Lokanatha Valluru

About

Dr.Lokanatha Valluru obtained his Ph.D., in Zoology from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India in 1995. After obtaining Ph.D., he continued as Research Associate (CSIR) at the same University. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA, studied the role of MnTBAP a broad spectrum of free radical scavenger on spinal cord injury in the department of neurology and also studied the kainite receptors by using a patch-clamp technique in the department of pharmacology. He then joined in the Department of Biotechnology, Dravidian University as Assistant Professor in the year 2008. Dr. Valluru laboratory is focused on investigating the therapeutic efficacy of vitamin E on oxidative injury in brain and liver of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) challenged chickens. Our findings could provide new insights into the understanding of NDV pathogenesis and therapeutic effects of dietary antioxidants. He also continued to work on developing the phosphorylated anti-viral molecules which are efficient anti-viral drugs with multi-target blocker against fusion and/ or HN proteins of infectious viruses. His group studying on Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) caused cervical cancer: Biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment and STZ-induced diabetes, MTZ-induced hypothyroidism and CdCl2 induced hypertension disease were treated with marine macroalgae in collaboration with Central Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Cochin. To fulfill this, he established a multidisciplinary program engaged at the interface of physiology, animal cell culture, biochemistry, immunolocalization bioinformatics, and molecular biology studies. In order to achieve the targets in the above challenged areas of research, he obtained reasonably good financial support from the DSIR ( 1 project completed)., U.G.C. (1 project-completed), DST-SERB (2 projects – Completed), DBT (1 on going 2017-‘20).
Visits abroad: USA, Argentina, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Maldives, Singapore, France, Germany

Employment

• Dravidian University Professor
  2008 - Present

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (2)

• The investigation of the efficacy of the prodrug DDI-10 against Newcastle disease virus infection in young chicken
  Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy 2022 DOI: 10.54034/mic.e1333
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• Phosphorylated abacavir analogue (ABC‐1) has ameliorative action against Newcastle disease virus induced pathogenesis in chicken
  Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 2019 DOI: 10.1002/bab.1814
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