Associate Professor in Surgery
Third Year Mentor - Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Environmental Physiology Study Program (ASEP)
Third Year Mentor - Biomedical Engineering and Surgery Study Program (BES)
Third Year Mentor - Molmed Oncological Sciences
Campus mail:
477 Med.Sci.Res.Bldg. (Msrb1), 2606 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
Phone:
(919) 668-0410
Dr. Devi’s research interests include functional genomics, anti-cancer drug discovery and development, mechanisms of cancer cell signaling, tumor immunity and applications thereof for overcoming therapeutic resistance in cancer.
The lab has established prostate, inflammatory breast cancer and ovarian cellular and tumor models.
Education and Training
- University of Nebraska, College of Medicine, Ph.D. 1998
Selected Grants and Awards
- Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant
- Duke University Program in Environmental Health
- Viral Oncology Training Grant
- Preventing Inflammatory Breast Cancer Metastases by Interrupting Cellular Stress Signaling in Lymphatic Emboli and Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters
- Overcome Stress Signaling to Prevent Inflammatory Breast Cancer Metastasis
- Developing a HER3 Vaccine to Prevent Resistance to Endocrine Therapy
- Duke Resident Physician-Scientist Program- NHLBI
- Medical Scientist Training Program
- Translational Research in Surgical Oncology
- Characterization of Tumor Immunobiological Factors that Promote Lymphovascular Invasion and Dissemination in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer
- Organization and Function of Cellular Structure
- Pharmacological Sciences Training Program
- Duke University Program in Environmental Health
- Novel Immune Modulating Cellular Vaccine for Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy
- GLI1 Inhibition to Enhance Chemo- and Targeted-Therapies in Inflammatory Breast Cancer
- Resveratrol, Carbohydrate Restriction and Prostate Cancer Progression
- Role of XIAP in Therapeutic Resistance in Inflammatory Breast Cancer