One Health and Infectious Diseases

Biography

Professor Raman Muthusamy the adviser and Research Professor at the Center for Global Health Research at Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, SIMATS is the former Director of the Translational Research Platform for Veterinary Biologicals (https://www.trpvb.org.in/index.html) a novel partnership program of Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India at Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University(TANUVAS), Chennai(https://tanuvas.ac.in/index.php). Prof Raman M led the multi-country, Interdisciplinary GCRF One Health Poultry hub with £18.1 million funds at TANUVAS, Chennai  as National Co-ordinator and Principal Investigator (https://gow.bbsrc.ukri.org/grants/AwardDetails.aspx?FundingReference=BB/S011269/1) till July 2022 before joining in the dept of Microbiology, Centre for Infectious Diseases, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences in September 2022.

Currently Prof Raman M is working on a collaborative research project led by Australian National University under Australian Research Council-Discovery projects Rounds 1-2024  of (Project no.DP240100187) on “Planet Chicken: Chemical Entanglements in Asia's Poultry Boom” along with University of Sydney, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Chiang Mai University, Thailand and Institute of Cultural Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences with a budget of $696,101.00 for three years from Jan 2024 till December 2026 (https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP240100187 ).With Christian Medical College, Vellore he is working on NIH-NIAID Tropical Medicine Research Centre on “Changing the Landscape of Soil Transmitted Helminth Infections in India Using a One Health Approach” along with https://reporter.nih.gov/search/S5xR503SYUCNMaD_WD_t-g/project-details/10434981 Indian Institute of Public Health, Shillong, University of Washington, Seattle, University of California, Berkley and Quinnipiac University with a budget outlay of $347,100 for 4 years from March 2023 to Feb 2027. More recently with Dept of Bio medical technology dept of DST-Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Technical and Medical Sciences, Trivandrum (https://www.sctimst.ac.in/)  on evaluating the “Therapeutic patches with dissolving microneedles for the dermal delivery of acaricides for control of parasitic dermatitis” funded under the Core Research Grant, DST SERB with a budget outlay of Rs 40 lakhs for 3 years from April 2024 to March 2027.

Education

Key research areas

One health, Zoonosis, Neglected tropical diseases, Anti-microbial resistance , AI in public health

Recent Publications

  1. Zhao, X., Chinnathambi, A., Alharbi, S. A., Natarajan, N., & Raman, M. (2024). Nerolidol, Bioactive Compound Suppress Growth of HCT-116 Colorectal Cancer Cells Through Cell Cycle Arrest and Induction of Apoptosis. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 196(3), 1365–1375. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-023-04612-9 -   IF -3.094

  2. Nobendu Mukerjee, Sagnik Nag, Bikramjit Bhattacharya, Athanasios Alexiou, Divya Mirgh, Dattatreya Mukherjee, Manab Deb Adhikari, Krishnan Anand, Raman Muthusamy, Sukhamoy Gorai, Nanasaheb Thorat. (2024) Clinical impact of epithelial–mesenchymal transition for cancer therapy, Clinical and Translational Discovery,Volume4, Issue1 February 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/ctd2.260 - IF-3.00

  3. Sidhanti Nyahatkar, Divya Mirgh, Raman Muthusamy, Ketki Kalele (2024) Tumour hypoxia sensor: A state of the art in oral cancer liquid biopsy, Clinical and Translational Discovery, Volume4, Issue1 https://doi.org/10.1002/ctd2.261.  IF-3.00

  4. Mrunal Kulkarni, Rishav Kar, Srestha Ghosh, Swarup Sonar, Divya Mirgh, Indra Sivakumar, Abhijit Nayak, Raman Muthusamy (2024), Clinical Impact of Multi-omics profiling of extracellular vesicles in cancer Liquid Biopsy, The Journal of Liquid Biopsy, Volume 3, 2024, 100138,ISSN 2950-1954, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlb.2024.100138.IF-3.00

  5. Dhar, R., Gorai, S., Devi, A., Muthusamy, R., Alexiou, A., & Papadakis, M. (2023). Decoding of exosome heterogeneity for cancer theranostics. Clinical and Translational Medicine, 13(6), e1288. https://doi.org/10.1002/ctm2.1288. IF -10.6

  6. Mukherjee, S., Nag, S., Mukerjee, N., Maitra, S., Muthusamy, R., Fuloria, N. K., Fuloria, S., Adhikari, M. D., Anand, K., Thorat, N., Subramaniyan, V., & Gorai, S. (2023). Unlocking Exosome-Based Theragnostic Signatures: Deciphering Secrets of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis. ACS Omega, 8(40), 36614–36627. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c02837. IF-4.312

  7. Ramalingam, V., Muthusamy, R., Bohra, K., Palavesam, A., & Gopal, D. (2023). Cloning, expression and purification of Eimeria maxima gametocyte antigen-EmGam56 for control of poultry coccidiosis. Journal of Parasitic Diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology, 47(4), 773–777. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-023-01610-w. IF-1.29

  8. Sangavi, R., Muthumanickam, S., Malligarjunan, N., Jothi, R., Boomi, P., Arivudainambi, S., Raman, M., Joshi, C. G., Pandian, S. K., & Gowrishankar, S. (2023). In silico analysis unravels the promising anticariogenic efficacy of fatty acids against dental caries causing Streptococcus mutans. Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics, 1–16. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2023.2283155. IF-4.4

  9. Jange, R. G., Koka, K., Alam, M. S., Krishnakumar, S., Muthusamy, R., & Biswas, J. (2023). A rare case of lacrimal sac dirofilariasis confirmed by polymerase chain reaction. Orbit (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 1–3. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/01676830.2023.2278611. IF -1.1

  10. Kaliyaperumal, V., Manivannan, V., Karuppanan, C., Gopal, D. R., & Muthusamy, R. (2023). Construct Fluorescent Solid Lipid Nanoparticles from Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles to Study their Properties and Potential Applications as In Vivo and Invitro Imaging Agents. Journal of Fluorescence, 10.1007/s10895-023-03443-5. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-023-03443-5. IF-2.7

  11. Mukherjee, Dattatreya MBBS Dhar, Rajib MSc; Devi, Arikketh PhDb; Gorai, Sukhamoy PhD; Muthusamy, RamanPhD; Ganesh, Pitchaipillai S. PhD; Jha, Saurabh K. PhD; Akilimali, Aymar MD (2023). Exosome-based malaria vaccine, a miracle of nanomedicine. International Journal of Surgery: Global Health 6(3):e0141, May 2023. DOI: 10.1097/GH9.0000000000000141 IF- 15.3    

  12. Jha, V. K., Verghese, A., Basaiawmoit, P., Janakiraman, N., Raman, M., & Biswas, J. (2023). Removal and identification of a subconjunctival parasite by light and scanning electron microscopy. Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 71(9), 3270. https://doi.org/10.4103/IJO.IJO_830_23 IF-2.96