
Anindya Bagchi's Research Focus
My lab studies the genetic mutations that drive cancer. I am a geneticist by training, and I am passionate about finding the hidden drivers of cancer. As a research community, we have made tremendous progress in the last few decades in understanding the nature of the beast, but now is the time to translate those knowledge to actionable interventions. A riveting idea that has excited us for sometime is to illuminate the genetic mutations which act as life line to many cancers. This would expose their Achilles heel that we can exploit in near future to develop new forms of treatment. That is what my lab’s work is focused on. We have identified and characterized several key mutations that we have shown as proof of concept can be targeted in as much as 30% of all cancers. The focus of the lab is now to carry out experiments that will allow us to develop this work beyond the proof of concept, ideally to successful clinical trials.
Anindya Bagchi's Bio
Dr. Bagchi comes to Sanford Burnham Prebys from the University of Minnesota, where he has been since 2008, having earlier held positions as assistant professor of Cell Biology & Development (Genetic Mechanism of Cancer) and Co-Director of Mouse Genetics Laboratory at University of Minnesota. Dr. Bagchi brings his lab with him and an established research program in genetic mechanisms of cancer. He completed his Ph.D. degree at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. He has been an American Cancer Society Research Scholar since 2014 and Masonic Scholar since 2010.

Publications
PVT1 dependence in cancer with MYC copy-number increase.
Tseng YY, Moriarity BS, Gong W, Akiyama R, Tiwari A, Kawakami H, Ronning P, Reuland B, Guenther K, Beadnell TC, Essig J, Otto GM, O'Sullivan MG, Largaespada DA, Schwertfeger KL, Marahrens Y, Kawakami Y, Bagchi A
Nature 2014 Aug 7 ;512(7512):82-6
CHD5 is a tumor suppressor at human 1p36.
Bagchi A, Papazoglu C, Wu Y, Capurso D, Brodt M, Francis D, Bredel M, Vogel H, Mills AA
Cell 2007 Feb 9 ;128(3):459-75
Loss of HIF1A From Pancreatic Cancer Cells Increases Expression of PPP1R1B and Degradation of p53 to Promote Invasion and Metastasis.
Tiwari A, Tashiro K, Dixit A, Soni A, Vogel K, Hall B, Shafqat I, Slaughter J, Param N, Le A, Saunders E, Paithane U, Garcia G, Campos AR, Zettervall J, Carlson M, Starr TK, Marahrens Y, Deshpande AJ, Commisso C, Provenzano PP, Bagchi A
Gastroenterology 2020 Nov ;159(5):1882-1897.e5
Biomedical applications of nanomaterials in the advancement of nucleic acid therapy: Mechanistic challenges, delivery strategies, and therapeutic applications.
Yadav K, Sahu KK, Sucheta, Gnanakani SPE, Sure P, Vijayalakshmi R, Sundar VD, Sharma V, Antil R, Jha M, Minz S, Bagchi A, Pradhan M
Int J Biol Macromol 2023 Apr 26 ;241:124582
Preclinical study models of psoriasis: State-of-the-art techniques for testing pharmaceutical products in animal and nonanimal models.
Yadav K, Singh D, Singh MR, Minz S, Princely Ebenezer Gnanakani S, Sucheta, Yadav R, Vora L, Sahu KK, Bagchi A, Singh Chauhan N, Pradhan M
Int Immunopharmacol 2023 Apr ;117:109945
ecDNA hubs drive cooperative intermolecular oncogene expression.
Hung KL, Yost KE, Xie L, Shi Q, Helmsauer K, Luebeck J, Schöpflin R, Lange JT, Chamorro González R, Weiser NE, Chen C, Valieva ME, Wong IT, Wu S, Dehkordi SR, Duffy CV, Kraft K, Tang J, Belk JA, Rose JC, Corces MR, Granja JM, Li R, Rajkumar U, Friedlein J, Bagchi A, Satpathy AT, Tjian R, Mundlos S, Bafna V, Henssen AG, Mischel PS, Liu Z, Chang HY
Nature 2021 Dec ;600(7890):731-736
Correction to: Polymorphisms within the Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase gene (TERT) in four breeds of dogs selected for difference in lifespan and cancer susceptibility.
McAloney CA, Silverstein KAT, Modiano JF, Bagchi A
BMC Vet Res 2021 Sep 6 ;17(1):297
A JAK/STAT-mediated inflammatory signaling cascade drives oncogenesis in AF10-rearranged AML.
Chen BR, Deshpande A, Barbosa K, Kleppe M, Lei X, Yeddula N, Vela PS, Campos AR, Wechsler-Reya RJ, Bagchi A, Meshinchi S, Eaves C, Jeremias I, Haferlach T, Frank DA, Ronai Z, Chanda S, Armstrong SA, Adams PD, Levine RL, Deshpande AJ
Blood 2021 Jun 17 ;137(24):3403-3415
The S-phase-induced lncRNA SUNO1 promotes cell proliferation by controlling YAP1/Hippo signaling pathway.
Hao Q, Zong X, Sun Q, Lin YC, Song YJ, Hashemikhabir S, Hsu RY, Kamran M, Chaudhary R, Tripathi V, Singh DK, Chakraborty A, Li XL, Kim YJ, Orjalo AV, Polycarpou-Schwarz M, Moriarity BS, Jenkins LM, Johansson HE, Zhu YJ, Diederichs S, Bagchi A, Kim TH, Janga SC, Lal A, Prasanth SG, Prasanth KV
Elife 2020 Oct 27 ;9