University of Pittsburgh

Reety Arora, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow





	
	


			

		Dr. Reety Arora	
		

		

	
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Education
	
	

	
PhD in Integrative Molecular Biology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, 2012 
BEng in Biotechnology with honors, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, 2007
        

              
   
  
 
 


  
 
 
 
 
 	
Program
	
	

	Program in Integrative Molecular Biology (PIMB)	
	


 
 
 	
Mentor
	
	

	
Yuan Chang, MD
Patrick S. Moore, MD, MPH
        

                
        
        
        
        	
Dissertation
	
	

	Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Positive Merkel Cell Carcinoma - From Diagnosis To Therapy	
	


        
        
        
        
 
 
   
   
















        













	
Areas of Interest
	
	

	Tumor Virology, Cancer Biology, Immunology, Translational Science	
	






	
Why I Chose Pitt
	
	

	
I choose the University of Pittsburgh because of the quality of education offered here and some of the leading faculty doing good science.
Following her graduation from the University of Pittsburgh, Reety returned to India as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lab of Professor Jyotsna Dhawan at inStem, NCBS, located in Bangalore.
	
	




	
Publications
	
	

	
Lack of evidence for direct involvement of Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).  Blood. 115: 4973-4974. |  View Abstract
Shuda, M; Arora, R; Kwun, H. J; Feng, H; Sarid, R; Fernandez-Figueras, M. T; Tolstov, Y; Gjoerup, O; Mansukhani, M. M; Swerdlow, S. H; Chaudhary, P. M; Kirkwood, J. M; Nalesnik, M. A; Kant, J. A; Weiss, L. M; Moore, P. S. and Chang, Y. (2009) Human Merkel cell polyomavirus infection I. MCV T antigen expression in Merkel cell carcinoma, lymphoid tissues and lymphoid tumors. Int. J Cancer. 125: 1243-1249. |  View Abstract
Merkel cell polyomavirus expression in merkel cell carcinomas and its absence in combined tumors and pulmonary neuroendocrine carcinomas. Am. J Surg. Pathol. 33: 1378-1385. |  View Abstract