Academic Qualifications

• B.Sc. (Hons) Microbiology - 1977 (University of Bombay)
• M.Sc. Microbiology - 1979 (University of Bombay)
• Ph.D - 1984 (All India Institute of Medical Sciences)

Professional Record

• Microbiologist, Schieffelin Leprosy Research and Training Centre, Karigiri
• Research Assistant, Tuberculosis Research Centre, Madras
• Research Scientist, Biotechnology, Godrej Soaps Limited, Bombay
• Deputy Chief Research Scientific Officer, Cadila Laboratories, Ahmedabad
• Scientist, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB),Trivandrum

Professional recognition

• Research Associate Dept of Biology, Washington University St. Louis, MO., USA with Josephine Clark Curtiss and Roy Curtiss III.
• Research Associate Forschungs Institut Borstel, Germany with Prof. J .K. Seydel.
• Visiting Scientist Hansen’s Disease Laboratory, Centres for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, USA with Dr Thomas M Shinnnick.

Patents

• United States Patent
  5,731,151
• Regulator of Contact-mediated Haemolysin Inventors: Harold C King; Thomas M Shinnick; Sathish Mundayoor