PANKAJ KUMAR

Employment

• Strand Life Sciences (India) Senior Scientist
  2022 - Present
• Université Libre de Bruxelles Postdoctoral Researcher
  2021 - 2022
• Karolinska Institutet Postdoctoral Researcher
  2017 - 2021
• Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Postdoctoral Researcher
  2015 - 2016
• CSIR Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology Project Assistant/Sr. Research Fellow
  2008 - 2010

Education

• CSIR Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
  2011 - 2015

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (23)

• Fine-tuning of gene expression through the Mettl3-Mettl14-Dnmt1 axis controls ESC differentiation
  Cell 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.009
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• Mindin regulates fibroblast subpopulations through distinct Src family kinases during fibrogenesis
  JCI Insight 2025 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.173071
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• Mindin (SPON2) Is Essential for Cutaneous Fibrogenesis in a Mouse Model of Systemic Sclerosis.
  The Journal of investigative dermatology 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2022.10.011
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• The neuropeptide Substance P facilitates the transition from an inflammatory to proliferation phase-associated responses in dermal fibroblasts.
  Experimental dermatology 2022 DOI: 10.1111/exd.14573
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• Evaluating totipotency using criteria of increasing stringency
  Nature Cell Biology 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41556-020-00609-2
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• Preclinical safety studies of human embryonic stem cell‐derived retinal pigment epithelial cells for the treatment of age‐related macular degeneration
  STEM CELLS Translational Medicine 2020 DOI: 10.1002/sctm.19-0396
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• Identification of cell surface markers and establishment of monolayer differentiation to retinal pigment epithelial cells
  Nature Communications 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15326-5
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• Phosphoproteomics identifies a bimodal EPHA2 receptor switch that promotes embryonic stem cell differentiation
  Nature Communications 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15173-4
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• Generation of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells Derived from Human Embryonic Stem Cells Lacking Human Leukocyte Antigen Class I and II.
  Stem cell reports 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.02.006
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• DNA methylome profiling of granulosa cells reveals altered methylation in genes regulating vital ovarian functions in polycystic ovary syndrome.
  Clinical epigenetics 2019 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-019-0657-6
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