Deoraj, Alok

Alok Deoraj
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Senior Instructor, Environmental Health Sciences , Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work

Contact Info

adeoraj@fiu.edu

305-348-7793

overview

Dr. Alok Deoraj has extensive teaching, research and management experience in academic and industry settings. His current primary focus is on teaching undergraduate, graduate and PhD students. Dr. Deoraj conducts research in the area of environmental toxicology to investigate the influence of complex environmental exposures on the neuroendocrine regulation (e.g., via Kisseptin, GABA and other neuropeptides) of Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone-II (GnRH-II) release and its downstream signaling on the timing of the onset of the puberty/adolescence. He is interested in finding whether timing of puberty is a risk factor for reproductive cancer and/or neurodegenerative diseases. His research may lead to identify exposome(s), environmental and epigenetic biomarkers which can be applied to conduct environmental health risk assessment for reproductive aging/cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.

selected publications

Article
- 2017
  
  Environmental estrogen-like endocrine disrupting chemicals and breast cancer. MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY. 457:89-102.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2016.10.003 PMID: 27717745 Web of Science: 000413128000011
- 2016
  
  Assessing plant growth, water quality and economic effects from application of a plant-based aquafeed in a recirculating aquaponic system. AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL. 24:415-427.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10499-015-9934-3 Web of Science: 000372553000030
- 2015
  
  Integrated Bioinformatics, Environmental Epidemiologic and Genomic Approaches to Identify Environmental and Molecular Links between Endometriosis and Breast Cancer. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. 16:25285-25322.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/ijms161025285 PMID: 26512648 Web of Science: 000364232100114
- 2015
  
  Redox signalling to nuclear regulatory proteins by reactive oxygen species contributes to oestrogen-induced growth of breast cancer cells. BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 112:1687-1702.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2014.586 PMID: 25965299 Web of Science: 000354376500009
- 2010
  
  Approaches to Identify Environmental and Epigenomic Components or Covariates of Cancer and Disease Susceptibility. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, GENES, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CANCERS. 197-219.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6752-7_8 Web of Science: 000282535900008
Meeting Abstract
- 2018
  
  Exosomal ID3 is pro-metastatic through guiding NRF1-induced breast cancer stem cells across the blood-brain-barrier. CANCER RESEARCH.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2018-1128 Web of Science: 000468818903101
- 2015
  
  Phosphodeficient NRF1 mutant suppresses the susceptibility of the breast epithelial cells to develop tumors when exposed to estrogen - a major breast cancer risk factor. CANCER RESEARCH.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.AM2015-4559 Web of Science: 000371597104187
Review
- 2011
  
  Estrogen-induced reactive oxygen species-mediated signalings contribute to breast cancer. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-REVIEWS ON CANCER. 115-133.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2010.10.005 PMID: 21036202 Web of Science: 000287124400009

research interests

Environmental Toxicology

teaching activities

PHC6311-RVC: Environmental Health Risk Assessment Spring Term 2019
PHC6315-RVC: Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences Spring Term 2019
PHC6315-RXD: Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences Fall Term 2019
PHC6315-RXD: Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences Spring Term 2019
PHC6355-U01: Environmental Health and Safety Fall Term 2019
PHC6442-RVC: Global Environmental Public Health Fall Term 2019
PHC6914-U06: Current Topics in Environmental Health Sciences Research Lab Fall Term 2019
PHC6917-U02: Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Pre Doctoral Research Fall Term 2019

full name

Alok Deoraj

ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3725-3971 (confirmed)

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publication subject areas

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Biophysics
Cell Biology
Chemistry
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Fisheries
Oncology

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