Dr. D. Premnath Dhanaraj
Assistant Professor, Division of Biotechnology
Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Education:
B.Pharm.; M.Tech.; Ph.D.
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Dr. Premnath Dhanaraj, M.Tech., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor who joined the institution on 27/11/2007. He completed his B.Pharm. from Tamilnadu MGR (Govt) Medical University, India, in 2004, M.Tech. from SASTRA University in 2007, and Ph.D. from Karunya University in 2016. He completed his Postdoctoral research at the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 2018.
His teaching areas include Computational Biology, Instrumental Methods and Analysis, Biopharmaceutical Technology, Anatomy and Health Science, and Molecular Modelling and CADD. His research interests include computational biology and bioinformatics, medicinal chemistry, cheminformatics, complementary and alternative medicine, and pharmaceutical sciences.
His recent research publications focus on computational studies for T2R agonist-based anti-COVID-19 drug design, computational analysis of bacterial secondary metabolites against breast cancer, development of magnetic hydroxyapatite nanomaterial-based anticancer drug carriers, activation of chemosensory bitter taste receptors by antibiotics, and comparative metagenomic analysis of HPV strains for antiviral drug development.
Dr. Premnath Dhanaraj has handled projects on the expression of GPCRs for clinical diagnostics and the in-silico design, chemical synthesis and characterization of 4-amino antipyrine derivatives as potential anti-human papillomavirus agents. He is associated with the Pharmacy Council of India, Centre of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research (CEGMR), and the International Association of Engineers (IAENG).