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Dr Prathibha Pereira

HOD - Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE).
  • MBBS MD [General Medicine] KMC Mangalore
  • PGDCM In geriatrics [MALTA and IGNOUE]
  • Professor and HOD Dept. geriatrics, JSS MC, Mysuru
  • Added responsibilities: Head and Mentor Dept. of Quality.
  • Member Ethics committee JSSAHER
  • NABH assessor, Technical head for NABH EC accreditation
  • EC chairman Coorg dental college
  • Committee member of ICMR for review and revision of ethical guidelines.
  • Previous Posts: HOD Clinical research Manipal Hospital
  • Head Quality Implementation Manipal Group of Hospitals
  • Won awards and has many publication in national and international journals.

As a PI she has completed many clinical trials- drug and vaccine trials, she was CoI of ICMR and DBT Mission Covid Suraksha Projects. She has worked as PI in collaboration with Latrobe University, Australia Project. Core group of C20. s

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Dr M D Ravi

Chief Coordinator, Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE)

MD (Ped) graduated from Kasturba Medical College Manipal/Mangalore. He completed his MD in 1981. He was the best outgoing student in undergraduate group and secured a distinction in MD. He started his career in MS Ramiah

Medical College in 1981 and did a short stint abroad from 1989-96. He has been in JSS MC from 1996. He is Professor of Pediatrics. He has held many posts including Vice Principal JSSMC, Director JSS Hospital, Chairman Board of Studies and Chairman HICC JSS Hospital. He has been the guide for a number of pediatric postgraduate students, mentor for undergraduate students and guide for PhD students. He has completed several research projects and has ongoing projects as well. Dr Ravi has received many awards including Mysore Rathna, Best teacher award, Best Investigator award for vaccine trial etc. He is part of the first batch of DSMB fellows of Harvard University and has undergone multiple trainings from WHO in the field of Vaccinology. He is the head of the WHO AEFI (Adverse events following immunization) sentinel site ate JSS Hospital and Chief Coordinator of CDSA CCRE (Centre for development of scientific activity under Govt of India, Centre for clinical research excellence). His main interests are vaccinology and nutrition. He has published several papers in national and international journals, has given talks in innumerable conferences and training programs nationally and internationally and has completed more than a 15 clinical trials as Principal Investigator, mostly on vaccines.

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Dr. Vinaya Rani.G, MSC, MPhil, PhD

Clinical Research Associate, Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE)

Dr. Vinaya Rani. G has joined Centre of Clinical Research Excellence, a government of India CDSA sponsored Centre at JSS AHER as Clinical Research Investigator on Oct 2017 at JSS AHER.

She has 11 years of clinical research experience. She was the recipient of Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, Women Scientist-A Project in 2014. She has done PhD in Biotechnology from University of Mysore. She has several publications in peer reviewed national and international journals of repute, book chapters in textbook and also deposited Nucleotide Sequences of microbes (113 no’s) to National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and obtained accession numbers. Total 11 years of clinical research experience, she has worked in different positions such as CRC, CRA, Clinical research Investigator, Research Officer and Project Manager in Clinical Research Organizations (IQVIA) and Hospital settings. Worked in DBT, DST, WHO projects and also worked in collaboration with Latrobe University, Australia Project. She has completed more than 45 clinical trials at site level as Research officer/Project manager and coordinated with different audits and inspections from DCGI and Sponsors. Also currently working as Research Officer/Project manager in many Vaccines, device and medicine (drug) clinical trials. She has completed many trainings from govt and private sectors regarding Clinical Research and also attended several IM meetings and got trained for GCP (Investigator Meetings at- Poland, Prague, Malaysia, Hongkong, Delhi, Mussoorie). She strongly thrives for getting funded projects/ clinical trials and believes in advancing herself through quality research outputs. She is experienced in organizing workshops, trainings and conferences as an organizing secretary and also delivered many lectures on topics of ICH-GCP and clinical research. Thirteen workshops organized/worked as Organizing Secretary, Sponsored by JSSAHER and other government agencies (DBT, ICMR) and also participated as speaker. Recently she has been identified as one of the best “Best Women Scientist-A”, DST under DST WoS-A in Karnataka. She has worked as Project Manager in BIRAC- Mission covid Suraksha Project- 2021, Sponsored by Department of Biotechnology -DBT- New Delhi. Under this project more than 10 covid vaccine/drug trials were conducted at JSS Hospital in which she worked as Research officer, during Covid -19 pandemic.

Important Papers Published in National and International peer reviewed Journals

Papers Published

  • Vinayarani, G., Madhusudhan, K. N., & Prakash, H. S. 2019. Induction of systemic resistance in turmeric by rhizospheric isolate Trichoderma asperellum against rhizome rot disease. Journal of Plant Pathology, 1-16. Impact factor-0.94
  • Vinaya Rani. G, Prakash. H.S, 2018. Growth promoting rhizospheric and endophytic bacteria from Curcuma longa L. as biocontrol agents against rhizome rot and leaf blight diseases. The Plant Pathology Journal. Impact factor -1.25
  • Vinaya Rani. G, Prakash. H.S, 2018. Fungal endophytes of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) and their biocontrol potential against pathogens Pythium aphanidermatum and Rhizoctonia solani. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 34 (3), 49. Impact factor -2.1
  • G. Vinayarani, K.N. Madhusudhan, S.A. Deepak, S.R. Niranjana and H.S. Prakash, 2011. Detection of Mixed Infection of Tobamoviruses in Tomato and Bell Pepper by using RT-PCR and Duplex RT-PCR. International Journal of Plant Pathology, 2: 89-95.

Co-authored Papers

  • K.N. Madhusudhan, G. Vinayarani, S.A. Deepak, S.R. Niranjana, H.S. Prakash, G.P. Singh, A.K. Sinha and B.C. Prasad, 2011. Antiviral Activity of Plant Extracts and other Inducers against Tobamoviruses Infection in Bell Pepper and Tomato Plants. International Journal of Plant Pathology, 2: 35-42.
  • Umesha, S., Chandrasekhar, B., Shivakumara, P., Shiva Kumar, J., Raghava, S., Avinash, P., Shirin, M., Bharathi, T.R., Rajini, S.B., Nandhini, M. and Vinaya Rani, G., 2017. Aflatoxins and food pathogens: impact of biologically active aflatoxins and their control strategies. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 97(6), pp.1698-1707. Impact factor -2.4
  • Madhusudhan, K. N., Meghana P B, Vinaya Rani G., Moorthy. S M et al., (2017). Extraction And Characterization Of Chitin And Chitosan From Aspergillus Niger, Synthesis Of Silver-Chitosan Nanocomposites And Evaluation Of Their Antimicrobial Potential. JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY, 6(3), 939-945.

Book Chapter

  • Rasekaba, T. M., Pereira, P., Rani. G, V., Johnson, R., McKechnie, R., & Blackberry, I. (2022). Exploring Telehealth Readiness in a Resource Limited Setting: Digital and Health Literacy among Older People in Rural India (DAHLIA). Geriatrics, 7(2), 28.
  • Vinayarani, G., Madhusudhan, K. N., and Prakash, H. S. 2019. Diseases of turmeric and their management. Diseases of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and their Management. Pp. 24-46.

GENBANK DEPOSITIONS

90 Nucleotide Sequences of bacteria, fungi, viruses were deposited to National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Accession numbers were obtained.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Conferences/symposiums attended and presented poster and oral presentations:

Sl.No. Title of the conference/symposium Organised by Venue/ Poster/Oral Date/ year
1 Plant diseases: New perspectives and innovative management strategies University of Agriculture, Dharwad & Indian Phytopathological Society (South Zone) Department of plant pathology, College of Agriculture, University of Agriculture, Dharwad Poster 11-12th December, 2014
2 Biological products for crop, animal and human health- problems and prospects Dept of Biotechnology, University of Mysore & National Academy of Biological Sciences, Chennai Dept of Biotechnology, University of Mysore Poster 21-22nd August, 2015
3 103rd Indian Science Congress Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata University of Mysore, Mysuru Poster 03-07th January, 2016
4 International conference on science and technology: Future challengees and solutions (SCFCS 2019) Indian JSPS Alumni Association Vignana Bhavan, Manasagangotri, Mysore Poster 8-9th August, 2016
5 National symposium on Trends in Microbiology Department of microbiology University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysuru 12th May, 2017
6 International conference on Advances in Disease Management for Human welfare Gulbarga University Gulbarga University, Kalaburagi, Karnataka Poster 21-23rd November, 2017
7 Science and Technology Conference Karnataka Science and Technology Academy, Bengaluru JSS arts, commerce and Science college, Mysuru 24-25th November, 2017
8 National conference on Scientific advancements for sustainable development Global association of scientific young minds (GASYM) SDM mahila Maha Vidhyalaya, Mysuru Oral presentation 22-23rd, February 2018
9 National conference on Biodiversity and bioprospecting for suitable development-2018 (BBSD- 2018) Institution of Excellence Vignana Bhavan, Manasagangotri, Mysore Poster 23-24th February, 2018

Workshops attended

Sl. No. Title of the workshop Organised by Venue Date/year
1 Hands of scientific equipment (Batch-II)-IOE Institute of Excellence Vignana Bhavan, Manasagangotri, Mysore 10-12th September, 2014
2 Workshop on bioinformatics and its application in Biological Research Sub-Distributed information center, BTIS Net Central Sericultural Research and Traning Institute, Central silk board, Ministry of textiles, Mysuru 16-17th November, 2016
3 Favorable regulatory momentum for future clinical research Indian society for clinical research Bengaluru 18th November, 2017
4  9th Clinical Trial Summit 2018 Virtue Insight Mumbai 22 nd May 2018
5 A Clinical Research Workshop with focus on Efficiencies and Advancements in Clinical Data Management   Indian society for clinical research Hyderabad 26-27th  Oct 2018
6 Attended Investigators Meeting for TCV vaccine trial Biological E Pvt Ltd Langkawi, Malaysia 27- 30 th Aug 2019

Workshops organized/worked as Organizing Secretary and also as speaker

Sl. No. Title of the workshop Organised by Venue Date/year
1 Sneak Peek into clinical Research Clinical Development Services Agency and Department of Pharmacology,  JSS Medical College Rajendra Auditorium, JSS Hospital, Mysuru 7th Dec 2017
2 Research methodology and biostatistics using SPSS Clinical Development Services Agency-Centre for clinical research excellence Department of community medicine, JSS medical college & JSS college of pharmacy, Ooty 16-17th February 2018
3 Critical thinking and Good clinical Practice Clinical Development Services Agency-Centre for clinical research excellence (CDSA-CCRE) and JSS AHER JSS Medical College Myyuru 23rd and 24th March 2018
4 Research methodology and biostatistics using SPSS Clinical Development Services Agency-Centre for clinical research excellence JSS medical college   3-5th Oct 2018  
5 Basics of good clinical practice special reference to vaccine trials JSS AHER and JSS Hospital Dept of Paediatrics JSS Hospital, Mysuru 16 Dec 2018
6 Basics of good clinical practice Clinical Development Services Agency-Centre for clinical research excellence (CDSA-CCRE) JSS dental college and hospital, Mysuru 28th February, 2019
7 VI th  workshop on Research methodology and biostatistics using SPSS Clinical Development Services Agency-Centre for clinical research excellence and Department of Community Medicine, JSS Medical College JSS medical college   5-7th Nov 2019
8 GCP training and New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 DBT- Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), New Delhi Incubation Center, CDSA- CCRE Office, 2nd floor, JSS Hospital, Mysuru 7th Jun 2021
9 Site SOPs Training related to clinical trials DBT- Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), New Delhi Lecture Hall-1, Ground floor, JSS Hospital, Mysuru 2nd Jul 2021
10 GCP training and New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 - Virtual- By Shodh clinicals, New Delhi DBT- Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), New Delhi Auditorium Gallery,3rd floor, JSS Hospital 5th Jul 2021
11 BLS training DBT- Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), New Delhi Simulation Lab, JSS AHER research building, Ramanuja Road, Mysuru 6th Jul 2021
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Dr.Rovin M Theempalangad, Pharm D

Clinical Research Assistant, Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE).

Dr.Rovin M Theempalangad joined CDSA-CCRE in August 2021.He completed Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) from JSS AHER with 6 years of experience in Clinical Research, academics and hospital settings. He is handling all site start up activities of clinical trials. He is organized, diplomatic and efficient worker. He is currently involved in clinical trials as Research officer and Pharmacist.

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Ms Keerthana R

Clinical Research Assistant, JSS AHER, Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE)

Keerthana R joined CDSA-CCRE at JSSAHER on February 2024. She is a postgraduate in Biotechnology passed with distinction from University Of Mysore. She is currently handling the site start up activities of CCRE department. She has also qualified GATE XL life science exam– 2024. She has working experience in the field of Bioinformatics during her internship program.

Clinical Research Coordinators

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Mrs Sheelavathi A V

Clinical Research Coordinator, Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE).
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Mrs Ramya U

Clinical Research Coordinator, Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE).
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Ms Yashaswini M L

Clinical Research Coordinator, Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE).
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Ms Keerthana D S

Clinical Research Coordinator, Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE).
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Ms Soundarya P

Clinical Research Coordinator, Centre for Clinical research Excellence (CCRE).