Associate Professor

Selected Publications

• 1. McMinn J, Wei M, Sadovsky Y, Thaker HM, Tycko B. (2006). Imprinting of PEG1/MEST isoform 2 in human placenta. Placenta, 27(2-3), 119-26.
• 2. Qiu W, Schonleben F, Thaker HM, Goggins M, Su GH. (2006). A novel mutation of STK11/LKB1 gene leads to the loss of cell growth inhibition in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Oncogene, 25(20), 2937-42.
• 3. McMinn J, Wei M, Schupf N, Cusmai J, Johnson EB, Smith AC, Weksberg R, Thaker HM, Tycko B. (2006). Unbalanced placental expression of imprinted genes in human intrauterine growth restriction. Placenta, 27(6-7), 540-9.
• 4. Lee YM, Cleary-Goldman J, Thaker HM, Simpson LL. (2006). Antenatal sonographic prediction of twin chorionicity. Am J Obstet Gynecol, 195(3), 863-7.
• 5. Suciu-Foca N, Feirt N, Zhang QY, Vlad G, Liu Z, Lin H, Chang CC, Ho EK, Colovai AI, Kaufman H, D'Agati VD, Thaker HM, Remotti H, Galluzzo S, Cinti P, Rabitti C, Allendorf J, Chabot J, Caricato M, Coppola R, Berloco P, Cortesini R. (2007). Soluble Ig-like transcript 3 inhibits tumor allograft rejection in humanized SCID mice and T cell responses in cancer patients. J Immunol, 178(11), 7432-41.
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Professional Education

• 1979 - 1981 Parle College now PTVA's Sathaye College Mumbai (Bombay)
• 1981 - 1987 MBBS University of Bombay, Topiwala N.M.College (Medicine)
• 1986 - 1987 Intern B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital Mumbai (Bombay)
• 1987 - 1993 PhD Yale University (Biology) New Haven, CT
• 1993 - 1996 Research Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Inst. at Stanford Univ.
• 1996 - 2000 Resident, New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University
• 1999 - 2000 Chief Resident New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Univ.
• 2000 Baylor College of Medicine (Pathology) Houston, TX