Venuprasad Poojary, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Schools Medical School | Graduate School Departments Internal Medicine | Immunology Graduate Programs Immunology Biography Venuprasad Poojary, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Immunology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases. Originally from Mangalore, India, Dr. Poojary holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and a master's degree in bioscience from Mangalore University. He earned his doctoral degree in immunology at the National Center for Cell Science in Kolkata, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow in immunology and cell signaling at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in San Diego, California. Dr. Poojary joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2019. Dr. Poojary is a member of the American Association of Immunologists, the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Society of Cell Biology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Research Interest Colon Cancer Gut Microbiota Inflammasome Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs) Th17/Treg Differentiation Publications Featured Publications Zbtb44-mediated transcriptional repression critically regulates colonic inflammation. Kathania M, Raj D, Govindarajan T, Raju DR, Verma AK, Roy A, Mathur R, Woody J, Singh AK, Ahn C, Patel S, Yin J, Lemoff A, Theiss AL, Xing C, Wu T, Burstein E, Venuprasad K, Nat Immunol 2026 Nov 27 11 2215-2224 Lipid-driven epigenetic exhaustion: linking palmitate metabolism to CD8+ T-cell dysfunction in cancer. Raj D, Kathania M, Wu T, Theiss AL, Venuprasad K, Immunometabolism (Cobham) 2026 Jul 8 3 e00086 Fine-tuning immunity: ubiquitin-dependent regulation of interleukin-17A expression by Th17 cells. Raj D, Verma AK, Mathur R, Woody J, Kathania M, Venuprasad K, Front Immunol 2025 16 1614409 RORĪ³t-Raftlin1 complex regulates the pathogenicity of Th17 cells and colonic inflammation. Singh AK, Kumar R, Yin J, Brooks Ii JF, Kathania M, Mukherjee S, Kumar J, Conlon KP, Basrur V, Chen Z, Han X, Hooper LV, Burstein E, Venuprasad K, Nat Commun 2023 Aug 14 1 4972 Inner mitochondrial membrane protein Prohibitin 1 mediates Nix-induced, Parkin-independent mitophagy. Alula KM, Delgado-Deida Y, Callahan R, Till A, Underwood L, Thompson WE, Souza RF, Dassopoulos T, Onyiah J, Venuprasad K, Theiss AL, Sci Rep 2023 Jan 13 1 18 Pak2-mediated phosphorylation promotes ROR?t ubiquitination and inhibits colonic inflammation. Kathania M, Kumar R, Lenou ET, Basrur V, Theiss AL, Chernoff J, Venuprasad K, Cell Rep 2022 Sep 40 11 111345 ROR?t protein modifications and IL-17-mediated inflammation. Kumar R, Theiss AL, Venuprasad K, Trends Immunol 2021 Nov 42 11 1037-1050 Targeting Mitochondrial Damage as a Therapeutic for Ileal Crohn's Disease. Alula KM, Jackson DN, Smith AD, Kim DS, Turner K, Odstrcil E, Kaipparettu BA, Dassopoulos T, Venuprasad K, Feagins LA, Theiss AL, Cells 2021 May 10 6 NLRP6 in host defense and intestinal inflammation. Venuprasad K, Theiss AL, Cell Rep 2021 Apr 35 4 109043 Cutting Edge: Hypoxia-Induced Ubc9 Promoter Hypermethylation Regulates IL-17 Expression in Ulcerative Colitis. Kumar R, Singh AK, Starokadomskyy P, Luo W, Theiss AL, Burstein E, Venuprasad K, J Immunol 2021 Mar 206 5 936-940 Results 1-10 of 26 1 2 3 Next Last Books Featured Books Immune regulation by ubiquitin conjugation. In Lymphocyte Signal Transduction Venuprasad K, Yang C, Shao Y, Demydenko D, Harada Y, Jeon MS, Liu YC. (2008). Springer Link Cbl-b-mediated regulation of cell signaling and cancer. In Signaling Pathways in Immune Cells Venuprasad K. (2011). Springer Link Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association for Advancement of Science (2009) American Association for Cancer Research (2009) American Association of Immunologists (2006) American Society of Cell Biology (2009)
