GRANTS

Sl. No	Title of Project	Funding Agency	Duration (From-To)	Total Approved Cost of theProject (In Rs.)
1	Isolation and identification of anticancer principle from Mistletoes(Viscum album) growing on various host trees	ICMR, Govt. of India	2006-2009	10,17,600
2	Development of High Specific and High Affinity monoclonal antibody against human IgM.	TreeLand Biotech	2006-2009	32,38,320/-
3	Isolation and identification of anticancer principle from the indigenous medicinal plant, Wrightia tinctoria	CSIR, Govt. of India	2006-2009	12,72600/-
4	Antineoplastic molecules associated with bacteria from entomopathogenic nematodes Co-PI	STEC, Govt of Kerala	2007-2010	11,25300/-
5	Novel polymer nanoparticle based drug releasing systems for improving the efficacy of drug administration in cancer chemotherapy. Co-PI	DBT, Govt. of India	2008-2011	41,53,000

Completed Research Projects

Sl. No	Title of Project	Funding Agency	Duration (From-To)	Total Approved Cost of theProject (In Rs.)
1	Synergistic effect of taxol and curcumin in inducing apoptosis of cancer cells	STEC, Govt. of Kerala	2003-2006	6,07,000
1	Potential Role of curcumin in regulating the effects induced by the major carcinogens in cigarette smoke, such as nicotine, NNK and B(a)P in normal and cancerous lung cells.	DST, Govt. of India	2004-2007	19,97,000

COLLABORATIONS

1. Dr. Bharat Aggarwal, M.D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA- Role of TNF- family members on proliferation and apoptosis
2. Dr. S Banerjee, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan ,USA- Intellectual collaboration on animal experiments
3. Dr. Y.Venkateshwarlu, Scientist E II Indian of Chemical technology, Hyderabad, -CSIR Project, Isolation and identification of anticancer principle from the indigenous medicinal plant, Wrightia tinctoria
4. Dr.M.Sreerama Moorthy, Indian of Chemical technology, Hyderabad – Identification of new of anticancer drugs
5. Dr. N Sakthivel- Department of Biotechnology Pondicherry University-CSIR Project Molecular genetics of antibiotic production in antagonistic strains of Pseudomonas flourescens Isolation and purification of the drug from the bacterial strains
6. Dr. KP Laladhas, Department of Biochemistry, St.Stephan’s College Pathanapuram, University of Kerala DST Project-Isolation and Identification of anticancer principles from Sesbania grandiflora.
7. Dr. Unni M Chandrasekharan, Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, United State, Development of High Specific and High Affinity monoclonal antibody against human IgM.
8. Dr Sudhir Das, Antibody Research Corporation, 5988 Mid Rivehir Mall Drive        St.Charles, MO 63304, Development of High Specific and High Affinity monoclonal antibody against human IgM.
9. Dr. Daisy Philip, Department of Physics, Mar Evanios College, Thiruvananthapuram: Spectroscopic analysis for the structure elucidation of compounds
10. Dr. C Mohandas, CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram- STEC funded project, Antineoplastic molecules associated with bacteria from entomopathogenic nematodes
11. Dr. Bala Nambisan CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram- STEC funded project, Antineoplastic molecules associated with bacteria from entomopathogenic nematodes