Paper Accepted
  • Brijesh Lohchania, Abisha Crystal Christopher, Porkizhi Arjunan, Gokulnath Mahalingam, Durga Kathirvelu, Aishwarya Prasannan, Vigneshwaran Venkatesan, Pankaj Taneja, Mohan Kumar KM, Saravanabhavan Thangavel and Srujan Marepally. Diosgenin enhances liposome-enabled nucleic acid delivery and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing by modulating endocytic pathways. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology-Preclinical cell and Gene Therapy.
  • Gokulnath Mahalingam, Yogapriya Periyasami, Porkizhi Arjunan, Rajesh Kumar Subaschandrabose, Tamil Venthan Mathivanan, Roshlin Susan Mathew, Ramya Devi KT, Prasanna Samuel Premkumar, Jayaprakash Muliyil, Alok Srivastava, Mahesh Moorthy*, Srujan Marepally* Omicron infection increases IgG binding to spike protein of predecessor variants. Journal of Medical Virology.
  • Anila George, Nithin Sam Ravi, Kirti Prasad, Lokesh Panigrahi, Sanya Koikkara, Vignesh Rajendiran, Nivedhitha Devaraju, Joshua Paul, Aswin A. Pai1, Yukio Nakamura, Ryo Kurita, Poonkuzhali Balasubramanian, Saravanabhavan Thangavel, Srujan Marepally, Shaji RV, Alok Srivastava, and Mohankumar K. Murugesan. Efficient and error-free correction of sickle mutation in human erythroid cells using Prime Editor-2. Front. Genome Ed. Sec. Genome Editing in Blood Disorders. doi: 10.3389/fgeed.2022.1085111
Invited talk
  • Delivered a talk on “Biotech Future: Cell & Gene Therapy” at the Bengaluru Tech Summit 2022, Bengaluru on 18th November 2022
    Topic: "Emerging gene therapy approaches for the treatment of non-malignant haematological disorders”. (Mohankumar K. Murugesan)
  • Delivered a lecture on " career in science" on December 12, 2022 at Vellammal bodhi campus, Vellore (Saravanabhavan Thangavel)
Award detail

Name of the awardee: Dr Mohankumar K M
Name of the award: Ben Barres Spotlight Awards, eLife community (https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/6794cd8a/ben-barres-spotlight-awards-announcing-the-winners-for-2022)
Date of communication: 24-11-2022