Rathinam Raja

About

Rathinam Raja is working as a Professor & Director of Centre for Integrative Medical Research (CIMR) at Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, Chennai. Raja has a wide degree of industrial and research experience in algae. He has gained rich knowledge from IIT M/Louisiana in culturing microalgae and their products that vary from beta-carotene to biofuel production. He has also worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at Taiwan, South Korea, and Auxiliary Investigator for a decade at the University of Algarve on exploiting the nutritional/health benefits of macroalgae and microalgae. Currently, Dr.Raja is working on exploiting the nutritional/health benefits of algae for human welfare. To his credit, he has published 53 international articles, eleven patents,16 books, 16 book chapters and eleven genbank depositions. He has visited more than twenty-five countries to present his research findings at various international conferences and meetings.

Employment

• Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital Professor & Director
  2021 - Present
• University of Algarve
  2012 - 2021
• Aquatic Energy LLC Lead Scientist
  2010 - 2011
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Post Doctoral Fellow
  2008 - 2010
• National Chung Hsing University Post Doctoral Fellow
  2004 - 2005

Education

• University of Madras Ph.D.,

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (37)

• Hydrocinnamic Acid From Candida albicans: Isolation, Characterization, and Antibacterial Activity Against Multidrug‐Resistant Bacteria
  Biomedical Chromatography 2026 DOI: 10.1002/bmc.70505
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• Experimental and in silico approaches to identify a sustainable source of bioplastics from seaweeds
  Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s13399-025-06766-4
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• Sulfate and Functional Groups Modify the Helical Conformation of Iota ‐Carrageenan Insight Difference in the Biological Activities
  ChemistrySelect 2025 DOI: 10.1002/slct.202500837
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• Fucoxanthin as antioxidant, anti-hyaluronidase and cytotoxic agent: potential of brown seaweeds decoction for tea supplement
  Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s11694-023-01911-x
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• Current status of microbes involved in the degradation of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) pollutants in the aquatic ecosystem
  Environmental Pollution 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.118922
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• Antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of sulfated polysaccharides from five different edible seaweeds
  Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s11694-020-00661-4
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• ‘Algal biotechnology: An update from industrial and medical point of view’
  Omics technologies and Bioengineering: Towards improving quality of life. 2017
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• Microalgae biomass production
  Marine macro and microalgae 2017
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• Internal Transcribed Sequence of Halocafeteria seosinensis (Bicosoecids).
  Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 2017
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• Recent developments in therapeutic applications of cyanobacteria.
  Critical Reviews in Microbiology 2016
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