Journal of Pharmacogenomics & Pharmacoproteomics

Krishna Kumar Dhakchinamoorthi

Krishna Kumar Dhakchinamoorthi
Krishna Kumar Dhakchinamoorthi Senior Research Fellow Department of Pharmacology Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research
India

Biography

Dr. Krishna Kumar Dhakchinamoorthi has completed his PhD in Medical Pharmacology in Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India. A pharmacist in foundation, he has received his post-graduation (M.Pharm) in clinical pharmacy at Dr. M.G.R Medical University, Chennai, India in 2007. He has joined as pharmacovigilance officer in regional Pharmacovigilance Centre, under CDSCO, Department of Pharmacology, JIPMER, Pondicherry in June 2007. Later he joined as senior research fellow in Pharmacogenomics lab in the same department. He has received scholarship from Indian council of medical research, New Delhi, India and also Indo-French collaborative project and received training programmes and expertise in adverse drug reactions monitoring, drug information services, genetic epidemiological methods, molecular boiology & SNaPshot techniques, various statistical methods. In January 2012 he has acquired specialized overseas training at INSERM U-775 –Bases Moléculaires de la réponse aux xénobiotiques, University Paris Sorbonne Cité, Paris & Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Department of Biochemistry, Paris, France. His research areas of expertise include cardiovascular pharmacology and therapeutics, Pharmacogenetics & Pharmacogenomics, Pharmacovigilance, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Pharmacokinetics, Population Pharmacokinetics studies. Besides, he has contributed considerably with his research publication in pharmacogenomics research specific to South Indian population. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Journal of Cardiology Research & Therapy and & expert Reviewers for journals like Journal of Young Pharmacists, Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics, Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, Pediatric drugs, Clinical Pharmacokinetics Clinical Drug Investigation, Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, Drug Safety, American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs and Patient–Centered Outcomes Research, He is a member of Indian Pharmacological Society, Pharmacy council of India and Society of Italo-Latin American Ethnomedicine (SILAE).

Research Interest

His research areas of expertise include cardiovascular pharmacology and therapeutics, Pharmacogenetics & Pharmacogenomics, Pharmacovigilance, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Pharmacokinetics, Population Pharmacokinetics studies.