Ajay Nair

Employment

• Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University Associate Professor
  2026 - Present
• Consultant - Systems Biology
  2025 - 2026
• Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology Visiting Scientist
  2025 - 2026
• Harvard University Research Fellow
  2023 - 2025
• Columbia University Associate Research Scientist
  2021 - 2023
• Columbia University Postdoctoral Research Scientist
  2018 - 2021

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi M Tech
  2008 - 2010
• IITB-Monash Research Academy PhD
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay PhD
• Monash University PhD

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (33)

• FXR-YAP signalling maintains biliary epithelial cell identity and preserves liver homeostasis
  NATURE METABOLISM 2026 DOI: 10.1038/S42255-026-01521-Z
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• Midkine (MDK) as a central regulator of the tumor microenvironment: From developmental cytokine to therapeutic target
  CANCER LETTERS 2026 DOI: 10.1016/J.CANLET.2026.218258
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• Single-cell transcriptomics reveals FXR1 as an actionable target for siRNA therapy in ovarian cancer
  Nature Communications 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71468-y
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• Author Correction: Collagenolysis-dependent DDR1 signalling dictates pancreatic cancer outcome (Nature, (2022), 610, 7931, (366-372), 10.1038/s41586-022-05169-z)
  Nature 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09285-4
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• Single-Cell RNA-sequencing Revolutionizes Our Understanding of Cancer Biology
  Informatics Studies 2023
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• scRegacti Identifes Core Regulators of Liver Fibrosis, a Pre-tumor Microenvironment for Liver Cancer
  22nd Annual New England Science Symposium 2023
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• A Therapeutically Targetable TAZ-TEAD2 Pathway Drives the Growth of Hepatocellular Carcinoma via ANLN and KIF23.
  Gastroenterology 2023 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2023.02.043
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• Publisher Correction: Collagenolysis-dependent DDR1 signalling dictates pancreatic cancer outcome (Nature, (2022), 610, 7931, (366-372), 10.1038/s41586-022-05169-z)
  Nature 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05920-0
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• Collagenolysis-dependent DDR1 signalling dictates pancreatic cancer outcome
  Nature 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05169-z
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• The purinergic P2Y14 receptor links hepatocyte death to hepatic stellate cell activation and fibrogenesis in the liver
  Science Translational Medicine 2022 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abe5795
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