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Velavan Bakthavachalam, Ph.D.

Visiting Research Assistant Professor

Oral Biology

Contact

Address:
801 S Paulina Chicago, Illinois 60612

About

Bakthavachalam earned his PhD in Biochemistry in at the University of Madras in India, where his dissertation work focused on TGFβ-regulated autophagy in lung cancer. He then completed his postdoctoral training at UIC in autophagy mechanisms relevant to cancer and tissue regeneration.