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Contact Details

Email
sunali.mehta@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Research Fellow
Department
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine (Dunedin)
Research summary
Cancer research

Research

Current research interests include:

  • Cancer biology
  • Understanding the cell cycle and how its dysregulation leads to development of cancer
  • Understanding the role of p53 (tumour suppressor gene) and YB-1 (an oncogene) in cancer
  • Analyses of large databases to improve biological understanding of cancer
  • Bioinformatic analyses of RNA expression in cancer and other disease from next generation sequencing and microarrays
  • Identifying molecular markers that translate into clinical applications

Publications

Wang, S., Shafaei Pishabad, Z., Sarkar, D., Arun Bhandarkar, A., Sarwar, M., Jeffs, A., Reid, G., Braithwaite, A., & Mehta, S. (2026). YBX1 expression marks proliferative tumour states with context-dependent genomic instability: A pan-cancer analysis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 27(10), 4340. doi: 10.3390/ijms27104340 Journal - Research Article

Bhandarkar, A. A., Kelly-Foleni, N. E., Sarkar, D., Jeffs, A., Slatter, T., Braithwaite, A., & Mehta, S. (2025). TP53 splice mutations have tumour-independent effects on genomic stability and prognosis: An in silico study. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26, 12080. doi: 10.3390/ijms262412080 Journal - Research Article

Polwatta Lekamlage, S., Boix De Jesus, A. N., Machado Saraiva, A., Drummond, C., Dolan, H., March de Ribot, F., Royds, J. A., Mehta, S., Braithwaite, A. W., Hung, N. A., & Slatter, T. L. (2025). Δ133p53 isoform enhances TLR4 function to promote tumour growth. Carcinogenesis, 46(4), bgaf051. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgaf051 Journal - Research Article

Nezbedová, L., McGhie, T., Mehta, S., Christensen, M., Ahmed Nasef, N., & Heyes, J. (2025). Using the orchard-to-fork approach in designing nutritional trials: The apple phenolics case. Analytical Methods. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1039/d4ay02017k Journal - Research Article

Bhandarkar, A. A., Sarkar, D., Jeffs, A., Kelly-Foleni, N. E., Braithwaite, A., Slatter, T., & Mehta, S. (2025). Role of the TP53 splice mutations in cancer progression. Proceedings of the Genetics Otago (GO) Annual Symposium. Retrieved from https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/go Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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