Kaliaperumal Venkatesh, M.D.

Education and Professional Experience

2000 M.B.,B.S Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India.
2005 M.D (Clinical Microbiology) Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India.
2005 Post doctoral fellow- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Honors and Awards

1. Dept of biotechnology, Govt of India- DBT Post Doctoral Fellowship
2. MD (Microbiology)- Gold Medal from Pondicherry Central University
3. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Junior Research Fellowship in Life Sciences
4. Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR)- Junior Research Fellowship
5. Certificate of Honour in Biochemistry (M.B.,B.S)

Invited Talks

1. Mitochondrial alterations in cancer and cancer stem cells. Second Indo-US workshop on "Mitochondrial Research and Medicine" Manipal University, India (2008.11).
2. ‘Simple diagnostic methods in Infectious diseases’ Department of Microbiology, Smt. N.H.L Municipal Medical college, Ahmedabad (2005.4).

Publications

Original Papers

1. Arcanobacterium haemolyticum associated with pyothorax: case report.
   Subhash CHANDRA Parija, Venkatesh Kaliaperumal, Saka VINOD Kumar, Sujatha Sistla, Venkateshwara Babu, Balu V
   BMC Infectious Diseases 2005, 5:68 (2005).
2. Atypical mycobacterial infection among HIV seronegative patients in Pondicherry.
   Sivasankari P, Khyriem AB, Venkatesh K, Parija SC.
   Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci. Apr-Jun;48(2):107-9, 2006.