Muthupandian Saravanan

Short Biography

Prof. Dr Muthupandian Saravanan has more than 21 years of teaching and research experience. Presently working as a Professor, Department of Pharmacology Saveetha Dental College, SIMATS, Chennai, India Since January 2021. He has Graduated in Microbiology from Madurai Kamaraj University and Doctorate with Specialization in Medical Microbiology and Nanomedicine from Sathyabama University, India. Thereafter, He worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher through Israel Government postdoctoral research fellowship in 2011-2012 in the Institute of Drug Research, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, focusing his research on Nano-biomaterials & their Biomedical Applications. Prior to his postdoc, he worked as an Assistant Professor (SG), SRM University, and Department of Biotechnology for six Years, from 2005 -2011. and After his post-doctoral research, he worked as Associate Professor, under the United nation development Program, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Mekelle University, Ethiopia (Oct 2012- Jan 2021). His Research Specialization: Development of Novel biomaterials for emerging and re-emerging Infection in particular Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) & Cancer.
He has published more than 170 research papers in Peer-reviewed Journal including high impact Journal The LANCET and Nature with more than 11000 citations and h-index of 46 and i10 index of 94. He has published Five books and 15 book chapters. He has participated in more than 75 National and International conferences and Reviewers of more than 100 international peer-reviewed journals. Guest editor/ Editors for various reputed PubMed and Scopus indexed journals, in particular, He has an Associate editor of highly reputed Q1 Journals: Frontiers in Pharmacology (Impact Factor 6.9) and Frontiers in Oncology (Impact Factor 6.2). He has received many fellowships and Awards notably, IET- Nanobiotechnology premium Awards two times continuously in the years 2019 and 2020, International Fellowship “Advanced Course on Diagnostics” Sponsored by LSH&TM & Fondation Mérieux, in France 2013, International Fellowship “Pertussis: biology, epidemiology and prevention” meeting Sponsored by Fondation Mérieux & WHO in France 2014, International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) travel grant in 2015 to Canada, International Fellowship “Advanced Course on Antibiotics” (AdCAb) Sponsored by Institute of Pasteur and Fondation Mérieux France, 2016.