AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Area of Interest

• Translational approaches to combat emerging and re-emerging viral infections • Antiviral development (New compounds, inhibitors, drug repurposing, natural products etc.) • Developing novel delivery systems for prospective antivirals (in vitro and in vivo models) • Randomized-controlled trials to viral infections (Vaccines, Adjuvants and Antiviral agents) • Molecular signaling towards the host-pathogen interface and its impact on virus life stages • Identifying novel molecular markers for viral infections (pre-clinical and clinical studies)

Area of Expertise

Molecular pathogenesis of viral infections, in vitro and in vivo models of dengue virus infection, antiviral development and clinical trials to viral infection

Area of Research

Understanding the molecular pathogenesis to viral infections, Drug development to combat viral infections of national importance

Professional Affiliations & Contributions

Accomplishments:

• Member of Royal Society of Biology (MRSB), United Kingdom (01/10/2019 onwards)

• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 

• Member, Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC), Department of Homoeopathy, Govt. of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.

• Co-chair, Scientific Advisory Board (SAB-DHK), Department of Homoeopathy, Thiruvananthapuram, Govt. of Kerala.

• SCIRE Young Scientist Award (2019), SCIRE Research Forum, Cochin, Kerala India; 06 Nov 2019.

• Travel Award to attend 35th International Conference on Antiviral Research (ICAR-2022), Seattle, WA, USA International Society for Antiviral Research (ISAR), USA.

• Travel Award to attend 33rd International Conference on Antiviral Research (ICAR-2020), Seattle, WA, USA International Society for Antiviral Research (ISAR), USA.

• Travel Award to attend 17th International Congress of Virology (IUMS-2017), Singapore; Singapore Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology (SSMB), Singapore.

• Best Thesis Publication Award in Health Sciences, Year 2013; Faculty of Graduate Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand.

• Ph.D. Scholarship - The Graduate Scholarship for International Students (Full Scholarship); Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital (Mahidol University), Bangkok, Thailand.

• Certificate of Appreciation - Successful completion of Phase-II clinical study in Psoriasis; Biocon India, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Certifications: 

• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program), Mahidol University, Thailand.

-  Biomedical Responsible Conduct of Research

-  Working with Mice in Research Settings

-  Working with Rats in Research Settings

-  Human Subjects Research (Biomedical Researchers)

-  Good Clinical Practice (Researcher Biological)

-  Institutional Official: Animal Care and Use

-  Working with the IACUC (Lab Animal Research)

-  Information Privacy Security (IPS) - Researchers

-  Post-Approval Monitoring (Lab Animal Research)

• Biosafety: Risk Assessment and SOP Development, Mahidol University, Thailand.

• Laboratory Animal Care - National Laboratory Animal Centre (NLAC), Mahidol University, Thailand.

• Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and Biohazards in Laboratory Practices, Mahidol University, Thailand.

• ICH-GCP, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kochi, Kerala, India.

• GCP and NDCT Rules, Issues in Research with Traditional Systems of Medicine, ICMR National Ethics Guidelines and Roles & Responsibilities of EC, Forum for Ethics Review Committee in India (FERCI), India. 

Memberships:

• International Society for Antiviral Research (ISAR)

• Indian Immunology Society (IIS), (Life-Member)

• Microbiology Society, UK (Affiliate member)

• The American Society of Microbiology (ASM)

• Society of Biological Chemist, India (SBC, India)