepsis: Multiorgan Gene Expression Profiles of Systemic Inflammation. American Journal of Pathology, In Press.

Sreekumar, A., Nyati, M.K., Varambally, S., Barrette, T.R., Ghosh, D., Lawrence, T.S., Chinnaiyan, A.M. (2001). Profiling of Cancer Cells Using Protein Microarrays: Discovery of Novel Radiation-Regulated Proteins, Cancer Research, In Press.

Chinnaiyan, A.M., Prasad, U., Shankar, S., Hamstra, D.A., Shanaiah, M., Chenevert,T.L., Ross, B.D, and Rehemtulla, A. (2000). Combined effect of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand and ionizing radiation in breast cancer therapy. PNAS 97, 1754-9.

Chinnaiyan, A.M. (1999). The Apoptosome: Heart and Soul of the Cell Death Machine. Neoplasia 1, 5-15.
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