About us

Jogeswar Gadi M.Sc., Ph.D.

CEO & Director

October 2021 to Present- CEO & Director, SMDRC, Visakhapatnam.

March 2021- September-2021- Worked as a Laboratory Specialist (Consultant)-RF-PATH project, FIND, NEW DELHI, INDIA

September 2020- November 2020 – Worked as Scientific consultant for Establishing Virology & Molecular Biology Laboratory (NABL accreditation) at NRIMS, Visakhapatnam

April 2020-August 2020- Worked as Scientist at ICMR VRDL laboratory, KGH, Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam – Involved in Covid-19 testing and tests about more than 50,000 covid-19 samples, also involved in scale up of testing and leading scientific team.

October 2016 to March 2020: CEO & Director, SMDRC, Visakhapatnam.

Professional Experience

Years of Experience	Designation	Role
September 2016 to Present:	CEO & Director, SMDRC, Visakhapatnam.	Trained and guided about 100 students for their Masters Internship project thesis (Which yields 200 marks / student).
September 2013 to September, 2016:	CSIR- Senior Research Associate (Assistant Professor-Grade)	CSIR- Senior Research Associate (Assistant Professor-Grade) at A.U.College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
March 2009 to March 2013:	Assistant Research Professor	Assistant Research Professor at Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
March 2007 to February 2009:	Teaching Assistant/Postdoctoral Fellow	Teaching Assistant/Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Anatomy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
March 2006 to February 2007:	DBT-Postdoctoral Fellow	DBT-Postdoctoral Fellow sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India at Center for cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad,
September, 2001- December, 2005 - (Ph.D.):	APNL- Project Fellow	APNL- Senior Research Fellow (SRF), CSIR- SRF
Editorial Board and Reviewer for the Journals:	Reviewer for the Journal Biomaterials from July 2008 (I.F. 7.8) Reviewer for the Journal Pharmaceutical Biology – September 2010 (I.F.1) Reviewer for the International Journal of Pharmaceutics – January 2011 (I.F. 2.9)	Reviewer for the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research- May 2011 (I.F 3.2) Editorial board member for the Journal Endocrinology & Metabolic Syndrome: Current Research – July 2011
Memberships in Scientific Societies:	Member for Korean Endocrine Society- 2015	American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) – 2011 Member for International Society of Endocrinology (ISE) -2010 Member for the Korean Endocrine Society (KES) since March 2009 Member for the Korean Anatomical Society - March 2007 Member for the Korean Research Foundation (KRF) since March 2008
Awards and Fellowships:	MOU with St.Joesphs College	MOU with St.Joesphs College for women, Visakhapatnam and Govt.College (Autonoumous), Rajamahendravaram in the field of Biotechnology for skill development to Degree Students - 2019.
	Elected as a BOS member	Elected as a BOS member (Industrial expert) to Department of Biotechnology, St.Josephs College for women, Visakhapatnam- 2018
	Invited Lecture	Invited Lecture at Dr. L. Bullayya P. G. College, Visakhapatnam on “Biotechnology Solutions”. 3 rd February 2017.
	Achieved Startup recognition	Achieved Startup recognition to the Shrijoshika Molecular Diagnostics and Research Centre, Visakhapatnam from Department of Industrial promotion and policy, Government of India, New Delhi (DIPP No. 3080) - 2016
	A.U. Research Forum Invited Lecture	A.U. Research Forum Invited Lecture at A.U.College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam- 2015
	Travel Grant Award	Travel Grant Award by Korean Endocrine Society (KES) –Seoul, South Korea- SICEM-2015
	Excellent Oral Presentation Award	Excellent Oral Presentation Award by Korean Endocrine Society (KES) – SICEM-2015
	CSIR-SRA	CSIR-SRA (Pool Scientist) Fellowship – 2013
	Best oral presentation award	Best oral presentation award, Korean Endocrine Society (KES) -2011
	ISE Travel Grant Award	ISE Travel Grant Award from Korean Endocrine Society (KES)-2011
	ISE Travel Grant Award	ISE Travel Grant Award from International Society of Endocrinology (ISE) - 2010
	University	The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom presented in Kyoto, Japan.
	Young Scientist Referee Award	Young Scientist Referee Award –Biomaterials from Journal of Biomaterials, Elsevier- 2008
	DBT-Postdoctoral Fellowship	DBT-Postdoctoral Fellowship- Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India - 2006
	CSIR- Senior Research Fellowship	CSIR- Senior Research Fellowship- Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, India -2004
	AP-NL- Junior Research Fellowship	AP-NL- Junior Research Fellowship- By Govt. of Andhra Pradesh & Netherlands- 2001
Countries visited:	South Korea -2015	South Korea -2015 – Attended SICEM-2015 meeting and received Travel Grant Award and Excellent Oral Presentation Award.
	USA -2011	USA -2011- Attended and presented my research work in the international conference organized by American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR),USA, sponsored by Institute of Endocrinology, Yonsei University.
	Japan -2010	Japan -2010- Attended and presented my research work in international conference organized by International Society of Endocrinology (ISE), UK, sponsored by ISE, Birmingham, UK. March 26- 30.
	South Korea (2007-2013)	South Korea (2007-2013) – Worked in Korea. Presented research work in several national and international conferences organized in Republic of Korea.

TOTAL NUMBER OF Research Publications (International & National): 20 & 2 =22 CONFERENCE PRSENTATIONS: 25 NCBI Gene Bank Submissions: 4

Dr.Kalyani M.Sc., PhD.

Dr.Kalyani
CEO
M.Sc., PhD
Director, SMDRC

Professional Experience (8 -9 years):

Years of Experience	Designation	Role
September 2017 to Present:	Scientist & Consultant	September 2017 to Present: Scientist & Consultant Molecular Biologist, Shrijoshika Molecular Diagnostics and Research Centre, Ramangar, Viskhapatnam.
September, 2014 to September, 2017:	Principal Investigator	September, 2014 to September, 2017: Principal Investigator, DST-Women Scientist “A”, at Department of Human Genetics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
March, 2008 – February, 2012	Research fellowship	March, 2008 – February, 2012- Brain Korea21 (BK-21) Research fellowship (Korean Govt. Fellowship)
Memberships of Scientific Societies:	Member for the Korean Anatomy Society - 2008 - 2012	Member for the Network Academy of Sciences (NYAS) – 2008 - 2009 Member for the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) 2010-2011
Contries visited:	South Korea; (2008-2012) for pursuing Ph.D in Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. United States (USA); (2008) for presentation in the conference by New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), Boston, USA.	Spain; (2010) for presentation in the conference organized by European Molecular Biologists (EMBO), Barcelona.
Technical Experience: (2008-2012 as a Ph.D. student):	Molecular Biology- DNA-Genomic DNA isolation.	Gene Cloning techniques: Primer Design, PCR, Restriction analysis, Ligation, Plasmid isolation, transformation. RNA- RNA isolation, RT-PCR, Real time PCR (qRT- PCR- Rotor Gene Q- 5 HRM Quaigen)
	Protein- Protein Engineering, Cloning and over-expression of proteins in mammalian / eukaryotic cells (transfection and expression in F9, MC3T3-E1, C3H10T1/2 and NIH3T3 cells)	Establishing stable cell lines for over expression of eukaryotic proteins, Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), Co-Immuno Precipitation, SDS-PAGE, Western blotting, Gene promoter cloning, analysis and reporter assays, Enzyme assays etc
	Cell biology- Cytogenetic Techniques, Animal cell culture techniques- Gene Knockdown studies by siRNA transfection, Mammalian cell culture, transfection and expression studies, Cytotoxicity assay, cell proliferation assay, Transcription and gene regulation studies.	Establishing stable cell lines and screening colonies, Immmunostaining, Fluorescent microscopy, Confocal Microscopy (Carlzeiss-LSM-700), FACS analysis, Bacterial cell culture techniques etc.
	Animal studies- Mouse experiments	Handling and dissection, tissue harvesting, Homogenization and primary cell culture etc.
	In Silico analysis- UCSC genome browser.	Gene Expression Omnibus (NCBI-GEO) database for analysis of gene expression microarray to identify novel genes in specific disease condition and rVista sequence analysis for target promoter binding sites, Primer design etc.
Training obtained: (2006-2007)	Training obtained on “Hands on experience in Molecular Biology Techniques and Cell culture” at Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad under the guidance of Prof.P.B.Kavi Kishor.	Training
Awards and fellowships:	Brain Korea21 (BK-21) fellowship (Korean Govt. Fellowship) – 2008 to 2012 .Best poster presentation award, The 14 th Annual meeting of the Korean Society for Biomedical laboratory Sciences-2008	Travel grant Award from the BK-21 to attend the international conference (NYAS) held in USA (2008)
Travel grant Award	Award Travel grant Award from the BK-21 to attend the international conference (EMBO) held in Spain (2010)DST –Women Scientist ‘A’ from Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi	worker at Department of Human Genetics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India (2014-2017).

TOTAL NUMBER OF Research Publications (International): 4 CONFERENCE PRSENTATIONS: 17