Suresh Kumar Rayala is an Indian cancer biologist and a professor at the department of biotechnology of theIndian Institute of Technology Madras.^[1][2] Known for his molecular and mechanistic studies ofoncogenes andtumor suppressor genes,^[3] Rayala is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award of the Academy of Sciences,Chennai.^[4] TheDepartment of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him theNational Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18.^[5]

• Raghavan, Swetha; Venkatraman, Ganesh; Rayala, Suresh K. (10 March 2018). "Cloning and functional characterization of human Pak1 promoter by steroid hormones".Gene.646:120–128.doi:10.1016/j.gene.2017.12.039.ISSN 0378-1119.PMID 29274909.
• Tentu, Shilpa; Nandarapu, Kumarswamyreddy; Muthuraj, Prakash; Venkitasamy, Kesavan; Venkatraman, Ganesh; Rayala, Suresh K. (2018). "DHQZ-17, a potent inhibitor of the transcription factor HNF4A, suppresses tumorigenicity of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in vivo".Journal of Cellular Physiology.233 (3):2613–2628.doi:10.1002/jcp.26139.ISSN 1097-4652.PMID 28782802.S2CID 24932321.
• Kanakaveti, Vishnupriya; Sakthivel, Ramasamy; Rayala, S. K.; Gromiha, M. Michael (2017). "Importance of functional groups in predicting the activity of small molecule inhibitors for Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL".Chemical Biology & Drug Design.90 (2):308–316.doi:10.1111/cbdd.12952.ISSN 1747-0285.PMID 28112863.S2CID 22426356.
• Rayala, S. K.; Venkatraman, G.; Nair, A. S.; Jeyaraman, J.; Malathi, R.; Sundaram, S.; Chidambaram, S.; Pitani, R. S.; Biswal, J. (1 August 2016)."P21-activated kinase 1 (Pak1) signaling influences therapeutic outcome in pancreatic cancer".Annals of Oncology.27 (8):1546–1556.doi:10.1093/annonc/mdw184.ISSN 0923-7534.PMID 27117533.
• Rayala, Suresh K.; Venkatraman, Ganesh; Kremerskothen, Joachim; Surabhi, Rohan; Beesetti, Swarnalatha; Mavuluri, Jayadev (1 May 2016)."Phosphorylation-Dependent Regulation of the DNA Damage Response of Adaptor Protein KIBRA in Cancer Cells".Molecular and Cellular Biology.36 (9):1354–1365.doi:10.1128/MCB.01004-15.ISSN 0270-7306.PMC 4836221.PMID 26929199.

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