Padma P. Tadi Uppala
Loma Linda University, USA
Biography
Padma P. Tadi Uppala, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Environmental Toxicology in the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University, and the Program Director for Inland Empire Breast Cancer Research and Outreach Center, USA. Uppala earned her Ph.D. in Biology with a primary focus on environmental carcinogenesis from Loma Linda University in 1991 and obtained postdoctoral training in Environmental Toxicology at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She earned her MSc. in Parasitology from Kakatiya University, Warangal, India and B.Ed. from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. She has authored several scientific publications in the area of pesticides and biomarkers for breast cancer. teaching Medical Biochemistry to D.O. students. She is interested in studying the effect of steroid hormones on cancer using mouse and human melanoma cell lines as model systems.
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