Our Team


Prasanna Krishnamurthy, MVSc, PhD, FAHA
Principal Investigator


Project Theme: Molecular mechanisms of CVD

Sarojini Singh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Project Theme: Brain health and heart disease

Mallikarjun Patil, MVSc, PhD
Researcher IV

Project Theme: Exosome, RNA-binding protein, efferocytosis in cardiac homeostasis

Praveen Dubey, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Project Theme: OLA1 in cardiac remodeling and function

Shubham Dubey, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Project Theme: mRNA stability and tissue fibrosis


Previous Lab Members & Volunteers

John Henderson
PhD student (Graduated)
*AHA postdoctoral Fellowship Awardee

Dr. Darukeshwara Joladarashi
Postdoctoral Fellow
*AHA postdoctoral Fellowship Awardee

Dr. Rajarajan A Thandavarayan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
*AHA postdoctoral Fellowship Awardee

Hien Luong
Master’s Student, BME, UAB (Graduated)

Dr. Sahana Suresh Babu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Paras Ahuja
UAB SciTech Honors student

Phuong Quach
Research Assistant

Dr. Gopalkrishna Sreejit
Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Prince Jeyabal
Research Associate

Ms. Shashirekha K
Research Assistant

Prem K Govindappa, MVSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Saminathan Muthusamy
Researcher V

Sherin Saheera, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Gayathri Narasimhan, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Frank S Li
Undergrad, Summer Volunteer, Univ of Texas, Austin, TX

Divya Annamalai

SciTech Honors UG Student Volunteer, UAB, AL

Stephen Ferrell

Summer Volunteer, Birmingham, AL

Nicholas Hohnstein
Volunteer, Birmingham area School, AL