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Title

Associate Professor/Haarberg Chair in Cancer Research

Office Building

Avera Health and Science Center

Office

267

Mailing Address

Avera Health & Science 267
Pharmaceutical Sciences-Box 2202C
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

• Bachelors in pharmacy | Hamdard University, New Delhi, India | 1995
• Masters in pharmaceutics | University of Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chandigarh, Panjab University, India | 1997
• Ph.D in pharmaceutics | Talwar Research Foundation New Delhi, India | 2004
  • Degree awarded by: Hamdard University, India

Academic Interests

• Cancer prevention
• Intervention research

Committees and Professional Memberships

• 2005-present: associate member of American Association of Cancer Research (AACR)
• 2014-October 2018: associate member, University of Colorado Cancer Center
• November 2018-present: adjoint research faculty, School of Pharmacy, UC Denver-AMC Aurora, Colorado
• January 2019-present: editorial board member: Associate Editor-Molecular Carcinogenesis (Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)

Patents

1. Talwar GP, Gupta JC, Raina Komal. Recombinant anti-LHRH vaccines for control of sex hormones dependant pathologies in humans and for control of estrus in female mammals and improve meat quality in male animals. WTO Product Patent, 2003, Application No. 768/DEL/2003.
2. Talwar GP, Gupta JC, Raina Komal. A method of reducing levels of sex steroid hormones in mammals by using recombinant anti-LHRH vaccines. Indian Process patent, 2003. Application No.767/DEL/2003.

Work Experience

• October 1997-July 1999: research associate, R&D, Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, India
• November 1999-April 2005: senior research associate, The Talwar Research Foundation, New Delhi, India
• May 2005-October 2008: visiting research associate, School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Denver, Denver
• November 2008-April 10: research associate, School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Denver (AMC), Aurora, Colorado
• November 2010- June 2011: research associate, School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Denver (AMC), Aurora, Colorado
• July 2011-December 2013: research instructor, School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Denver (AMC), Aurora, Colorado
• January 2014-October 2018: assistant professor-research, University of Colorado Denver (AMC), Aurora, Colorado
• October 2018-present: associate professor/ Haarberg Chair in Cancer Research, College of Pharmacy, South Dakota State University
• November 2018-present: adjoint research faculty, School of Pharmacy, UC Denver-AMC Aurora, Colorado

Areas of Research

• Cancer prevention/intervention research-targeting epithelial cancers (prostate, colon, lung and pancreas)