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          Vijender Chaitankar, Ph.D.





Vijender Chaitankar, Ph.D.


Research Fellow
    Biodata Mining and Discovery Section Photo of Vijender Chaitankar 
            Contact Information

                                
                                                9000 Rockville Pike
                  
            10 Center Drive
      
                  
            Building 10, Room 13C120
      
                                   Bethesda MD 20892
                
                                                vijender.chaitankar@nih.gov 
                Summary
          Vijender Chaitankar, Ph.D., received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in computer science. His doctoral dissertation focused on developing novel algorithms and mathematical tools to reconstruct gene regulatory networks from high throughput gene expression data. After completing his doctoral degree at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Chaitankar held faculty positions at public and private universities.

He joined the National Eye Institute in May 2014 as a Research Fellow, where he used his computational biology skills to uncover regulatory mechanisms that underlie the development and degenerative disease progression of photoreceptor cells in the retina. In November 2017, he joined the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Core Laboratory at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, where he supported several investigators with bioinformatics requirements. In March 2020, Dr. Chaitankar joined the NIAMS in the Lymphocyte Cell Biology Section led by Dr. John O’Shea. His primary job duties are to process and interpret disparate sequencing datasets to decode the molecular basis that underlies the differentiation of CD4+ T cells and their role in host defense and the pathogenesis of immune-mediated diseases. 

            Scientific Publications
              Olfactomedin 4 mediation of prostate stem/progenitor-like cell proliferation and differentiation via MYC.

    Li H, Chaitankar V, Zhu J, Chin K, Liu W, Pirooznia M, Rodgers GP
        

                    Sci Rep.
        
                    2020 Dec 14;
        
                    10(1).
        
                    doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-78774-5
                            PMID: 33318499
  lncRNAKB, a knowledgebase of tissue-specific functional annotation and trait association of long noncoding RNA.

    Seifuddin F, Singh K, Suresh A, Judy JT, Chen YC, Chaitankar V, Tunc I, Ruan X, Li P, Chen Y, Cao H, Lee RS, Goes FS, Zandi PP, Jafri MS, Pirooznia M
        

                    Sci Data.
        
                    2020 Oct 5;
        
                    7(1).
        
                    doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-00659-z
                            PMID: 33020484
  Molecular Anatomy of the Developing Human Retina.

    Hoshino A, Ratnapriya R, Brooks MJ, Chaitankar V, Wilken MS, Zhang C, Starostik MR, Gieser L, La Torre A, Nishio M, Bates O, Walton A, Bermingham-McDonogh O, Glass IA, Wong ROL, Swaroop A, Reh TA
        

                    Dev Cell.
        
                    2017 Dec 18;
        
                    43(6).
        
                    doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.10.029
                            PMID: 29233477
  Nrl knockdown by AAV-delivered CRISPR/Cas9 prevents retinal degeneration in mice.

    Yu W, Mookherjee S, Chaitankar V, Hiriyanna S, Kim JW, Brooks M, Ataeijannati Y, Sun X, Dong L, Li T, Swaroop A, Wu Z
        

                    Nat Commun.
        
                    2017 Mar 14;
        
                    8().
        
                    doi: 10.1038/ncomms14716
                            PMID: 28291770
  Next generation sequencing technology and genomewide data analysis: Perspectives for retinal research.

    Chaitankar V, Karakülah G, Ratnapriya R, Giuste FO, Brooks MJ, Swaroop A
        

                    Prog Retin Eye Res.
        
                    2016 Nov;
        
                    55().
        
                    doi: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2016.06.001
                            PMID: 27297499 
          Education
              
            **Virginia Commonwealth University**
Ph.D., Computer Science (2012)

**The University of Southern Mississippi**
M.S., Computer Science (2006)

**Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University**
B.E., Computer Science (2004)             
                        Experience
              
            **Research Fellow**
NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD (2019-Present)

**Research Fellow**
NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD (2017-2019)

**Research Fellow**
NEI, NIH, Bethesda, MD (2014-2017)


Last Updated: December 2022


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