Dr. K M Saravanan
Name: Dr. K M Saravanan
Qualification: Ph.D
Designation : Post Doctoral Fellow (2016-2018)
Department: Crystallography and Biophysics
Institute name : University of Madras (Guindy Campus)
College address : University of Madras (Guindy Campus)
Chennai 600 021
Kumbakonam 612704
Award for : Young Achiever Award
Publication title: Journal
Paper Title : Identification of novel GPR17-agonists by Structural Bioinformatics and signaling activation
Journal Name : International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Volume : 106
Issue No. : 1
Month of publication : January
Year : 2018
Page no. : 901-907
ISSN : 0141-8130
About Dr. K M Saravanan
Dr. Saravanan got the University First Rank in his M.Sc. and went onto complete his Ph.D. from Bharathidasan University under the supervision of Dr. S. Selvaraj. He then joined Prof. S. Krishnaswamy’s research group at Madurai Kamaraj University in 2013 under the distinguished UGC Dr DS Kothari Post-doctoral fellowship. Subsequently he joined for Post-doctoral work with Prof. P. Karthe in University of Madras. He was awarded the competitive DST-SERB National Post-doctoral fellowship. After that he went on to do research under a well funded Post-doctoral fellowship at Prof. Yanjie Wei’s Computational Biology and Bioinformatics group at Centre for High Performance Computing, SIAT of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Dr. Saravanan has more than five years of active post-doctoral research and his productivity is seen by the more than 40 peer reviewed research publications that he has to his credit. He also has successful collaborations with diverse research groups as evidenced by his collaborations with scientists from countries such as United States of America, United Kingdom, China and Finland. He is the life member of Indian Biophysical society and China Artificial Intelligence Society of Bioinformatics.