UNIVERSITY (A.P.) UNIVERSITY TEACHER PROFILE

Name of the Teacher : Dr. Lokanatha Valluru

Qualifications : M.Sc., Ph.D.,

Designation : Professor and Head

Department : Zoology

Areas of Specialization : Animal Virology, Cancer Biology, Neuroscience

Date of Birth : 01.08.1967

Date of joining in RU : 29.11.2017

Phone No. & Email Id : 9652840923, [email protected]

Academic Achievements

Research: International Publications: Articles: 37 Books : - National Publications : Articles: 14 Books/ chapters : 01/ 02

Research Projects : Major: 5 completed, 01 (on going) Patents : 01

Participation in : Seminars / conferences Workshops / Training International : 06 06 National : 36 06 Research Degree’s awarded: Ph.D : 02 (1 submitted) M. Phil : 01

Fellowship / Membership / Affiliations:  Associate Fellow, Akademi of Sciences, , 2010  Scientist of the year award, National Environmental Science Academy, NEW , 2009  National Institute of Health Post-doctoral fellowship, UTMB, Galveston, USA, 2002  Intl. Soc. of Neurochem. (ISN) travel grant award, Bueonos Aires, ARGENTINA, 2001  Asian Molecular Biologists Organisation (AMBO) fellowship, Osaka, JAPAN, 1999  Young scientist travel grant award by FAOPS Congress, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA, 1998  Young scientist travel grant award by MPPS, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA, 1996  Awarded 4th rank in M. Sc., S.V. University, , 1990 Memberships: 1. Life Member (L.M.No.2015036) for Indian Society of Cell Biology, , 2015 2. Life Member (L.M.No.3339) in The Society of Biological Chemists, India, Bangalore, 2014 3. Life Member (L16245) in Indian Science Congress Association, Calcutta, India, 2010 4. Life Member (L.M.No. 1211) in Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi, India, 2008 5. Member, International Brain Research Organization, France 6. Member, Society for Neuroscience, USA 7. Member, Indian Society for Comparative Animal Physiology, Tirupati 8. Member, Society for Toxicology, Lucknow

Research Interests

Dr.Lokanatha Valluru obtained his Ph.D., in Zoology from Sri Venkateswara University, Tiurpati, India in 1995. After obtaining Ph.D., he continued as Research Associate (CSIR) in the same University. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA, he studied the role of MnTBAP a broad spectrum of free radical scavenger on spinal cord injury in the department of neurology and also studied on the kainite receptors by using patch clamp technique in the department of pharmacology. He, then joined in the Department of Biotechnology, as Assistant Professor. Dr. Valluru laboratory is focused at investigating the therapeutic efficacy of vitamin E on oxidative injury in brain and liver of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) challenged chickens. Our findings could provide new insights into the understanding of NDV pathogenesis and therapeutic effects of dietary antioxidants. He also continued to work on developing the phosphorylated anti-viral molecules which are efficient anti-viral drugs with multi target blocker against fusion and/ or HN proteins of an infectious viruses. His group studying on Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) caused cervical cancer: Biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment. To fulfill this, he established a multidisciplinary program engaged at the interface of physiology, animal cell culture, biochemistry, bioinformatics, and molecular biology. In order to achieve the targets in the above challenged areas of research he obtained reasonably good financial support from the U.G.C, DSIR, DST, SERB and DBT

Selected Publications

1. Madhava, G., Venkata Ramana, K., Madhu, S., Subba Rao, D., Hema Kumar, K., Lokanatha Valluru., Usha Rani, A. and Naga Raju, C. (2017).. Medicinal Chemistry. 13: 1-14. (IF 2.331), 2. Subramanyam Dasari, Suresh Karanam Anandan, Wudayagiri Rajendra, Lokanatha Valluru (2016). Asian Pac J Trop Dis. 6 (11): 909-917. (IF.0.423). 3. K.A. Suresh, Venkata Subbaiah K.C., Lavanya R, Chandrasekhar K., Naga Raju C., Suresh M. Kumar, Rajendra W. and Lokanatha Valluru (2016). Applied Biochem. Biotechnol. 180 (2): 361-381. (IF.2.08). 4. K.A. Suresh, Venkata Subbaiah K.C., Thaslim S. K. Basha, Naga Raju C., Suresh M. Kumar, Rajendra W. and Lokanatha Valluru (2016). Arch. Pharm. Chem. Life Sci. 349, 442–455 (IF. 1.53). 5. Ramamurthy C.H., Subastri, A., Suyavaran, A, Subbaiah, K.C.V., Lokanatha Valluru and Thirunavukkarasu, C. (2016). Environ Sci. Pollut. Res. 23: 7919-7929 (IF. 2.8). 6. Subbaiah, K.C. Lokanatha, Valluru., Rajendra, W., Ramamurthy, C., Thirunavukkarusu, C., and Subramanyam, R. (2015). International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 64: 97–106. (IF 4.596). 7. Subramanyam, D., Rajendra, W. and Lokanatha, Valluru. (2015). Clinica Chimica Acta 445:7-11. (Invited critical review) (I.F. 2.764). 8. Subramanyam, D., Rajendra, W. and Lokanatha, Valluru. (2014). Medical Oncology 31: 139-145. (I.F. 2.14). 9. Subramanyam, D., Rajendra, W. and Lokanatha, Valluru. (2014). Biomed Research International. 1-6 (IF 2.8). 10. Subramanyam, D., Raju Naidu, D.S., Rajendra, W. and Lokanatha, Valluru. (2014) Biomedicine & Pharamachotherapy. 68: 315-320. (IF 2.06) 11. Liu D, Shan Y, Lokanatha Valluru, Bao F. (2013). BMC Neurosci. 14(1):23 (IF 3.04). 12. Kilaru Ravendra Babu, Valasani Koteswara Rao,Yellapu Nanda Kumar, Kishore Polireddy, Kadiam Venkata Subbaiah, Matcha Bhaskar, Lokanatha Valluru, Chamarthi Naga Raju (2012). Antiviral Research 95: 118–127 (I.F:4.439). 13. Lokanatha Valluru, Yao Diao, Jorge E. Hachmeister and Danxia Liu (2012). CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets 2012;11(6):774-790. (I.F.3.57) 14. Venkata Subbaiah, K.C., Raniprameela, D., Visweswari, G., Rajendra, W. and Lokanatha, Valluru. (2011). Naturwissenschaften 98 (12): 1019-1026. (I.F.2.3). 15. Jorge E. Hachmeister*, Lokanatha Valluru*, Fengo Bao, Danxia Liu (2006). J. of Neurotrauma 23 (12): 1766-1778 (I.F. 4.64). 16. Lokanatha Valluru, Jian Xu, Yongling Zhu, Sheng Yan, Anis Contractor and Geoffrey T. Swanson (2005). J. Biol. Chem. 280(7): 6085–6093. (I.F. 7.2).