Vinod Scaria

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Dr. Vinod Scaria
Born (1981-03-09) 9 March 1981
Mbinga, Tanzania
Residence Delhi, India
Nationality Indian
Fields Bioinformatics, Computational Biology
Institutions Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
Alma mater Calicut Medical College
University of Pune
Doctoral advisor Samir K. Brahmachari
Notable awards CSIR Young Scientist Award (2012)
Website
vinodscaria.rnabiology.org

Dr. Vinod Scaria (born 9th March 1981) is an Indian researcher specializing in micro-RNA and long noncoding RNA biology, who is best known for sequencing the first Indian genome.[1][2][3] He was also instrumental in the sequencing of The first Sri Lankan Genome, analysis of the first Malaysian Genome[4] and sequencing and analysis of the Wild-type strain of Zebrafish.[5] He was conferred the CSIR Young Scientist Award for biological sciences for developing computational tools to analyze genomic data, by the Prime Minister of India in September 2012.[6][7][8]

Early life

Vinod was born in, Tanzania in 1981. He did his schooling in Silver Hills Public School, Kozhikode, India. He studied for pre-degree course in St. Joseph's College, Devagiri and completed his undergraduate studies in medicine and surgery from Calicut Medical College with Gold Medals in Biochemistry and Physiology. He worked as a consultant for information technology at the Pain and Palliative Care society in Kozhikode. Later, he joined the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, where he started his career as a researcher.[9]

Research

Dr. Scaria started his research career at Calicut Medical College in the area of medical ethics and heath information on Internet. After joining the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in 2005, he switched to computational biology and genome informatics. His notable researches include the identification of human micro-RNA which can target HIV virus. In 2009 he and his colleagues at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology announced the sequencing of the wild-type strain of zebrafish[10] and the sequencing of the first Human Genome from India. He also pioneered the use of social web for genome annotation, through mapping of TB genome.[11] He and colleagues also discovered and designed enzyme silencers for mRNA, dubbed antagomiRzymes.His group also pioneered the use of social web, cloud computing and students for solving complex drug discovery problems for Neglected Diseases.[12] Dr Scaria has also been involved in popularising personal genomics through meragenome.com[13] and OpenPGx.[14]

He has published numerous papers in international journals.[15] He is also the Editorial Board member of many reputed International Journals.

References

  1. ↑ C.G, Manoj (10 December 2009). "After human genome sequence, the scientist duo look ahead". The Indian Express. Retrieved 10 February 2013. 
  2. ↑ G.N, Prasanth (10 December 2009). "Genome sequencing can be applied in clinical setting". Times of India. Retrieved 10 February 2013. 
  3. ↑ Jingjing, Han (9 December 2009). "Scientists decode human genome for the first time in India". China News. Retrieved 10 February 2013. 
  4. ↑ Salleh MZ, Teh LK, Lee LS, Ismet RI, Patowary A, et al. (2013) Systematic Pharmacogenomics Analysis of a Malay Whole Genome: Proof of Concept for Personalized Medicine. PLoS ONE 8(8): e71554. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071554
  5. ↑ Patowary A, Purkanti R, Singh M, Chauhan R,Singh AR, Swarnkar M, Singh N, Pandey V, Torroja C, Clark MD, Kocher J, Clark KJ, Stemple DL, Klee EW, Ekker SC*, Scaria V, Sivasubbu S. A sequence-based variation map of zebrafish. Zebrafish. 2013 Mar;10(1):15-20
  6. ↑ "Young Scientist Awards". CSIR, India. Retrieved 10 February 2013. 
  7. ↑ "PM gives away awards to scientists". MBCTV. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013. 
  8. ↑ "PM gives Swaroop Bhatnagar award to 11 scientists". Outlook.com. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013. 
  9. ↑ "Vinod Scaria's profile". Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. Retrieved 10 February 2013. 
  10. ↑ "Genome of Zebrafish Wild-type Strain(ASWT)". IGIB.in. Retrieved 17 April 2013. 
  11. ↑ "Detailed map of TB genome to help treatment". The Hindustan Times. 12 April 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2013. 
  12. ↑ "Crowd Computing for Cheminformatics". RNA Biology. Retrieved 17 February 2013. 
  13. ↑ "meragenome.com : Personal Genomics for All". Retrieved 10 April 2013. 
  14. ↑ "OpenPGx". Retrieved 10 April 2013. 
  15. ↑ "Publications of Vinod Scaria". RNA Biology. Retrieved 10 February 2013. 
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