biography

Dr.V.Aravindhan obtained his PhD from Tuberculosis Research Centre (ICMR), Chetpet, Chennai. He underwent post-doctoral training, first at U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Bethesda, MD, US and then at National Cancer Institute (NCI)-National Institute of Health (NIH), Frederick, MD, US under the mentorship of Dr. Dennis M. Klinman. He headed the department of Transcriptomics and Molecular Immunology at Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), Siruseri. He is currently heading the lab of Molecular Immunology at our centre. He has more than ten years of research experience in the field of immunology and molecular biology. His current interest is to study the infectious etiology of metabolic diseases. Currently, he is working on altered immune responses under conditions of diabetes-tuberculosis (DM-TB) and diabetes-Lymphatic filariasis (DM-LF) co-morbidities.