Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Nanda Venu, MD
Assistant Professor
Doctor of Medicine (MBBS)
Kasturba Medical College Mangalore, Manipal University, 1997
Residency
Internal Medicine, Annamlai University Hospital, Tamil Nadu, India, 2000-2002
Internal Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 2004-2007
Fellowship
Gastrointestinal Cell Biology, Harvard University, Children’s Hospital of Boston, MA, 2003-2004
Gastroenterology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2007-2010

 Clinical Interests & Patient Appointments

PUBLICATIONS (To view complete Curruculum Vitae, click here)

Manuscripts

1. Claypool SM, Dickinson BL, Venu N, Wagner JS, Johansen FE, Borawski JA, Lencer WI, Blumberg RS.Bidirectional Transepithelial IgG Transport by a Strongly Polarized Basolateral Membrane Fc Gamma-receptor.  Mol Biol Cell. 2004 Apr; 15(4): 1746-59.
    
2. Dickinson BL, Claypool SM, Venu N, Wagner JS, Borawski JA, Blumberg RS and Lencer WI. Ca2+-dependent Calmodulin Binding to FcRn Affects Immunoglobulin G Transport in the Transcytotic Pathway. Mol Biol Cell. 2008 Jan; 19 (1): 414-423.
    
3. Kayhan A, Ilkchoui Y, Venu N, Jensen DM, Oto A. Multiple Abdominal Vascular Anomalies in a Patient with Alagille Syndrome. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2010 Apr 10.

Abstracts

1. Dickinson BL, Claypool SM, Venu N, Wagner JS, Borawski JA, Blumberg RS and Lencer   WI.“FcRN-Mediated IgG Trancytosis is Regulated by Calmodulin” Poster presentation at the annual scientific session 2003 at Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School.
    

2. Venu N, Stenson WF. “Indolamine Dioxygenase in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases” Poster presentation Mentors in Medicine Conference Washington University, St.Louis 2006.
3.  Venu N, Hart J, Patel B, Gautham R, Mohanty S. A Case of Drug-Induced Hepatitis from Methyl 1-P, an Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Am J Gastroenterology. 2008 Sept; S1(103):137 
    
4. Pekow J, Joseph LJ, Venu N, Huang Y, Gometz E, Dougherty U, Liu Q, Nathanson J, Cohen G,  Levy SE, Hart J, Yan B, Noffsinger AE, Hanauer SB, Hurst RD, Fichera A, Bissonnette M.  Ulcerative Colitis Gene Signature Distinguishes Patients Harboring Remote Dysplasia.  Abstract DDW 2010.
    
5. Pekow J, Dougherty U, Zhu H, Robinson VL, Mustafi R, Venu N, Kim KE, Joseph LJ, Fichera A, Bissonnette M. miR-143 and miR-145 are differentially expressed in the right and left colon and likely regulate differential expression of K-RAS and IRS-1: implications for colon cancer. Abstract DDW2010

Book Chapters

1. Venu N and Cohen RD. "The Economic Considerations in the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases” Inflammatory Bowel Disease – 2nd Edition State of the Art, Editor Russell Cohen; Clinical Gastroenterology Series, Humana (In Press)