Dr. Agieshkumar has more than 15 years of experience in vector borne disease research. During his doctoral work he was involved in exploring the molecular basis of vector-parasite interactions. During his first postdoctoral training at Texas Tech University (USA) he studied the role of sphingolipids in the virulence of Leishmaniasis. His second stint of postdoctoral training at the Dept of cellular biology, University of Georgia (USA) gained him training on RNA interference mediated gene silencing in vectors. His expertise includes Molecular cloning, microinjection and homologous recombination methods. He started his career as Assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biotechnology (SCBT), SASTRA University (Deemed), India. There apart from teaching to B.Tech, M.tech and M.Sc students in various areas of Biotechnology, he had mentored students for UG and PG dissertations, and PhD degree. He has received extramural funding from National agencies; DBT, ICMR. He has published several high quality papers in peer reviewed Journals including Plos NTDs, Plos One, IUBMB life, JCV, IJID, Green chemistry etc.,. Dr. Agiesh joined CIDRF in 2015 and is currently researching on “Lipids in the pathogenesis of dengue virulence& biomarker identification for early prediction of severe dengue”. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Entomology, UK (2019).
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M.Sc. Medical Biochemistry; Ph.D. In Biochemical Oncology;  Post-Doctoral Fellowship (India) Cancer Biology; Post-Doctoral Fellowship (USA) Developmental Therapeutics

Dr. Balanehru Subramanian has seven years of experience as Deputy Director and four years as Head of an inter-disciplinary biomedical research facility in India.  Dr. Balanehru Subramanian has over 23 years of international expertise in the development of new drug/product discovery and development from drug screening onwards. 10 years of experience in product development in the area of nutritional food/beverages/dietary supplements. USA/India based research experience in translational medicine, biotechnology, proteomics, genomics, cell culture, toxicology, therapeutic assessment, animal testing.

Ph.D Endocrinology, University of Madras

 

M.Phil Endocrinology University of Madras

 

M.Sc Life sciences in School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University

 

B.Sc Ed. (Chemistry, Botany and Zoology) Regional Institute of Education Mysore, University of Mysore.

 

She joined CIDRF since June, 2011 and involved in establishment of Central Inter-Disciplinary Research Facility. Area of research includes bone health, stem cells, endocrinology and evidence based traditional medicine.

 

She is Co-Investigator for one ongoing and one completed DBT funded project.

 

She had co-authored 7 publications in peer reviewed international journals with cumulative Impact factor of 21.11 and total citation index of 364.

 

Her research work is on the scientific validation of Terminalia arjuna for osteoporosis using mesenchymal stem cells, ovariectomized animal model, High Sucrose High fat Diet induced mice model.

 

She is currently guiding a Ph.D student.

 

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