Dr. Nagaraju GP is a faculty member at the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Nagaraju obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D., both in biotechnology from Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. Dr. Nagaraju received his D.Sc. from Berhampur University in Berhampur, Odisha, India. Dr. Nagaraju’s research focuses on translational research in gastrointestinal malignancies. He has published over 70 research papers in highly respected international journals and has presented more than 50 abstracts at various national and international conferences. He is author and editor of several. Dr. Nagaraju is an editorial board member of several internationally recognized academic journals, and is an associate member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics research program at Winship Cancer Institute. He is a member of the Association of Scientists of Indian Origin in America (ASIOA), the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), the Science Advisory Board, The RNA Society and the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR).
Dr. Aramati BM Reddy is an Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. He obtained his Master’s in Biotechnology from SV University, Tirupati-India and Ph.D. from L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, University of Hyderabad, India. He received postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston-TX in epigenetics, inflammation, and metabolic disorders. Dr. Reddy’s lab research interests focus on understanding cell signaling and gene regulation in the pathophysiology of metabolic malignancies and glaucoma. His lab is also working on understanding the role of several candidate genes and their significance for the outflow pathway of the aqueous humor of the anterior segment of the eye and glaucoma pathology. He has published 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and four book chapters. In addition, he has co-edited three special issues for Hindawi publishers in the field of translational and health sciences. He is a life member for several societies and is currently an executive board member of the Indian society of cell biology.