Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets

Dr. Surajit Pathak is an Indian born research scientist, advisor and an Associate Professor at CHETTINAD ACADEMY OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION, Chennai who has multiple expertise encompassing endocrinology, cancer biology, stem cell and regenerative medicine. He started active research in the year 2001 and received his Ph.D. from University of Kalyani, INDIA in 2007.Worked in USA, Italy and Sweden over 10 years with 930 citations. Dr. Pathak has published over 52 papers till date.

Dr. Ramesh Pothuraju, Ph.D. is currently working as Instructor (Junior Faculty) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, USA. During initial years of postdoctoral training at UNMC, he studied the differential expression of mucins in pancreatic as well as CRC progression and developed genetically engineered mouse models for CRC. Before joining at UNMC, he obtained his M.Sc. (2009) and Ph.D. (2015) degrees from the National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India. During his Ph.D. program, he studied the anti-obesity effects of probiotics (Lactobacilli) and herbal ingredients in diet induced obesity and insulin resistance mouse models. He gained extensive research experience of more than 10 years in functional foods, nanotechnology, obesity, diabetes, and their related metabolic disorders along with pancreatic and CRC. He has published several research and review articles (>35 articles) in peer reviewed scientific journals and cited >680 with H-index: 15 and i10-index: 22. In addition, he has served as an Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member as well as a reviewer for several international and national journals.

He was selected as the Outstanding Youth Research Talent Cultivation Program in Colleges and Universities in Fujian Province. He was a member of the standing committee Reproductive Health of Chinese Rehabilitation Medical Association, member of Fujian Medical Genetics Society, member of the standing Committee of Cancer Sequencing and Large Data Collaboration Group of China Anti-Cancer Association. Research Direction: enzymes and pain. As project leader, he is responsible for the youth and general program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81201362, No.81571613, and No.81871293) and participation in two National Major Basic Research "863" Programs. A series of innovative results were obtained in the fields of autoimmune diseases, pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer. More than 20 papers were published as the first author or correspondent author index by SCI and the impact factor was over 100, including "Cell Death & Disease", "EBioMedicine", "Int J Nanomedicine", "Biosensors & Bioelectronics" and other academic journals. The first prize winner received the 2009, 2014 Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Award. For his outstanding contribution, he was awarded the May4th Youth medal in Fuzhou.