"Dr. Shankar received his BPharm from Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Tamilnadu (India) in 2001, a MSc (Pharmacology and Toxicology) from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (India) in 2001 and his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (USA) in 2008. He worked an Instructor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi. Prior to this, Dr. Shankar was a post-doctoral fellow at the same institution. He has also served as a Lecturer at Pallavan Pharmacy College (India). Dr. Shankar has published 7 peer-reviewed papers, 11 research abstracts, 11 research posters and has 14 oral research presentations to his credit. Over the past ten years, he has been active on various research projects involving whole organ, animal and cell culture models to understand the pathophysiological mechanisms in various disease states such as stroke, diabetes, and obesity. "

Diabetic Nephropathy, Obesity, Kidney, ER Stress, Renal Cell Carcinoma