Ravina Pandita

  • Current Student, 2021 Cohort
  • Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences Students, School of Medicine

Biography

Research Interests: studying immune evasion caused in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), and particularly how T-cells are dysregulated in this lethal disease.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.S., 2019, University of Maryland

Honors and awards

  • Gold Medalist for highest academic standing, Honors Degree, D.C.R.U.S.T, Murthal, India (2017)
  • Vice Chair of Communications- International Employee Resource Group (IERG) at OHSU (2022)

Publications

Selected publications

  • Khazan, N., Kim, K. K., Hansen, J. N., Singh, N. A., Moore, T., Snyder, C., Pandita, R., Strawderman, M., Fujihara, M., Takamura, Y., Jian, Y., Battaglia, N., Yano, N., Teramoto, Y., Arnold, L. A., Hopson, R., Kishor, K., Nayak, S., Ojha, D., Sharon, A., … Moore, R. G. (2022). Identification of a Vitamin-D Receptor Antagonist, MeTC7, which Inhibits the Growth of Xenograft and Transgenic Tumors 
  • Rowswell-Turner, R. B., Singh, R. K., Urh, A., Yano, N., Kim, K. K., Khazan, N., Pandita, R., Sivagnanalingam, U., Hovanesian, V., James, N. E., Ribeiro, J. R., Kadambi, S., Linehan, D. C., & Moore, R. G. (2021). HE4 Overexpression by Ovarian Cancer Promotes a Suppressive Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Enhanced Tumor and Macrophage PD-L1 Expression. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 206(10), 2478–2488. 
  • Anvari, A., Modiri, A., Pandita, R., Mahmood, J., & Sawant, A. (2020). Online dose delivery verification in small animal image-guided radiotherapy. Medical physics, 47(4), 1871–1879.  https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.14070
  • Mahmood, J., Pandita, R., Zhang, A., Kamlapurkar, S., Saeed, A., Chen, M., Staats, P. N., Shukla, H. D., Anvari, A., Sawant, A., & Vujaskovic, Z. (2020). RhoA/ROCK pathway inhibitor ameliorates erectile dysfunction induced by radiation therapy in rats. Radiotherapy and oncology: journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 150, 174–180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2020.06.021

Publications