Dr. Srikant A.

Academic Qualifications

• PhD in Applied Biology (Cancer Genomics) University of Mumbai
• MSc Bio-technology, University of Mysore
• BSc Biochemistry, Chemistry, Botany, Nagpur University

Professional Record

• Post-doctoral Research Associate, MRC-Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK,September 2016- September 2018
• Post-doctoral Fellow, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, July 2012- September 2016

Honors

• Gold medal from the University of Mysore for securing highest marks in MSc Bio-technology 2004, Mysore, India
• Best outgoing student of St. Francis de Sales College, 2002 Nagpur, India

Awards

• Sam Mistry Travel award to attend the Institute of Cancer Research centenary conference cancer genes: discovery and exploitation 2009, London, UK

Area of Interest

• Molecular epidemiology of chronic diseases

Fellowships

• Ramalingaswami Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India (2018)
• IARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Lyon, France partially supported by the EC FP7 Marie Curie Actions- People- Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND, 2012)
• Junior Research Fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, 2005)
• Junior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR, 2005)
• Junior Research Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT, 2004)
• NET Lectureship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, 2003)

Membership

• Life member- The Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR)
• Life member- The Indian Society of Human Genetics (ISHG)

On-going Projects

• 1. Delineating the role of DNA methylation in insulin resistance driven breast cancer development and progression (Funded by Ramalingswami Fellowship, DBT)
• 2. Triaging high-risk HPV-positive women for cervical cancer screening in tribal populations from Kerala: a feasibility study (Funded by Intramural Grant of SCTIMST)

Select Publications

• Publications can be found at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Ambatipudi+Srikant&sort=date