Associate Professor,
Faculty of Medicine
Qualifications:
PhD (Medical Microbiology)
Teaching & Research Experience:
- 11 years
Research Interest
Infectious disease biology
Grants, Award & Scholarships
- Young Scientist Award,Antiviral Society,India (2021)
- Young Faculty Award,India (2020)
- Fellow of Antiviral Society,India (2020)
Professional Involvement
Memberships in the Professional bodies:
Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists
International Association of Medical and Pharmaceutical Virologists
- Indian Association of Applied Microbiologists
Editorial Board Member: Current Microbiology (Springer nature)
Open Access Journal of Microbiology
Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
Asian Food Science Journal
- Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Science.
- Journal of Autoimmune Diseases and Rheumatology
Administrative Appointments/Committee Involvements
- Year 2 Coordinator – Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
- Course Coordinator – Personal and Professional Development & Ethics,MBBS
- Course Coordinator – Basic Microbiology and Parasitology
- Member in Institutional Biosafety committee
- Member in Quality Assurance committee
Selected Research and Publications
Book & Book Chapters
- Role of medicinal plants in the treatment of cancer.(2017). Cancer versus Nutraceuticals (Cancer etiology, Diagnosis and Treatments, Nova biomedical, Newyork,USA by Nova science publishers.
Publications
- Roles and mechanisms of stem cell in wound healing. Thurga Ayavoo, Karthikeyan Murugesan, Ashok Gnanasekaran. Stem Cell Investigation.2021;8:4.
https://sci.amegroups.com/article/view/63922/html - Muthuraman Muthuchamy, Manikannan Mathaiyan, Krupakar Parthasarathy, Lavanya Babu, Karthikeyan Murugesan, Ashok G, Sivasankaran Munusamy Ponnan, Luke Elizabeth Hanna. Effects of marine extracts on augmenting cytokine production and its anti tumor activity. Published: 19 June 2020.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12919-020-00190-4 - Role of microbiome in health and disease -A review. Nagalambika C, Gopenath TS, Karthikeyan Murugesan, Gnanasekaran A, Ranjith MS, Basalingappa KM Acad. J. Microbiol. Res. 8(7): 022-026.https://www.academiapublishing.org/journals/ajmr/pdf/2020/July/Nagalambika%20et%20al.pdf
- Targeting Notch signalling pathway of cancer stem cellsVandana Venkatesh,Raghu Nataraj,Gopenath S.Thangaraj,Murugesan Karthikeyan,Ashok Gnanasekaran,Shanmukhappa B.Kaginelli,5 Gobianand Kuppanna,Chandrashekrappa Gowdru Kallappa,and Kanthesh M. Basalingappa.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5897708/pdf/sci-05- 018.02.02.pdf
- Study on blood pressure (BP) status of Pos Raya primary school children using BP percentiles measured by ‘BP calculator for Diagnosis of Hypertension in children and adolescents’ Soe Naung, Abdul Rahman, Peela Jagannadha, Yupa Min, Nelapalli Nagaraja, Murugesan Karthikeyan. Medical Journal of Malaysia, Vol 70 Supplement 1 September 2015.http://www.e-mjm.org/2015/v70s1/mjm-sept-suppl-2128.html
- Nutritional status of Pos Raya Orang Asli primary school children by percentiles of height, weight and BMI compared to WHO standards. Kelvin Su Sieng Bing, Chung Ming Hong, Jonathan Chin Ching Ming, Soe Naung, Abdul Rahman, Peela Jagannadha, Yupa Min, Nelapalli Nagaraja, Murugesan Karthikeyan, Siti Hajar Mohamad Tahir. Medical Journal of Malaysia, Vol 70 Supplement 1 September 2015.
http://www.e-mjm.org/2015/v70s1/mjm-sept-suppl-2144.html
Journal Articles
- Improved Antibacterial Activity of Water-Soluble Nanoformulated Kaempferol and Combretastatin Polyphenolic Compounds (2021). Y. Santhosh Kumar, Langeswaran Kulanthaivel, G. S. Hikku, R. Saravanan ,Thangavelu Lakshmi, C. Kirubhaanand, Murugesan Karthikeyan, P. Vijayalakshmi and Gowtham Kumar Subbaraj. Hindawi International Journal of Polymer Science.Volume 2021,12 pages. (Impact Factor : 2.6). https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijps/2021/5682182/.
