List of Staff & Students who have obtained their Ph.D Degree
| Sr. No. | Candidate Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor Name | Awarded on | Department | University |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Alamelu Raja | Modulation of host immune response in individuals with Bancroftian filariasis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | June 1985 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 2 | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | Studies on the influence of environmental mycobacteria on the immune response in humans and experimental animals | Dr. C.N. Paramasivan | January 1986 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 3 | Dr. Rajiswamy | Lymphocyte and macrophage functions in human tuberculosis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | March 1988 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 4 | Dr. C.R. Vanamala | Studies on cellular and humoral immune responses in Bancroftian filariasis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | April 1988 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 5 | Dr. Thilakavathi Subramaniam | Sociological study on tuberculosis of spine | Dr. S.P Tripathy | 1989 | Social Work | University of Madras |
| 6 | Dr. Geetha Ramani Shanmugam | Socio economic profile of tuberculosis patients | Dr. S.P Tripathy | 1989 | Social Work | University of Madras |
| Sr. No. | Candidate Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor Name | Awarded on | Department | University |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Sivadasan | Acute respiratory infection | Dr. C.N. Paramasivan | 1990 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 2 | Dr. P. Venkatesan | A study on survival models and their biomedical applications | Dr. K. Viswanathan, Reader, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of Madras, Chennai | 1990 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 3 | Dr. Kanakalata | Production and characterization of monoclonal antibody against animal filaria and their application for detection of antigen in human filarial gene | Dr. Ramesh S. Paranjape | December 1990 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 4 | Dr. V.K. Vijayan | Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia | Dr. R. Prabhakar | 1991 | Cardio Pulmonary Medicine Unit | University of Madras |
| 5 | Dr. K.V. Kuppu Rao | Calcium efflux from heart muscles | Dr. Krishna Bai Krishnasamy, Prof. of Physiology, Madras Medical College, Chennai | 1991 | Cardio Pulmonary Medicine Unit | University of Madras |
| 6 | Dr. N. Venkataprasad | Immunological functions of alveolar macrophages in pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | January 1992 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 7 | Dr. Daniel Herbert | Antigenic cross-reactivity in mycobacteria and its relevance to immune response in experimental systems and in humans | Dr. R. Prabhakar | April 1992 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 8 | Dr. M. Kannapiran | Biochemical and immunological functions of macrophages in experimental mycobacterial infections in mice | Dr. Raghupati Sarma | August 1992 | Biochemistry | University of Madras |
| 9 | Dr. V. Kumaraswami | Clinical and immunological aspects of eosinophilia in relation to lymphatic filariasis and the influence of anti-filarial drugs on the parasite eosinophil relationship | Dr. K.V. Thiruvengadam | June 1994 | Clinic | University of Madras |
| 10 | Dr. B. Raghu | Iron metabolism in M. tuberculosis | Dr. Raghupati Sarma | 1995 | Biochemistry | University of Madras |
| 11 | Dr. T. Kamala | Non-tuberculous mycobacteria in the environment of the south Indian BCG trial area | Dr. C.N. Paramasivan | 1995 | Bacteriology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 12 | Dr. N.S. Rajeswari | Clinical and CT-scan assessment of neurological recovery in brain tuberculoma and Pott's paraplegia | Dr. R. Prabhakar | February 1995 | Clinic | University of Madras |
| 13 | Dr. Aparna Rao | Generation and screening of a gt11 expression library of the M. tuberculosis (south Indian clinical isolate) genomic DNA with affinity purified antibodies from human TB sera and hyper immune rabbit serum | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | July 1995 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 14 | Dr. V. Vishwanath | Studies on cell mediated immunity in tuberculosis â Fate of M. tuberculosis inside activated monocytes | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | 1996 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 15 | Dr. R. Sahadevan | Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis specific DNA probes for diagnosis and DNA fingerprinting | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | November 1996 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 16 | Dr. K. Jayasankar | Studies on the biochemical and histochemical changes relating to fibrosis following infection with M. tuberculosis | Dr. V.D. Ramanathan | 1998 | Biochemistry | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 17 | Dr. H. Uma | Studies on the influence of human leucocyte antigens (HLA-DR and -DQ) on immune responses in pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | January 1998 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 18 | Dr. H. Shakila | Immunopathological studies of naturally occurring and experimental dermal granuloma induced by M. tuberculosis | Dr. V.D. Ramanathan | March 1998 | Pathology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 19 | Dr. R. Sattanathan (external candidate) | A study on generalised additive models and their applications | Dr. P. Venkatesan | April 1998 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 20 | Dr. K.S. Senthil Kumar | Purification of mycobacterial antigens and production of monoclonal antibodies to M. tuberculosis | Dr. Alamelu Raja | July 1998 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 21 | Dr. Geetha Ramachandran | Studies of cytochrome-P450 in relation to drug resistance in mycobacteria | Dr. Prema Gurumurthy | November 1999 | Biochemistry | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 22 | Dr. S.K. Vasan | Isolation and characterization of mycobacterial promoters: cloning and molecular studies of the guaA gene encoding GMP synthetase of M. tuberculosis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | November 1999 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| Sr. No. | Candidate Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor Name | Awarded on | Department | University |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. S. Arvindh Pradheep | Cloning, sequencing and expression studies of the ace A gene encoding isocitrate lyase from M. tuberculosis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | January 2000 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 2 | Dr. Nirmala Raman | Role of natural killer cells in tuberculosis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | March 2000 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 3 | Dr. V. Chandrasekaran | Repeated measures in clinical trials: analysis using summary statistics and its applications | Guide: Dr. G. Gopal, Univ. of Madras and Co-Guide: Dr. B N Murthy, IRMS | March 2001 | Epid. Statistics | University of Madras |
| 4 | Dr. A.K. Hemanth Kumar | Biochemical and pharmacological aspects of Ofloxacin in relation to tuberculosis | Dr. Prema Gurumurthy | April 2001 | Biochemistry | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 5 | Dr. K.R. Uma Devi | Purification and evaluation of 38, 30 and 16 kDa antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for rapid diagnosis | Dr. Alamelu Raja | January 2002 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 6 | Dr. G. Kubendiran | Evaluation of the activity of anti-tuberculosis drugs and the drugs that act on dormant tubercle bacilli under in vitro and in vivo conditions | Dr. C.N. Paramasivan | February 2002 | Bacteriology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 7 | Dr. Luke Elizabeth Hanna | Compartmentalization of immune responses in lymphatic filariasis & tuberculosis lymphadenitis | Dr. R. Prabhakar | May 2002 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 8 | Dr. Sunil Mathan Kurian | Studies on Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) and non-HLA gene polymorphisms on lymphocyte response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in spinal tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | October 2002 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 9 | Dr. Cheruvu Mani | Rapid identification of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis â development of a new tool and comparison with other methods | Dr. N. Selvakumar | October 2002 | Bacteriology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 10 | Dr. S. Selvakumar | Molecular studies on the regulatory elements of highly inducible acetamidase gene of Mycobacterium smegmatis | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | April 2003 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 11 | Dr. P. Vijayalakshmi | Early diagnosis of tuberculosis using molecular methods and cloning and expression of oxy-R gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | April 2003 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 12 | Dr. Daisy Vanitha | Characterization of non-tuberculous mycobacteria isolated from south Indian BCG trial area and their role in immune response in murine tuberculosis | Dr. C.N. Paramasivan | August 2003 | Bacteriology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 13 | Dr. S. Anitha | A study on statistical modeling of artificial neural networks | Dr. P. Venkatesan | August 2003 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 14 | Dr. V. Kamalakannan | Transcriptional analysis of guanosine monophosphate synthase (guaA) gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | August 2003 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 15 | Dr. B. Ramalingam | Cloning, expression, purification and characterization of 27 kDa (MPT51, Rv3803c) protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Dr. Alamelu Raja | September 2003 | Immunology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 16 | Dr. R. Ravanan (external candidate) | Statistical modelling of HIV/AIDS epidemic: A back calculation approach | Dr. P. Venkatesan | August 2004 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 17 | Dr. M. Muniyandi | Economic and health studies of TB patients registered under RNTCP | Dr. G. Rama Rao, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai | May 2005 | Clinic | International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai |
| 18 | Dr. G. Chandra | Studies on the influence of vitamin D3, and the polymorphic variants of vitamin D receptor gene on the immune functions to Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | June 2005 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 19 | Dr. V. Aravindhan | Construction of recombinant BCG based HIV-1 epitope delivery system | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | November 2005 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 20 | Dr. Sulochana Somasundaram | In vitro studies of quinolones against M. tuberculosis | Dr. C.N. Paramasivan | November 2005 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 21 | Dr. S. Srimathi (external candidate) | Characterization of homologous series of microbial a-amylases and their neoglysosylated analogs | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | June 2006 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 22 | Dr. G. Radha | Molecular studies on PknI, a Eukaryotic-like Serine/Threonine Protein Kinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | September 2006 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 23 | Dr. A. Sumathy (external candidate) | Biochemical and pharmacological studies in patients with diabetes and diabetes and tuberculosis | Dr. Prema Gurumurthy | January 2007 | Biochemistry | University of Madras |
| 24 | Dr. Deepak Jayakumar | Functional Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv with focus on PknE, a serine/threonine kinase | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | February 2007 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 25 | Dr. L. Prabakaran | Isolation and characterization of mycobacteriophages and construction of luciferase reporter phage for diagnosis of tuberculosis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | March 2007 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 26 | Dr. S. Vijayalatha (external candidate) | Biochemical and pharmacological studies with the fruits of piper longum in relation to tuberculous disease | Dr. Prema Gurumurthy | March 2007 | Biochemistry | University of Madras |
| 27 | Dr. P.G. Gopi | Impact of DOTS on some of the epidemiological parameters of tuberculosis over a period in a selected district of Tamil Nadu. | Dr. B.N. Murthy, ICMR-NIE, Chennai | January 2008 | Epid. Statistics | University of Madras |
| 28 | Dr. C. Prabha | Immune response in tuberculous pleuritis | Dr. D. Sulochana | February 2008 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 29 | Dr. G. Shenbagavalli | Serum and tissue complement profile in tuberculosis | Dr. V.D. Ramanathan | April 2008 | Pathology | University of Madras |
| 30 | Dr. V. Narayana Rao | Interaction of gene-disrupted Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains with human complement system | Dr. V.D. Ramanathan | August 2008 | Pathology | University of Madras |
| 31 | Dr. M. Gomathi | Studies on sputum microscopy for detection of acid fast bacilli | Dr. N. Selvakumar | August 2008 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 32 | Dr. K. Chandrasekaran (Madurai) | Some contribution to disease mapping and spatial modelling of TB data | Prof. G. Arivarignan, Prof. of Statistics, Madurai Kamaraj Univ., Madurai | September 2008 | Statistics | Madurai Kamaraj University |
| 33 | Dr. M. Vidya Rani | Regulatory role of variant genotypes of Vitamin D receptor gene on Vitamin D3 modulated cytokine and Granzyme-A response in pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | October 2008 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 34 | Dr. R. Priya | Human monocyte and macrophage apoptosis induced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and its implication on cell mediated immune response | Dr. D. Sulochana | October 2008 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 35 | Dr. P. Supriya | Chemokines and their cognate receptors in tuberculous immunity with special focus on pleural mesothelial cells | Dr. D. Sulochana | November 2008 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 36 | Dr. Nisha Rajeswari | Influence of HLA-DRB1 alleles on macrophage phagocytosis, cytokine response and perforin positive cells in pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | November 2008 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 37 | Dr. S. Manivannan | The role of complement activation and antibody in the interaction between Mycobacterium tuberculosis and human mononuclear cell | Dr. V.D. Ramanathan | February 2009 | Pathology | University of Madras |
| 38 | Dr. S. Porchelvan (external candidate) | Estimating size of HIV epidemic | Dr. P. Venkatesan | February 2009 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 39 | Dr.C. Dharuman (external candidate) | Pattern recognition methods for fourier transform infrared spectral data | Dr. P. Venkatesan | April 2009 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 40 | Dr. Kaustuv Nayak | Characterization of cellular immune responses in HIV-1 positive individuals with and without pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | July 2009 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 41 | Dr.C. Ponnuraja | Survival models for clinical trials with treatment-patient interactions | Dr. P. Venkatesan | September 2009 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| Sr. No. | Candidate Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor Name | Awarded on | Department | University |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Harini Laxminarayan | Cloning, expression and functional characterization of a serine/threonine protein kinase, PknL, from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | January 2010 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 2 | Dr. Nusrath Unnissa | Molecular studies on isoniazid resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Dr. N. Selvakumar | January 2010 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 3 | Dr. P.L. Nataraian | MAP kinase signalling in tuberculosis | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | January 2010 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 4 | Dr. S. Lakshmi | Molecular characterization of anti-retroviral drug-resistant mutations among HIV-1 infected adults and children in south India | Dr. P.R. Narayanan | April 2010 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 5 | Dr. D. Anbarasu | Identification of human T-cell antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by immuno-proteomics | Dr. Alamelu Raja | May 2010 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 6 | Dr. P. Rajashree | Maturation and function of dendritic cells during M. tuberculosis infection â defensive or offensive to the host | Dr. D. Sulochana | June 2010 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 7 | Dr. S. Prabhu Anand | Studies on plasma vitamin D3 level and the modulatory effect of vitamin D3 on vitamin D receptor expression, matrix metalloproteinase production and intracellular cytokine positive T-cell subsets in pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | June 2010 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 8 | Dr. K. Alagarasu | Studies on mannose binding lectin, CD209 vitamin D Receptor gene polymorphisms in south Indian HIV-1 infected patients with and without tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | June 2010 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 9 | Dr. P.V. Ramana Rao | Natural killer cell response in human immunodeficiency virus associated pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. Alamelu Raja | July 2010 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 10 | Dr. K. Ramakrishnan | A study on epidemiology of co-existing infections and health status of TB patients in Madurai region | Dr. R. Shenbagarathai, Prof. & Head, PG and Research Dept. of Zoology and Biotechnology, Lady Doak College, Madurai | August 2010 | Bacteriology | Madurai Kamaraj University |
| 11 | Dr. Mohanarani Suhadev | Knowledge, burden, coping and social support of the wives of HIV infected men in India | Dr. Udaya Mahadevan, Reader in Social Work, Loyola College, Chennai | September 2010 | Social Work | University of Madras |
| 12 | Dr. N.S. Gomathi | Rapid detection and drug susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis : New phage constructs, optimal assay format, alternate sputum processing method and evaluation of TB diagnostic kits | Dr. Vanaja Kumar | November 2010 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 13 | Dr. S. Raghavan | Studies on Human Leucocyte Antigen -A, -B, -DRB1, -DQB1 and -DPB1 polymorphisms in south Indian HIV-1 infected patients with and without tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | November 2010 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 14 | Dr. M.L. Suresh (external candidate) | Disease classification and prediction using artificial neural networks | Dr. P. Venkatesan | January 2011 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 15 | Dr. S. Basirudeen | Role of interferon gamma release assay in the diagnosis of TB | Dr. Alamelu Raja | June 2011 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 16 | Dr. M. Madhan Kumar | Immune response to ESAT-6 and CFP-10 in M. tuberculosis infection | Dr. Alamelu Raja | July 2011 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 17 | Dr. V.N. Azger Dusthackeer | Luciferase reporter phages for rapid detection of dormant and active tubercle bacilli | Dr. Vanaja Kumar | July 2011 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 18 | Dr. G. Rama (external candidate) | Estimating and modeling cancer survival in registry based censored data | Dr. P. Venkatesan | August 2011 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 19 | Dr. S. Balaji | Bacteriophages and their lysins as alternative to antibiotics for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in liquid media | Dr. Vanaja Kumar | November 2011 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 20 | Dr. Aparna J Christy | Development of recombinant BCG based epitope vaccine candidates for tuberculosis | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | February 2012 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 21 | Dr. R. Rathinasabapati | Institutional repository of the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis | Dr. A. Amudavalli, Prof. & Head, Dept. of Library and Inf. Science, University of Madras, Chennai | March 2013 | Library Science | University of Madras |
| 22 | Dr. E. Thiruvalluvan | Gender inequalities in access to health during lifespan - a south Asian perspective | Dr. K.R. Murugan, Associate Prof., Centre for Women's Studies, Alagappa Univ., Karaikudi. | April 2013 | Social Work | Alagappa University, Karaikudi |
| 23 | Dr. M. Radhakrishnan | Isolation and characterization of pigmented anti-tuberculous compound from Streptomyces species isolated from rare ecosystem | Dr. Vanaja Kumar | April 2013 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 24 | Dr. P. Dinesh Kumar | Role of PknE, a serine/threonine protein kinase from M. tuberculosis in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | June 2013 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 25 | Dr. Neema Bourai | Characterization of a penicillin binding protein from M. tuberculosis and M. smegmatis mc 2 155 | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | July 2013 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 26 | Dr. M. Muthusamy (external candidate) | Screening of anti-tubercular activity of some medical plants from Western Ghats | Dr. Vanaja Kumar | September 2013 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 27 | Dr. N.R. Yamuna (external candidate) | Statistical pattern classification using decision trees | Dr. P. Venkatesan | October 2013 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 28 | Dr. D. Ramamurthy (external candidate) | Stochastic modeling of the spread of HIV/AIDS | Dr. P. Venkatesan | November 2013 | Statistics | University of Madras ' |
| 29 | Dr. Sameer Hassan | Codon usage analysis of mycobacteriophage genomes: development and evaluation of reporter phage constructs with codon optimized luciferase gene | Dr. Vanaja Kumar | January 2014 | Bioinformatics | University of Madras ' |
| 30 | Dr. P. Karthigeyan | History of medical and spiritual sciences of siddhas of Tamil Nadu | Dr. M. Sundara Raj, Research Co-ordinator, Tamil Nadu Archives & Historical Research (Retd.), Egmore, Chennai | January 2014 | Administration | University of Madras ' |
| 31 | Dr. R. Srinivasan | Bayesian spatial models for disease mapping of HIV and tuberculosis | Dr. P. Venkatesan | March 2014 | Statistics | University of Madras ' |
| 32 | Dr. S. Suba | Characterization of lipoproteins of M. tuberculosis | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | August 2014 | Immunology | University of Madras ' |
| 33 | Dr. N. Arunkumar | Causal modeling of treatment effects using propensity scores | Dr. P. Venkatesan | October 2014 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 34 | Dr. L. Sekar | Semi-parametric and competing risk models in the analysis of censored survival data | Dr. P. Venkatesan | October 2014 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 35 | Dr. Jagdish Chandra Bose | Computational identification of T-cell epitopes in the entire expressed genome of HIV-1 subtype C | Dr. Luke E Hanna | November 2014 | Bio-informatics | University of Madras |
| 36 | Dr. N. Amudha (external candidate) | Screening of selected medicinal plants and characterization of Andrographis paniculata against clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis | Dr. Vanaja Kumar | December 2014 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 37 | Dr. N. Pavan Kumar | Characterization of T-cell responses in pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis with or without other co-morbidities | Dr. Luke E Hanna | December 2014 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 38 | Dr. R. Anuradha | Characterization of immune responses in lymphatic filarial infection and disease | Dr. Luke E Hanna | February 2015 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 39 | Dr. V. Malini | Characterization of components of signal recognition particle pathway from M. tuberculosis H37Rv | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | February 2015 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 40 | Dr. M. Mullai (external candidate) | A study on self-organizing map neural networks in disease diagnosis and classification | Dr. P. Venkatesan | March 2015 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 41 | Dr. Brijendra Singh | Chemokine gene polymorphisms and chemokine expression in pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | April 2015 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 42 | Dr. K. Srinivasan | Role of M. tuberculosis PknI, a serine / threonine protein kinase and DacB2 a penicillin binding protein in the pathogenesis of TB | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | July 2015 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 43 | Dr. Muthu Vijayalakshmi | Fuzzy logic based novel approach for disease classification and prediction | Dr. P. Venkatesan | August 2015 | Statistics | Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli |
| 44 | Dr. R. Lakshmi | Drug resistance in ethinomide and its association with resistance towards isoniazid in M. tuberculosis | Dr. Vanaja Kumar | November 2015 | Bacteriology | University of Madras |
| 45 | Dr. S. Sivakumar | Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis from Tiruvallur, south India | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | March 2016 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 46 | Dr. M. Harishankar | Studies on the effect of 1,25-Diohydroxy-vitamin D3 on chemokine expression and the regulatory role of variant vitamin D receptor genotypes on vitamin D3 modulated chemokines in pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | June 2016 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 47 | Dr. K. Afsal | Effect of 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 on innate and adaptive immunity in pulmonary tuberculosis | Dr. P. Selvaraj | July 2016 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 48 | Dr. J. Nancy Hilda | Neutrophil mediated innate immune responses in tuberculosis | Dr. D. Sulochana | July 2016 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 49 | Dr. Jovvian George | Influence of helminth infections on the immune response to latent and active tuberculosis | Dr. Luke Elizabeth Hanna | October 2016 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 50 | Dr. M. Vasantha | A novel structural equations modeling approach for latent class analysis of TB and HIV diseases | Dr. P. Venkatesan | October 2016 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 51 | Dr. Maddineni Prabhavathi | Immuno proteomically identified human T-cell antigens of M. tb for differential diagnosis of latent TB infection and active TB disease | Dr. Alamelu Raja | February 2017 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 52 | Dr. Ahmed Kabir Refaya | Role of transcriptional regulators in the adaptation of M. tuberculosis | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | March 2017 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 53 | Dr. V. Arunkumar | Molecular characterization of protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions in mycobacteria | Dr. Sujatha Narayanan | March 2017 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 54 | Dr. D. Santhi | Novel subunit vaccine targets from M. tuberculosis | Dr. Alamelu Raja | April 2017 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 55 | Dr. A.S. Shainaba | Drug target identification for tuberculosis: Mycobacteriophage Che12 based approach | Dr. Vanaja Kumar | May 2017 | Bacteriolog | University of Madras |
| 56 | Dr. P. Balaji | Evaluation of antigen specific immune response for identification of M. tb infection | Dr. Alamelu Raja | October 2017 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 57 | Dr. S. Valarmathi (external candidate) | Statistical Methods for Evaluating Treatment Outcomes in the Presence of Competing Risks Time to Event Clinical Trial Data | Dr. C. Ponnuraja | March 2018 | Statistics | Bharathiar University |
| 58 | Dr. S. Santhi (external candidate) | Selection and Implementation of Sampling Procedures Indexed Through Acceptable Quality Level and Limiting Quality Level : A Zero Inflated Poisson Approach | Dr. C. Ponnuraja | March 2018 | Statistics | Bharathiar University |
| 59 | Dr. P. Pugazhvanthen | Immunoproteomic identification of B cell antigens of M. tb | Dr. Alamelu Raja | April 2018 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 60 | Dr. G. Akilandeswari | Biophysical and biochemical characterization of two DNA binding proteins (Rv3716c and Rv3405c) from M. tuberculosis | Dr. B. Ramalingam | March 2019 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 61 | Dr. Narayanaiah Cheedarla | Identification and characterization of neutralizing antibodies in clade âC' HIV-1 infected individuals | Dr. Luke Elizabeth Hanna | May 2019 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 62 | Dr. C.L. Babu (external candidate) | Evaluating Clinical Trials Healthcare Data Using Clustering and Classification Procedures- A Data Mining Approach | Dr. C. Ponnuraja | October 2019 | Statistics | Bharathiar University |
| Sr. No. | Candidate Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor Name | Awarded on | Department | University |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Ashokkumar Manickam | Genetic Identity and Unique biological phenotype of early transmitted/founder viruses in recent HIV-1 infection | Dr. Luke Elizabeth Hanna | January 2020 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 2 | Dr. Vidya Vijayan | Characterization of viral and host factors responsible for clinical differences seen in HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections | Dr. Luke Elizabeth Hanna | July 2020 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 3 | Dr. Sivasankaran Munusamy Ponnan | Evaluation of mucosal immune responses to HIV in HIV-exposed uninfected women | Dr. Luke Elizabeth Hanna | August 2020 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 4 | Dr. Hemalatha Babu | Inflammation and aging in HIV-1 infected individuals on long-term antiretroviral therapy | Dr. Luke Elizabeth Hanna | May 2022 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 5 | Dr. B. Sukumar | Machine Learning Based Novel Approaches for Modeling High Dimensional Biological Databases | Dr. P. Venkatesan | June 2022 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 6 | Dr. Y. Mary Rebecca | Pharmacokinetic drug-drug interactions between first line anti-TB drugs (Rifampicin, Isoniazid, Pyrazinamide and Ethambutol) and anti-diabetic drugs (Metformin and Sulphonly Ureas) | Dr. A.K. Hemanth Kumar | June 2022 | Clinical Pharmacology | The T.N. Dr MGR Medical University |
| 7 | Dr. Bharghavi Gunapati | Functional Characterization of Oxidoreductase Rv 0148 and alkylhydroperoxidase Rv2159 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Dr. P. Kannan | April 2023 | Immunology | University of Madras |
| 8 | Dr. R. Govindarajan (external candidate) | A study on reliability models and their applications | Dr. P. Venkatesan | March 2025 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 9 | Dr. R. Selvaraj | Epidemiology of statistics | Dr. G. Gopalan, Prof, Dept. of Statistics, University of Madras, Chennai | April 2025 | Epid. Statistics | University of Madras |
| 10 | Dr. Beena E. Thomas | Psychosocial and sexual impact of HIV/AIDS gender differentials | Dr. Shanmuga Velayutham, Reader, Dept. of Social Work, Loyola College, Chennai | May 2025 | Social Work | University of Madras |
| 11 | Dr. C. Nandakumar (external candidate) | Some contribution to the modelling of sero-conversion time of human immunodeficiency virus | Dr. P. Venkatesan | May 2025 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 12 | Dr. V. Selvaraj (external candidate) | Statistical modelling of correlated categorical data: A generalized estimating equation approach | Dr. P. Venkatesan | May 2025 | Statistics | University of Madras |
| 13 | Dr. V. Vallinayagam (external candidate) | A study on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods | Dr. P. Venkatesan (Joint guidance) | June 2025 | Statistics | University of Madras |
