Professor K. V. Venkatesh, Principal Investigator

Affiliations

Education

PhD, Purdue University, USA

B. Tech.,  IIT Madras

Dr. K. V. Venkatesh is a pioneer in the areas of Systems Biology, Network analysis and modeling, Synthetic Biology and Metabolic and regulatory networks research in India with more than a decade of experience.  He has more than a hundred peer reviewed publications, won several awards and has guided several doctoral, masters and bachelors theses. He has a vast experience in the field of systems biology particularly in the area of network quantification of signaling pathways, gene regulatory and metabolic networks.  He has contributed significantly to research in the areas of quantification of biological networks including genetic, signaling and metabolic pathways.  He has also contributed extensively towards the broad field of metabolic engineering and his group has developed steady state gene expression simulator, methods using elementary modes to quantify phenotypic space and complete whole-body metabolic model for humans. 

His contributions towards quantifying metabolic states to define a phenotype has been well received by biologists.  This has opened avenues to design, optimize and operate fermentative processes.  His work on insulin signaling pathway to characterize Type-II diabetes has been cited in Banting Lecture 2006 by Prof. Richard N. Bergman as reported in the journal (DIABETES, VOL.  56, JUNE 2007) as a future research direction in Disease modeling.  His research work has been accepted by the biologists and the results have been used to demonstrate the principles deciphered in his Lab in many biological systems, which is reflected in his citation in journals such as Nature, Nature Reviews, Nature Genetics, Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Biological Science and New Scientist.