Theresia Thomas, Ph.D.



Dr. Thomas is an Associate Professor in the UMDNJ-RWJMS Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine. She is a member of the Special Review Group for NIEHS on Timing Environmental Exposures in Breast Cancer.

Associate Professor

Toxicology Division
Other
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Email: thomasth@umdnj.edu
Room: R-7092 - C
Phone: 732-235-8458
Fax: 732-418-8480
Research Interests:
Molecular Toxicology, Breast Cancer, Receptors, Gene Regulation, Estradiol, Polyamines and Dioxin.
Publications:

Thomas, T., Balabhadrapathruni, S., Gallo, M.A., Thomas, T.J. Development of polyamine analogs as cancer therapeutic agents. Oncol Res. 13(3):123-135, 2002.

Thomas, T.J., Thomas, T. Polyamine metabolism and cancer. J. Cell. Mol. Med. 7:112-126, 2003.

Ramirez, F.J., Thomas, T.J., Anthony, T./, Ruz-Chica, J., Thomas, J. Effects of aminoxy analogues of biogenic polyamines on the aggregation and stability of calf thymus DNA. Biopolymers. 65:148-157, 2002.

Saminathan, M., Thomas, T., Shirahata, A., Pillai, C.KS., Thomas, T.J. Polyamine structural effects on the induction and stabilization of liquid crystalline DNA: potential applications to DNA packaging, gene therapy and polyamine therapeutics. Nucleic Acids Research. 30:3722-3731, 2002.

Vijayanathan, V., Thomas, T., Thomas, T.J. Direct Measurements of the association constant of HER-2/neu antisense oligonucleotide to its target sequence using a molecular beacon. Antisense Nucleic Acid Drug Dev. 12:225-233, 2002.

Awards and Honors: 1999 Co-Chair, New Jersey Breast Cancer Symposium

1996-1999 Gallo Award from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey for Outstanding Cancer Research

1998 "Outstanding Breast Cancer Research Grant" Award from New Jerseys Commission on Cancer Research

1995 Invited Speaker, Workgroup on Ecosystem Health Subgroup on Toxicological Mechanisms

1993 Invited Speaker, Review Meeting on Trends in DNA Structure-Function and Genome Organization, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India