Academic Qualifications

• B.Sc Zoology (Andhra University)
• M.Sc Zoology (University of Kerala)
• Ph.D Tumor Biology (RCC -University of Kerala)

Professional Record

• 2001-2004 August, Young Scientist and Principal Investigator in a Department of Science and Technology Project (Ministry of India) in Rajiv Gandhi Centre For Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala, India.
• 2006 January 5th, continuing Scientist E1, Division of Cancer Cell Biology, RGCB

Award

• Kerala University Third Rank- MSc
  DST Young Scientist Award.

Fellowship

• 1993-1995: Regional Cancer Centre, Junior Research Fellow in the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, New Delhi, India)
  1995-1997: Regional Cancer Centre Senior Research Fellow CSIR
  1999-2001: Research Associateship / Post Doctoral Fellow in CSIR Project: “Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their Inhibitors during tumor progression in the uterine cervix.
  2004 September-December: Research fellow in Dept Of Surgical Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. MA, Boston, USA
  2005-February-to December 31st Clayton Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow in Dept of Experimental Therapeutics, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, Texas, USA..

Memberships

• Member, Society of Biological Chemists
• Life Member, Indian Association for Cancer Research(IACR)
• Life Member, Society for Biotechnologists-India

Patents

• Patent titled "Novel porphyrin derivatives for photodynamic therapy (PDT): A process for the preparation and thereof and their use as PDT agents and fluorescence probes for biological applications", D. Ramaiah, S. C. Karunakaran, V. S. Jisha, T. K. Chandrashekar, A. Sreenivasan, M. R. Pillai, S. A. Nair, S. B. P. Saras, C. M. Rao, K. S. Rao., Dated 14-Sep-2009 (Ref. No. 0147NF2009). Patent applied in India and abroad.