Vijayalakshmi Venkatesan
National Institute of Nutrition, India
Biography
Vijayalakshmi V has completed her PhD in Biochemistry (National Institute of Nutrition) awarded from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. She has pursued Postdoctorate from CCMB followed by induction as a Senior Faculty in Liver Research Centre at Hyderabad, India. In 2002, she was recruited as Assistant Director at National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR) and initiated the area of Stem Cell Research and she is currently Scientist F. She has more than 60 papers in peer reviewed journals and has been in the Advisory Board of several stem cell centers in India. She has also received the prestigious Biomedical Fellowship from Government of India to visit Karolinska Institute, Sweden.