K P Mohana Kumar
Director
Inter University Centre for Biomedical Research & Super Speciality Hospital
India
Biography
Mohanakumar KP is the Director of Inter University Centre for Biomedical Research & Super Specialty Hospital, a Govt of Kerala autonomous institution with Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He graduated from Saurashtra University with a Masters degree in chemical neuroanatomy and PhD in Neurochemistry. He was Chief Scientist at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, where he has established a laboratory on neurodegenerative diseases, with special reference to Parkinson's disease, in relation to pathogenesis, progression of the disease and its treatment. His cybrids laboratory facility is recognized for his interest in mitochondrial involvement in neurodegenerative diseases. He has more than 125 peer reviewed publications, and guided 30 PhD students in the field of Neuropharmacology, and more than a hundred postgraduates in Medicine, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry and other biomedical discipline. A fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India; West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology and Indian Academy of Neurosciences, he received National Bioscientist Award from DBT, Govt. of India and ICMR, Govt. of India Young Scientist Prize. He is a Professor of Biological Sciences of AcSIR, India and served as Professor of TWAS-UNESCO and IISER, Thiruvananthapuram. He serves as editorial member of J Neurochem, Neurochem Int, Neurochem Res, Neurosci Med, Anat Cell Biol, etc.
Research Interest
Neurosciences