2009 - 2014 PhD Thesis Titled “Molecular and Immunological Characterisation of E1 Coat protein Gene of Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV)” from Anna University, Chennai
2002 - 2005 BSc. Biotechnology, Calicut University
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Assistant Professorat Amala Cancer Research Centre Associates with Molecular Diagnostic LaboratoryFocuses on molecular detection of HCV, HBV and HIV (06/2020 – Present)
Research Lecturer at Amala Cancer Research CentreAssociates with Molecular Diagnostic LaboratoryFocuses on molecular detection of HCV, HBV and HIV (05/2019 - 05/2020)
National Post-Doctoral Fellow of SERB-DST at Amala Cancer Research Centre (05/2017-05/2019)
Research Lecturer at Amala Cancer Research CentreAssociates with Molecular Diagnostic LaboratoryFocuses on molecular detection of HCV, HBV and HIV (11/2015-05/2017)
Assistant Professor on contract at St. Mary’s College, ThrissurTaught MSc. Biotechnology and BSc. BiotechnologyGuided students in their Projects (06/2014 - 11/2016)
Research Fellow at SIBB R&D, Cochin Worked for the PhD degree,Molecular and Immunological Characterization of Chikungunya Virus, Production of recombinant antigen Development of recombinant antigen based ELISA,Early diagnosis of Chikungunya by antigen capture ELISA (01/2009 - 05/2014)
Junior Research Fellow at Amrita Institute of Medical Science, Cochin ,Molecular analysis of male fetal DNA in maternal blood,Non-invasive detection of Fetal DNA, Analysis of hyper variable regions of Mitochondrial DNA (11/2007 - 01/2009)
Achievements
National Post-Doctoral Fellowship from SERB-DSTClinical Molecular Diagnostic Reporting for Hepatitis C virus infectionTranslating the Basic Concepts of Data Analysis (05/2017 - 05/2019
Awards
3rd prize at National Level Conference on Recent Advances inNanobiotechnology held at Gulbarga University
