Dr. P. Venkataraman

Dr. P. Venkataraman, PhD

Associate Professor (Research)
Dr. P Venkataraman completed his both UG and PG in Biochemistry from Adhiparasakthi college of Science affiliated by University of Madras and MPhil degree (2002) from Department of Endocrinology, University of Madras, Chennai, India and was awarded PhD degree at the age of 32 years from the same department on 2009. At present he is working as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Kattankulathur campus Chennai, India. He has published his research works in 57 international peer-reviewed journals especially in Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, Endocrine Research, Neurotoxicology, International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, Neuroscience Research, Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, BBA Clinical, Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, Gene Reports and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences.
Top 5 Publications Venkataraman P, Sridhar M, Dhanammal S, Vijayababu MR, Srinivasan N, Arunakaran J (2004). Antioxidant role of zinc in PCB (Aroclor 1254) exposed ventral prostate of albino rats. Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 15(10), 608-613. (IF-6.1) Venkataraman P, Selvakumar K, Krishnamoorthy G, Muthusami S, Rameshkumar R, Prakash S, Arunakaran J (2010). Effect of melatonin on PCB (Aroclor 1254) induced neuronal damage and changes in Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase-4 mRNA expression in cerebral cortex, cerebellum and hippocampus of adult rats. Neuroscience Research 66; 189-197. (IF-3.0) SivakumarAnnamalai, LavanyaMohanam, Veena Raja, AlwinDev, Venkataraman Prabhu (2017). Antiobesity, antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects of Diallyltrisulphide (DATS) alone or in combination with Orlistat on HFD induced obese rats. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 93, 81–87. (IF-7.4) G Vinothkumar, S Krishnakumar, G Shivashekar, S Sreedhar, S Dinesh, A Sundaram, D Balakrishnan, Venkataraman P (2018). Therapeutic impact of rHuEPO on abnormal platelet APP, BACE 1, presenilin 1, ADAM 10 and Aβ expressions in chronic kidney disease patients with cognitive dysfunction like Alzheimer’s disease: A pilot study. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 104, 211-222. (IF-7.4) Richa Gulati, Dhruva Nandi, Koustav Sarkar, VenkataramanPrabhu, RamkumarKunkaMohanram, PriyaRanjan and Rajiv Janardhanan (2022). Exosomes as Theranostic Targets: Implications for the Clinical Prognosis of Aggressive Cancers. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 9:890768. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.890768. (IF-6.11) Working Papers: Ongoing and Completed Project Details ICMR: Effect of erythropoietin on platelet amyloidogenic pathway and serum inflammatory molecules in patients with CKD: Biochemical and Molecular study (ID No. GIA/ 77/ 2014-DHR). Status: Completed, Role: Principal Investigator. Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India): Regulation of parathyroid hormone stimulation of matrix metalloproteinase-13 expression in osteoblastic cells by MicroRNAs. (ID No. BT/ PR15014/ BRB/ 10/ 1481/2016). Status: Completed, Role: Co-Principal Investigator. ICMR: Identification of MicroRNAs Regulating Transforming Growth Factor-beta1-stimulated Activating Transcription Factor-3 Expression in Human Breast Cancer Cells (ID. 2018-0978). Status: On Going, Role: Co-Principal Investigator. ICMR: Identification of MicroRNAs Regulating Runx2 Activity for TGF-Beta 1-stimulation of Matrix Metalloproteinase-13 Expression in Osteoblastic cells (ID. 2020-0282). Status: On Going, Role: Co-Principal Investigator. SRM IST fund under the selective excellence research program: Impact of melatonin and DATS supplementation on obesity related genes in HFD induced rats. (No. 60, Year 2016). Status: Completed, Role: Principal Investigator SRM IST fund under the selective excellence research program: Exploring an etiological role of BisphenolA (BPA) in diabetes and its vascular complications with mechanistic systemic and cellular insights (2020-21). Status: On Going, Role: Principal Investigator.