Dr Lakshmi Kiran Chelluri has obtained her under- graduate, post-graduate degree in Pharmaceutics from BITS (Pilani), & Ph.D (Immunogenetics) from Osmania University. She was awarded BOYSCAST fellowship funded by DST, at LUMC, Chicago. Her Post-doctoral research interest stemmed from Transplant Immunology leading to understanding organ regeneration strategies using multidisciplinary approaches. She is currently working as Head, Department of Advanced Diagnostics & Therapeutics at Global Hospitals. She has 74 peer reviewed international and national publications with H index of 11, authored two books, 4 book chapters & 1 monograph. She served International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy as Regional Secretary (Asia) for 3 years, & Global Executive Member (Invited Guest) of FACT for 2 years. She is a professional body member of IIS, STERMI. Being quality conscious, she serves as a freelance NABL, Advisory role. Lead and Technical assessor for ISO 15189:2012 (Medical Testing) for Molecular Medicine, and task force member of Emirates International Accreditation Centre (EIAC). She has provided doctoral and post-doctoral guidance to several students of biotechnology. She has also augmented her skills in Genomic Data Sciences in NGS, from John’s Hopkins University, observer at Salk Biological Research Institute on embryonic stem cell cultures. She was awarded DST-ITS travel grant for presenting research work at ISCGT annual conference. Her Post-doctoral guided student DST-RA work has been in the top 15% best work adjudged by the DST.

Her major scientific contributions include process development of segregating cardiac precursors from cardiac and non-cardiac tissue origins by identifying key markers SIRPA & KDR, using MACS, and for cell tracking by MRI in mice model. She has worked extensively on native and extra cellular matrix in liver regeneration and lab grown articular cartilage, using de-cellularization, re-cellularization, chitosan hydrogels. She has collaborative work on communicable disease susceptibility markers and infection mediated inflammatory responses such as Tuberculosis & Sepsis. Particularly, her work on Sepsis includes the identification of biomarkers and understanding the mechanistic pathways of necroptosis, pyroptosis, apoptosis and autophagy. She has worked on Streptozotocin induced diabetic, Isoproterenol induced cardiac failure disease models for studying the safety and efficacy of differentiated islet cells and cardiomyocytes in organ regeneration. Her work has elucidated the immunomodulatory properties of mesenchymal stem cells, with respect to the secretory IL-10 cytokine, in alleviating the inflammatory arthritis, synovium in in vitro studies. She has demonstrated the Treg and FoxP3 regulation of mesenchymal stem cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis in in vitro experiments. Her current focus is on the development of novel therapeutic strategies using organ-on-a-chip by microfluidics, 3D printing, and translating them from bench to bedside applications.

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Ranganathan N Iyer is working as a Senior Consultant in the department of Clinical Microbiology at Global Hospitals. He completed his MBBS at Rural Medical College of the Pravara Medical Trust, Loni, University of Poona and MD, Microbiology at Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, University of Poona. He is specialised in MD (Microbiology) DNB DPB, RR Path (UK), MAMS. He was invited by many institutions as guest faculty and delivered several lectures. Dr. Iyer has organised many CME programs, workshops and conferences medical students in Microbiology. He has been the Coordinator and Country Leader (India) for the International Department, the Royal College of Pathologists UK from 2015 till date.

Dr. Iyer works in a NABL accredited laboratory, (ISO 15189 2012 International standard for medical laboratories) since 2009. He has several years of teaching experience since 1991and to his credit he has published 31 research papers, 2 review articles in peer reviewed journals. He published a book on ‘Sample collection in Clinical Microbiology’ and shared authorship in two other book publications.

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Designation: Senior Consultant and Lead Transplant Physician

Affiliation: Department of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Lakdi-ka-pul, Hyderabad

Professional qualifications: MBBS and MD (General Medicine) from Manipal University; 1st qualified DM (Hepatology) from Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi. Also received short training in Transplant Hepatology in Division of Liver Diseases, Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, US and in Liver Intensive Care, Institute of Liver Studies, Kings College Hospital London, UK

Work experience: 10 years

Work area/ expertise: acute-on-chronic liver failure, portal hypertension, liver transplantation

Professional Memberships: American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), American Association for Study of the liver diseases (AASLD), Asia- Pacific association for study of liver (APASL), International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG), Indian National Association for Study of Liver (INASL), Liver Transplant Society of India (LTSI)

Research publications: Over 50 original and review articles in international and national peer reviewed journals.

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Dr. Meenakshi Ponnana currently working at Gleneagles Global Hospitals as a Research Associate was awarded doctoral degree in 2016 with Genetics as specialization from Osmania University, Hyderabad. She has 10 years of research experience holding technical expertise in Flow cytometry, Stem cell Culturing, Confocal Imaging, HLA typing by xMAP technology LUMINEX. She found the field of Life Sciences to be exciting with rapidly changing techniques, applications and innovation to cure deadly diseases. Her areas of interest include Cell Biology, Genetics and Immunology. She availed the prestigious International Travel Grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST) to present her work at European National Congress meeting held at Munich, Germany in 2014. She received gold medal for best poster presentation at one of the national conferences held at Vizag. Dr. Ponnana has 18 peer-reviewed research publications to her credit and attended national and international conferences to present her work.

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Among the most senior RD certified practicing Dieticians in the Telangana chapter with almost 28 years of clinical experience at various hospitals, Ms. Malleswari strongly believes in active participation of the Dietician in the multidisciplinary patient care team. Her areas of interest include Nutrition challenges in Pancreatitis, GDM, TPN and Liver Transplantation. She is a speaker at various conferences, awareness programs in schools, MNCs and is active in both print media and television. She is also a visiting faculty member for Advanced PG Diploma in clinical nutrition and Master’s applied nutrition Program by OU and NIN respectively. She is involved in training interns and fresh graduates. She has presented several papers at National and International conferences. “Bariatric surgery: Risks and rewards”, (IJSER,2017), “Malnutriton Post MGB- A case study’’, (IJNMHS,2019) are her published papers. She has also won awards at the IDA Annual convention in 1996, 2013, 2008 and at the 8th AICNU in SriLanka. Her professional memberships include IDA, AAROA, IAPEN.

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Designation: Senior Consultant Biochemist

Affiliation: Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Lakdikapul, Hyderabad.

Professional qualifications: MD Biochemistry from Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad and MBBS from MNR Medical College, Sangareddy.

Areas of Expertise/Exposure: She was a faculty member in Biochemistry and imparted knowledge to the undergraduate MBBS, BDS, Postgraduate MD & MSc. Biochemistry students; was a speaker in Zonal CME Programmes conducted by Dr.NTR University of Health Sciences during her tenure as an Assistant professor in Biochemistry at MNR Medical College, Sangareddy.

She had worked in profound clinical diagnostic laboratories as a Head of the Department in Clinical Biochemistry at Vijaya Diagnostics and Elbit Medical Diagnostics and Human Health. She has an expertise in Internal/External Quality Control measures, Calibrations, Sample analysis & reporting, and coordinates with other departments for the clinical interpretation of laboratory results and research.

She is a member of Association of Medical Biochemists of India (AMBI) and Twin cities association of Biochemists (TAB).

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Mr. Chandra Shekar Mallarpu completed his Post graduation (MSc) from Osmania University Hyderabad. Mr. Mallarpu is currently working as Research Scholar in Gleneagles Global Hospitals Hyderabad. He has total 07 years of research experience with expertise in Stem cell Culturing, Confocal Imaging, Flow cytometric technique and HLA typing in xMAP technology using LUMINEX. He has experience in animal studies (mice and rat). Mr. Mallarpu published research papers in peer-reviewed journals.

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SIREESHA DIVYAKOLU is currently working as Research Associate at Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Hyderabad, since 2014. She has more than 10 years of Research experience in Molecular microbiology. She is a postgraduate in Biotechnology from Periyar University. Ms. Sireesha is pursuing her Ph. D at JNTU. In the past she worked as ICMR JRF Fellow at Vasavi Medical and Research Centre (Project Title: Molecular and Genetic study of Beta Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) in various Neurological Disorders including Autism). She has 8 peer reviewed research publications in popular international and national journals. She has trained several students during her Ph. D tenure.

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SIREESHA DIVYAKOLU is currently working as Research Associate at Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Hyderabad, since 2014. She has more than 10 years of Research experience in Molecular microbiology. She is a postgraduate in Biotechnology from Periyar University. Ms. Sireesha is pursuing her Ph. D at JNTU. In the past she worked as ICMR JRF Fellow at Vasavi Medical and Research Centre (Project Title: Molecular and Genetic study of Beta Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) in various Neurological Disorders including Autism). She has 8 peer reviewed research publications in popular international and national journals. She has trained several students during her Ph. D tenure.

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Ms. SAIPRIYA KAMARAJU is working as Research Associate in the department of Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Hyderabad since 2014. She has 08 years of Research experience in Molecular microbiology. She completed post-graduation in the Department of Biotechnology from University College of science, Osmania University. Currently, she is pursuing Ph.D from JNTU, Kukatpally. She has 5 peer reviewed research publications in popular International and National journals. She has trained several students during her Ph.D tenure.

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V. HARITHA, Working as a Research Associate in Advanced Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics lab at GLOBAL HOSPITALS. She holds master’s degree in BIOTECHNOLOGY from Loyola academy and Bachelor’s in BIOTECHNOLOGY from Bhavan’s Vivekananda College in 2012. As a partial fulfilment of master’s degree she has done her internship from National Institute of Nutrition. She worked in L.V. Prasad Eye Institute as a Project Assistant at molecular genetics department where she was immensely involved working in ocular genetics related diseases like Glaucoma. She worked as a faculty at Sai Sudhir Degree College and gained teaching experience. Her key interest areas include molecular genetics, Immunology and Cancer biology. She always strives for gaining knowledge and to have in-depth understanding in the research areas related to molecular and genetics field.

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Miss Priyamvada Nayak completed her graduation from St.Joseph's women's college, Visakhapatnam in 2016 and post-graduation in Biotechnology from GITAM University, Visakhapatnam. She worked for 1 year as Research associate in Biognosys diagnostic company in molecular biology department. Currently she is working at Gleneagles global hospital as a Research associate in Advanced Diagnostic and Therapeutics’ lab. She is interested in the field of molecular biology and cell biology.

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