PRIYA KUNHIRAMAN
Rockford,IL
Summary
Motivated graduate student with excellent academic credentials and highly skilled in various techniques. Willing to explore the realms of neuroscience and apply the knowledge in understanding various aspects in neurodegenerative disease.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Undergraduate Student Intern
Centre For Cellular And Molecular Biology
01.2023 - 07.2023
- Carried out studies to understand Oxidative stress induced by paraquat in Neural progenitor cells.
- Cultured neural stem cells and differentiated them into neurons.
- Optimized paraquat and drug concentration; performed toxicity studies by Calcein AM-PI staining, MTT and caspase assay.
Undergraduate Student Intern
Cancer Institute (WIA)
09.2022 - 10.2022
- Understood the principle behind various biochemistry analysis used in clinical laboratories.
- Performed glucose, urea, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, creatinine and SGPT levels in cancer patient samples using calorimetric method.
- Observed how routine biochemistry tests are performed in laboratories using CLIA.
Undergraduate Student Intern
TamilNadu Veterinary and Animal Science University
08.2021 - 11.2021
- Performed molecular biology techniques; PCR, cDNA synthesis, Agarose gel electrophoresis, RNA extraction(IBDV virus), DNA extraction, primer designing and mammalian cell culture.
Undergraduate Student Intern
Indian Institute Of Technology(IIT),Delhi
06.2021 - 08.2021
- Carried out project on Discovering orphan genes in Rhodococcus erythropolis using bioinformatics.
Undergraduate Student Intern
Xcellogen Biotech Pvt Ltd
04.2021 - 05.2021
- Carried out a project on Insilico validation of protein models of Amanita Phalloides.
- Used various bioinformatic tools for protein analysis.
Undergraduate Student Intern
Deepam Hospitals
11.2020 - 12.2020
- Learnt about Clinical Research, Protocol writing, GCP & Pharmacovigilance.
Education
Master of Science - Medical Biotechnology
University Of Illinois
Rockford, Illinois05.2025
Bachelor of Technology - Biotechnology
Bannari Amman Institute Of Technology
India04.2023
Secondary School - Physics, Chemistry, Biology,Maths
Crescent Castle Public School
India05.2019
Skills
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- SDS PAGE
- Gel electrophoresis
- PCR
- DNA Extraction
- RNA Extraction
- Fluorescence Microscopy
- Western Blot
- ELISA
- Immunocytochemistry
Websites
Certification
- Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020
- Standford Introduction To Food and Health
- Top 25 in Bio-hackathon'21-Series1' conducted by GeneBloc.ai.
Training
- Presented an idea titled 'Systemic formulation of probiotic candies with prebiotic encapsulation' in Recent Trends In Microbial And Molecular Techniques conducted by SRM university.
- Presented an idea titled 'Systemic formulation of probiotic candies with prebiotic encapsulation' in ICETB 2020 conducted by VIT, Vellore.
- Participated in a workshop on 'Hands on training on viral zoonoses' at TamilNadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University.
- Participated in Tamil Nadu Student Innovators (TNSI) Boot camp at Anna University, Coimbatore.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Malayalam
Native or Bilingual
Tamil
Limited Working
Timeline
Undergraduate Student Intern
Centre For Cellular And Molecular Biology
01.2023 - 07.2023
Undergraduate Student Intern
Cancer Institute (WIA)
09.2022 - 10.2022
Undergraduate Student Intern
TamilNadu Veterinary and Animal Science University
08.2021 - 11.2021
Undergraduate Student Intern
Indian Institute Of Technology(IIT),Delhi
06.2021 - 08.2021
Undergraduate Student Intern
Xcellogen Biotech Pvt Ltd
04.2021 - 05.2021
Undergraduate Student Intern
Deepam Hospitals
11.2020 - 12.2020
Master of Science - Medical Biotechnology
University Of Illinois
Bachelor of Technology - Biotechnology
Bannari Amman Institute Of Technology
Secondary School - Physics, Chemistry, Biology,Maths
Crescent Castle Public School
- Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020
- Standford Introduction To Food and Health
- Top 25 in Bio-hackathon'21-Series1' conducted by GeneBloc.ai.
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