MEJO Chiratteparambil Korah

• Working on developing vaccines against gonococcal disease using the Pilavx platform.
• Use various molecular biology techniques including cloning, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Western blot, flow cytometry, recombinant protein production, and purification systems.
• Laboratory management of summer students on various molecular biology techniques.

• Designing innovative formulations and conducting pre-formulation studies of pharmaceuticals/neutraceuticals.
• Conducted pre-clinical experiments in the laboratory environment for product development purposes.
• used various molecular biology and immunology experiments.
• Trained new employees on areas of technical expertise and compliance issues relevant to the lab setting.

Project Handled

• Pre-clinical evaluation and commercialization of anti-snake venom IgY; ant-hemotoxins and anti-neurotoxins (Funded by Department of science and technology, Government of India.
• Evaluation of the bioavailability and efficacy of human protein as delivery vehicle of Curcumin in animal models (Intramural project funded by Sree chitra tirunal institute for medical science and technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
• Handled pharmacokinetic-dynamic modeling, and saftey pharmacological studies using various animal models.
• Scientific writing as papers and patents were published/filed.

• Analysis of Patents (USA, EU and WO) and research articles of Drug invention and Pharmacological studies indexed to Elsevier and maintain the Database of the same.
• Preparation of summary report of scientific works including types of biological material, assay category, Clinical and Pharmacological findings and Potential New Use (PNU) of the drug of Invention.
• Data Verification and Freezing of data before sending the same to Client (Elsevier – Amsterdam, Frankfurt & Philippines).