Manickam Ravichandran

About

Prof. M. Ravichandran is a veteran in the area of Medical Microbiology, Molecular diagnostics, Vaccinology, Genetic engineering, Research, and Administration, with almost over 20 years of distinguished experience.
Prof M. Ravichandran obtained his M.Sc.-Medical Microbiology from Christian Medical College, Vellore in 1991 and gained his PhD degree from Anna University, Chennai, India in 1997. Currently his research interests are cholera vaccine, molecular diagnostics and phage therapy. He has constructed several cholera vaccine candidates for O139 Vibrio cholerae and developed several simple cold chain free molecular diagnostic kits. He has 65 publications in international journals (Cumulative citations 584), supervised 40 postgraduate students, filed 9 patents and commercialized 3 products on diagnostics.

He has been awarded with 45 national and international awards for the academic and research excellence including Ideas Inventions New Products -(IENA), Nuremberg Germany; International Exhibition of Inventions: New Technologies and Products, Geneva and Anugerah Inovasi Negara. He is an associate member of Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) and Expert panel member for R,D&C grants- Sciencefund, Technofund, Community Innovation Fund (CIF) and Enterprise Innovation Fund (EIF), and Innovation (MOSTI); He was the Committee member on ‘TOP RESEARCH SCIENTISTS MALAYSIA’(TRSM) of Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM). He was one of the Founding member of Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia and the former vice chancellor of AIMST University Malaysia. Currently he is the Dean of Faculty of Applied Sciences, AIMST University and the member of Board of Governors of AIMST University. His hobbies include star gazing, gardening and birds watching.

Employment

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Education

• Anna University PhD
  1992 - 1997
• Christian Medical College, Vellore MSc Medical Microbiology
  1988 - 1991

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Publications (12)

• Neutralizing Antibody Response Dynamics in COVID-19: Insights from Healthy Vaccinees, Breakthrough Infections, and Critically Ill Patients
  Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 2026 DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed11070178
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• Coumarin-Derived Oxadiazoles as Broad-Spectrum Anti-Coronavirus Agents: Synthesis, Characterisation, and Antiviral Evaluation
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6833403
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• Synthesis, Characterization, Toxicity Analysis and in silico Evaluation of New 1,4-Benzopyrone Analogue against Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
  Mohammad Auwal Sa’ad, Manickam Ravichandran, Shivkanya Fuloria

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  • Vetriselvan Subramaniyan
  • Pankaj Agrawal
  • Gautam Bhardwaj
  • Neeraj Kumar Fuloria
  Asian Journal of Chemistry 2025 DOI: 10.14233/ajchem.2025.32910
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• In silico Analysis of Antiviral Potential of New Coumarin Analogues against Coronavirus
  Mohammad Auwal Sa’ad, Manickam Ravichandran, Shivkanya Fuloria +4 more
  Asian Journal of Chemistry 2024 DOI: 10.14233/ajchem.2024.31430
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• Synthesis, Characterization and Response of Newer Benzamidine Analogues against Porphyromonas gingivalis mediated Peri-Implantitis
  Asian Journal of Chemistry 2024 DOI: 10.14233/ajchem.2024.31103
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• Synthesis, Characterization, Docking Studies and in vitro Response of New Camptothecin Derivatives towards Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  Asian Journal of Chemistry 2024 DOI: 10.14233/ajchem.2024.31038
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• Synthesis, Characterization and in vitro Anticancer Activity of New Quinoline Analogues against Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  Sridevi Ugrappa, Neeraj Kumar Fuloria, Pattabhiraman Lalitha +11 more
  Asian Journal of Chemistry 2023 DOI: 10.14233/ajchem.2023.28057
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• Development of a Simple Protocol for Zymogram-Based Isolation and Characterization of Gingipains from Porphyromonas gingivalis: The Causative Agent of Periodontitis
  Applied Sciences 2023 DOI: 10.3390/app13074314
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• Synthesis, Characterization, Cytotoxicity Analysis and Evaluation of Novel Heterocyclic Derivatives of Benzamidine against Periodontal Disease Triggering Bacteria
  Antibiotics 2023 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12020306
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• Synthesis, Characterization and Biological Evaluation of New Benzamidine Derivatives: Antibiotics for Periimplantitis Causing Pathogen
  Ajay K Jain, Mohammad Auwal Sa’ad, Sridevi Ugrappa +8 more
  Asian Journal of Chemistry 2023 DOI: 10.14233/ajchem.2023.28022
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• Dual-Use Vaccine for Diarrhoeal Diseases: Cross-Protective Immunogenicity of a Cold-Chain-Free, Live-Attenuated, Oral Cholera Vaccine against Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) Challenge in BALB/c Mice
  Vaccines 2022 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines10122161
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• Repeated dose toxicity evaluation of a cold chain-free, live, attenuated oral cholera vaccine in Sprague Dawley rats
  Vaccine 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.12.027
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