Dr. Kavneet Kaur

Full Name

Dr. Kavneet Kaur

Qualifications

MD (Pathology)

Office Address

Room no. 3004, third floor, Convergence Block, Department of Pathology

Specialty

Head and neck pathology, Neuropathology

Areas of academic and research interest

Head and neck cancer, non-neoplastic diseases of head and neck

Notable Awards and Honors

• Shri Mohan Lal Wig Medal for best clinical research in AIIMS, 2015
• Young Scientist’s award at Asian Society for Neuro Oncology (ASNO) held at Osaka, Japan, 2017
• Smt Kunti Devi Mehrotra Award for best published paper in Annual conference of IAPM, 2016
• VR Khanolkar Award for best published paper in Annual conference of IAPM, 2018
• Herbert Krausse Award for Best paper in Neuro Oncology at the 66th Annual Conference of Neurological Society of India (NSICON), 2017
• V. Ramalingaswami Award for best oral presentation at Annual conference of IAPM-Delhi Chapter, 2016

Books and chapters

• Kavneet Kaur, Aanchal Kakkar, Chitra Sarkar. Embryonal tumors. In: Chitra Sarkar, Vani Santosh, Geeta Chacko (eds). Essentials of Diagnostic Neuropathology. Thieme 2017
• Suvendu Purkait, Kavneet Kaur, Vaishali Suri. Glial and glioneuronal tumors. In: Chitra Sarkar, Vani Santosh, Geeta Chacko (eds). Essentials of Diagnostic Neuropathology. Thieme 2017
• Kavneet Kaur, Chitra Sarkar. Pathology and Molecular Biology of Medulloblastoma. In:  Mallick S., Giridhar P., Rath G.K. (eds) Evidence based practice in Neuro-oncology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2659-3_5
• Kavneet Kaur. Neoplasia (South Asia content). In: Singh MK, Kumar V (eds). Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease: South Asia Edition, 10th ed. Elsevier, 2020

Top Research publications

1. Kaur K, Kakkar A, Kumar A, Mallick S, Julka PK, Gupta D, Suri A, Suri V, Sharma MC, Sarkar C. Integrating molecular subclassification of medulloblastomas into routine clinical practice: a simplified approach. Brain Pathol. 2016;26:334-343.
2. Kaur K, Kakkar A, Kumar A, Purkait S, Mallick S, Suri V, Sharma MC, Julka PK,  Gupta D, Suri A, Sarkar C. Clinicopathological characteristics, molecular subgrouping, and expression of miR-379/miR-656 cluster (C14MC) in adult medulloblastomas. J Neurooncol. 2016;130:423-430.
3. Kaur K, Jha P, Pathak P, Suri V, Sharma MC, Garg A, Suri A, Sarkar C. Approach to molecular subgrouping of medulloblastomas: Comparison of NanoString nCounter assay versus combination of immunohistochemistry and fluorescence in-situ hybridization in resource constrained centres. J Neurooncol. 2019;143:393-403.
4. Kaur K, Rajeshwari M, Gurung N, et al. Uterine tumor resembling ovarian sex cord tumor: A series of six cases displaying varied histopathological patterns and clinical profiles. Indian J Pathol Microbiol. 2020;63(Supplement):S81–S86.
5. Kakkar A, Nambirajan A, Kaur K, Kumar A, Mallick S, Suri V, Sarkar C, Kale SS, Garg A, Sharma MC. ATRX loss in glioneuronal tumors with neuropil-like islands indicates similarity to diffuse astrocytic tumors. J Neurooncol. 2016 Oct;130(1):63-68.
6. Vallonthaiel AG, Jain D, Singh V, Kaur K, Madan K, Kumar V, Iyer VK, Sharma MC. c-Myb Overexpression in Cytology Smears of Tracheobronchial and Pulmonary Adenoid Cystic Carcinomas. Acta Cytol. 2017;61(1):77-83.
7. Pal J, Patil V, Kumar A, Kaur K, Sarkar C, Somasundaram K. Loss-of-function mutations in Calcitonin receptor (CALCR) identify highly aggressive glioblastoma  with poor outcome. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Mar 15;24(6):1448-1458.
8. Kakkar A, Kaur K, Verma A. Pediatric mediastinal germ cell tumors. Mediastinum 2019;3:30.
9. Nambirajan A, Kaur H, Jangra K, Kaur K, Madan K, Mathur SR, Iyer VK, Jain D. Adenocarcinoma predominant pattern subtyping and nuclear grading in cytology – Is there a role in prognostication of advanced pulmonary adenocarcinomas? Cytopathology 2018; 29: 163-171.
10. Jha P, Manjunath N, Singh J, Mani K, Garg A, Kaur K, Sharma MC, Raheja A, Suri A, Sarkar C, Suri V. Analysis of PD-L1 expression and T cell infiltration in different molecular subgroups of diffuse midline gliomas. Neuropathology. 2019 Dec;39(6):413-424.

Ongoing Research Projects

• Mucormycosis in COVID-19 (AIIMS funded – ongoing)

Links

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kavneet-Kaur

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