Department
Biosciences
Designation
Asst. Professor
Qualifications
M.Sc.
Telephone
+91 8555 287235
Sri P Sujith Kumar is a Teaching Assistant at the Dept. of Biosciences from 2007 to date. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the area of Disease Biology under Dr. S Venketesh. He is working on the mechanistic and system Biology approach towards Glaucoma, an eye disease.
He graduated from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning in 2001 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biosciences and an M.Sc. in Biosciences in 2003. He was then involved in a short project for a year at the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore under the supervision of Prof. Manjunath, an eminent Immunologist.
Areas of Teaching
Invertebrate and Vertebrate Zoology, Immunology, Molecular cell Biology
Research Interests
Mechanisms in Glaucoma, Novel Biomarker involved in the exfoliation syndrome to Exfoliation Glaucoma, Multi modal approach in elucidating the mechanism of Glaucoma