K Sony Reddy
School of Computer Engineering
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K Sony Reddy

Associate Professor

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K. Sony Reddy joined as an Assistant Professor at School of Biotechnology of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology on January 2016; and has been involved in teaching Immunology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry to Masters students. He has worked on developing blood-stage malaria vaccine during his PhD tenure at ICGEB, New Delhi; after which he got selected for the INSPIRE Faculty program by DST, Govt of India. His lab is interested to gain a detailed understanding of the molecular processes that are essential for survival of the malarial parasite inside the human erythrocyte and develop new antimalarial drug(s)/drug strategies to counter anti-malarial drug resistance. His lab uses immunological, biochemical, histochemical, microscopy, metabolomic and proteomics techniques to pursue their research goals.

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Educational Qualifications

PhD

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Awards and Achievements

  1. Awarded with “INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2022” from Indian National Science Academy.
  2. Special Invitee to the Award ceremony of Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FINE) 2023, held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the august presence of the Hon’ble President of India, as well as a panellist to the round table conference.
  3. INSPIRE Faculty Awardee by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India on 2015.
  4. Awarded Best Oral Presentation Award at “Parasitology-2015”, held in JNU, New Delhi, India.
  5. Awarded Best Poster at “Bioepoch-2015”, held in JNU, New Delhi, India.
  6. Awarded Best Poster (First Prize) at “Parasitology-2014”, held in JNU, New Delhi, India.
  7. International Travel Support (ITS) from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), to present at “Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Cell Biology of Malaria” held in Italy, 2013.
  8. Qualified Junior Research Fellowship (2009) from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India to pursue a Ph.D. degree in India.
  9. Qualified Junior Research Fellowship (2009) conducted by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India.
  10. Selected in National qualifying examination conducted by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) for Masters in Biotechnology. Recipient of DBT scholarship during Masters in Biotechnology.
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Projects and Collaborations

  1. Identification and functional characterization of novel P. falciparum exported proteins (DST-INSPIRE; 2016-2021; INR 97,00,000). Role- PI
  2. Role of PEXEL positive P. falciparum Hsp40 proteins in parasite protein trafficking and host cell remodelling inside the host erythrocyte (DST-SERB Early Career Award, 2016-2019, INR 42,00,000). Role- PI
  3. Validate the efficacy of traditional herbal healing produce as anti-malarial (DST-National Innovation Foundation, 2019-2020, INR 10,80,000). Role- PI
  4. Decrypting the functional role of the human erythrocyte HSP70 chaperones (HSPA1 and HSPA8) in intraerythrocytic development of Plasmodium falciparum. (DST-SERB Core Research Grant, 2022-2025, INR 39,00,000). Role- PI
  5. Role of Estrogen Related Receptor (ERR-α) on the self-renewal of breast cancer stem cells and its implications in chemoresistance. (ICMR-EMR, 2021-2024, INR 53,00,000). Role- Co-PI.
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