Dr. Ramanathan K

Designation : Professor Higher Academic Grade
School / Centre : School of Bio Sciences & Technology
Department : Biotechnology

Educational Details

VIT University

Ph.D.
Bioinformatics
Graduated in 2011

Sastra University

M.Tech
Chemical Process and Design
Graduated in 2004

Bharathiar University

B. Tech
Chemical Engineering
Graduated in 2002

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Post Doctoral Experiences

Purdue University, USA


Research Details

Areas of Specialization
  • Machine Learning; Drug Discovery; Enzyme Engineering; Cancer Informatics; Vaccine Design

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Ongoing Funded Project Details

Title Funding Agency
Design and development of novel therapeutics for the management of cancers: AI-powered fragment based drug discovery strategy VIT-RGEMS

Completed Funded Project Details

Title Funding Agency
Discovery of Farnesyltransferase inhibitors using high-throughput multi-dimensional virtual screening strategy Foundation of Science and Technology Development (International Body) FOSTEC-Indo Vietnam Project
Discovery of Cancer Stem Cell (CSC) Signaling Pathways Inhibitors: A Paradigm Shift in the Cancer Therapy VIT-RGEMS
Tackling Lung Cancer Drug Resistance in INDIA: An Integrated Drug Repurposing Strategies DST- SERB
NanoToF: Toxicological evaluation and risk assessment on Nanomaterials in Food. DBT
Database of Drug Resistance Mutations and Virtual Compounds for Leprosy ICMR

Books / Book Chapters Published Details

Title Publisher Published Year
Recent Advances in Oxidative Stress Associated Chronic Diseases Springer 2025
Energy-Based Pharmacophore Hypothesis Combined with Molecular Simulation Protocol for the Screening of Bioactive Compounds from the Class of Actinobacteria Springer 2022
Probiotic Polysaccharides as Toll-Like Receptor 4 Modulators-An In Silico Strategy Elsevier 2021
Tackling Lung Cancer Drug Resistance Using Integrated Drug-Repurposing Strategy Elsevier 2019
Implementation of a Pipeline Using Disease-Disease Associations for Computational Drug Repurposing Springer 2019

Awards & Recognitions Details

  • Received ICMR International Fellowship award for the Young Biomedical Scientist for the year 2018-19 to execute training at Purdue University, USA in the field of Structural Biology and NGS Data analysis.

International Collaborations

  • Purdue University, USA
  • Korea University College of Medicine, South Korea
  • Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  • Barts Cancer Institute, London

Industry Collaborations

  • Kcat Enzymatic Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore
  • Biozone Research Technologies Pvt Ltd. Chennai
  • Viyen Biotech, Coimbatore

Other Information

Editorial Experience : Editorial Board Members - International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design - InderScience Publishers Editorial Board Members - Journal of Computational Systems Biology
Personal Website Link : linkedin.com/in/ramanathan-k-958ab440