Dr. Vivek Tanavde

Affiliation : Associate Professor, Division of Biological & Life Sciences, Ahmedabad University, India

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Vivek Tanavde obtained his Ph.D from the Cancer Research Institute, Mumbai (1999) in Applied Biology.From 1999 to 2002, he was a post doctoral fellow at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Centre, Johns Hopkins University working on expansion of hematopoietic stem cells. He returned to India in 2002 and was head of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Lab at Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai. His laboratory also provided diagnostic services using flow cytometry, mainly in CD4/CD8 &single platform CD34 enumeration. From 2006-2016 he wasa Principal Investigatorat Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore.Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Division of Biological & Life Sciences, Ahmedabad University. Most of his work has focused on developing protocols for expansion and targeted differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells. His current research focuses on the use of bioinformatics and systems biology to understand mesenchymal stem cell biology and differentiation.

Relevant Literature:

1. Dominici M, Le Blanc K, Mueller I, Slaper-Cortenbach I, Marini F, Krause D, Deans R, Keating A, Prockop D, Horwitz E. Minimal criteria for defining multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells. The International Society for Cellular Therapy position statement. Cytotherapy 2006;8(4):315-7.

2. KodeJ, Tanavde V. Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Their clinical applications. In: Applications of Flow Cytometry in ‘Stem Cell Research and Tissue Regeneration’, Eds. Awtar Krishan, H Krishnamurthy and Satish Totey, Wiley- Blackwell Publications. 2010.