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Sunad Rangarajan

TitleAssistant Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus
DepartmentSOM-MED
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    2007Elio Lugaresi Award for Sleep Research, World Association of Sleep Medicine
    2016Walter B. Frommeyer Fellowship in Investigative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Medicine
    2017IMPACT Award, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
    2018Pulmonary Innovation Award, CU Anschutz Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine
    2019Giles F. Filley Memorial Award for Excellence in Respiratory Physiology and Medicine, American Physiological Society
    2019ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award, American Society for Clinical Investigation

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    K08HL135399     (RANGARAJAN, SUNAD)Mar 1, 2017 - Feb 28, 2022
    NIH
    Mitochondrial UCP2 in Age-Related Lung Fibrosis
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Rangarajan S. ANT1 and the SASP: Beyond the Bioenergetic Void. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2023 11; 69(5):495-496. PMID: 37579125.
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    2. Rangarajan S, Locy ML, Chanda D, Kurundkar A, Kurundkar D, Larson-Casey JL, Londono P, Bagchi RA, Deskin B, Elajaili H, Nozik ES, Deshane JS, Zmijewski JW, Eickelberg O, Thannickal VJ. Mitochondrial uncoupling protein-2 reprograms metabolism to induce oxidative stress and myofibroblast senescence in age-associated lung fibrosis. Aging Cell. 2022 09; 21(9):e13674. PMID: 35934931.
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    3. Rehan M, Kurundkar D, Kurundkar AR, Logsdon NJ, Smith SR, Chanda D, Bernard K, Sanders YY, Deshane JS, Dsouza KG, Rangarajan S, Zmijewski JW, Thannickal VJ. Restoration of SIRT3 gene expression by airway delivery resolves age-associated persistent lung fibrosis in mice. Nat Aging. 2021 02; 1(2):205-217. PMID: 34386777.
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    4. Locy ML, Rangarajan S, Yang S, Johnson MR, Bernard K, Kurundkar A, Bone NB, Zmijewski JW, Byun J, Pennathur S, Zhou Y, Thannickal VJ. Oxidative cross-linking of fibronectin confers protease resistance and inhibits cellular migration. Sci Signal. 2020 08 11; 13(644). PMID: 32788339.
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    5. Rangarajan S, Thannickal VJ. Remember Me? The Bone Marrow in Pulmonary Fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 10 15; 200(8):959-960. PMID: 31206314.
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    6. Rangarajan S, Bone NB, Zmijewska AA, Jiang S, Park DW, Bernard K, Locy ML, Ravi S, Deshane J, Mannon RB, Abraham E, Darley-Usmar V, Thannickal VJ, Zmijewski JW. Author Correction: Metformin reverses established lung fibrosis in a bleomycin model. Nat Med. 2018 Oct; 24(10):1627. PMID: 30104770.
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    7. Rangarajan S, Bone NB, Zmijewska AA, Jiang S, Park DW, Bernard K, Locy ML, Ravi S, Deshane J, Mannon RB, Abraham E, Darley-Usmar V, Thannickal VJ, Zmijewski JW. Metformin reverses established lung fibrosis in a bleomycin model. Nat Med. 2018 08; 24(8):1121-1127. PMID: 29967351.
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    8. Rangarajan S, Lee JS. The TAMing of the Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Myofibroblast. One Step Closer? Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018 06 01; 197(11):1377-1378. PMID: 29664671.
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    9. Rangarajan S, Bernard K, Thannickal VJ. Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Pulmonary Fibrosis. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2017 Nov; 14(Supplement_5):S383-S388. PMID: 29161077.
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    10. Sharma NS, Wille KM, Athira S, Zhi D, Hough KP, Diaz-Guzman E, Zhang K, Kumar R, Rangarajan S, Eipers P, Wang Y, Srivastava RK, Rodriguez Dager JV, Athar M, Morrow C, Hoopes CW, Chaplin DD, Thannickal VJ, Deshane JS. Distal airway microbiome is associated with immunoregulatory myeloid cell responses in lung transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2017 Jul 15. PMID: 28756121.
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    11. Surolia R, Li FJ, Wang Z, Li H, Liu G, Zhou Y, Luckhardt T, Bae S, Liu RM, Rangarajan S, de Andrade J, Thannickal VJ, Antony VB. 3D pulmospheres serve as a personalized and predictive multicellular model for assessment of antifibrotic drugs. JCI Insight. 2017 04 20; 2(8). PMID: 28422764.
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    12. Surolia R, Li FJ, Wang Z, Li H, Liu G, Zhou Y, Luckhardt T, Bae S, Liu RM, Rangarajan S, de Andrade J, Thannickal VJ, Antony VB. 3D pulmospheres serve as a personalized and predictive multicellular model for assessment of antifibrotic drugs. JCI Insight. 2017 01 26; 2(2):e91377. PMID: 28138565.
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    13. Chanda D, Kurundkar A, Rangarajan S, Locy M, Bernard K, Sharma NS, Logsdon NJ, Liu H, Crossman DK, Horowitz JC, De Langhe S, Thannickal VJ. Developmental Reprogramming in Mesenchymal Stromal Cells of Human Subjects with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Sci Rep. 2016 11 21; 6:37445. PMID: 27869174.
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    14. Rangarajan S, Locy ML, Luckhardt TR, Thannickal VJ. Targeted Therapy for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Where To Now? Drugs. 2016 Mar; 76(3):291-300. PMID: 26729185.
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    15. Kurundkar AR, Kurundkar D, Rangarajan S, Locy ML, Zhou Y, Liu RM, Zmijewski J, Thannickal VJ. The matricellular protein CCN1 enhances TGF-?1/SMAD3-dependent profibrotic signaling in fibroblasts and contributes to fibrogenic responses to lung injury. FASEB J. 2016 06; 30(6):2135-50. PMID: 26884454.
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    16. Rangarajan S, Kurundkar A, Kurundkar D, Bernard K, Sanders YY, Ding Q, Antony VB, Zhang J, Zmijewski J, Thannickal VJ. Novel Mechanisms for the Antifibrotic Action of Nintedanib. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2016 Jan; 54(1):51-9. PMID: 26072676.
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    17. Bernard K, Logsdon NJ, Ravi S, Xie N, Persons BP, Rangarajan S, Zmijewski JW, Mitra K, Liu G, Darley-Usmar VM, Thannickal VJ. Metabolic Reprogramming Is Required for Myofibroblast Contractility and Differentiation. J Biol Chem. 2015 Oct 16; 290(42):25427-38. PMID: 26318453.
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    18. Sanders YY, Cui Z, Le Saux CJ, Horowitz JC, Rangarajan S, Kurundkar A, Antony VB, Thannickal VJ. SMAD-independent down-regulation of caveolin-1 by TGF-?: effects on proliferation and survival of myofibroblasts. PLoS One. 2015; 10(2):e0116995. PMID: 25658089.
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    19. Rangarajan S, Rangarajan S, D'Souza GA. Restless legs syndrome in an Indian urban population. Sleep Med. 2007 Dec; 9(1):88-93. PMID: 17825618.
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    20. Rangarajan S, D'Souza GA. Restless legs syndrome in Indian patients having iron deficiency anemia in a tertiary care hospital. Sleep Med. 2007 Apr; 8(3):247-51. PMID: 17368978.
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