Dr.Lokanatha Valluru obtained
his Ph.D., in Zoology from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India in
1995. After obtaining Ph.D., he continued as Research Associate (CSIR) at the same University. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas Medical
Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA, studied the role of MnTBAP a broad spectrum of free radical scavenger on spinal cord injury in the department of neurology and also studied the kainite receptors by using a patch-clamp technique in the department of pharmacology.
He then joined in the Department of Biotechnology, Dravidian
University as Assistant Professor in the year 2008. Dr. Valluru laboratory is focused on investigating the therapeutic
efficacy of vitamin E on oxidative
injury in brain and
liver of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) challenged chickens. Our
findings could provide
new insights into
the understanding of NDV
pathogenesis and therapeutic
effects of dietary
antioxidants. He also continued
to work on developing the phosphorylated anti-viral molecules which are
efficient anti-viral drugs with multi-target blocker against fusion and/ or
HN proteins of infectious viruses.
His group studying on Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) caused cervical cancer: Biomarkers for diagnosis
and treatment and STZ-induced diabetes,
MTZ-induced hypothyroidism and CdCl2 induced hypertension disease were
treated with marine macroalgae in collaboration with Central Marine and Fisheries
Research Institute (CMFRI), Cochin. To fulfill this, he established a multidisciplinary program engaged at the interface of physiology, animal cell culture,
biochemistry, immunolocalization
bioinformatics, and molecular biology studies. In order to achieve the targets in the
above challenged areas of research, he obtained reasonably good financial
support from the DSIR ( 1 project completed)., U.G.C. (1 project-completed), DST-SERB (2 projects –
Completed), DBT (1 on going 2017-‘20).
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Visits abroad: USA, Argentina,
Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Maldives, Singapore, France, Germany
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