Bharanidharan Devarajan, M.Sc, Ph.D

Scientist
Bioinformatics and Microbiology, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Madurai, TN
Phone : 0452-4356100 ext : 467
Email: bharani@aravind.org;
Webpage: www.amrf.org.in
Lab: www.bharanid.org

Dr. Bharanidharan Devarajan, is a scientist in the Departments of  Bioinformatics and Microbiology, at the Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Madurai, India. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Biochemistry from University of Madras. He received his Ph. D (2007) in Computational Biology and X-ray crystallography from the Centre for Crystallography and Biophysics at University of Madras. He then pursued his Postdoctoral research at University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA (2008-2010) and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA (2010-2012).
Dr. Bharani, specializes in ocular cancer bioinformatics and systems biology, analysis of genome-wide expression profiles of mRNA and non-coding RNAs, biological pathway analysis, and computational analysis of alternate transcripts. His main research interest is in translational genomics of various eye disease and ocular cancer, to understanding the complexity of biological processes and to identify diagnostic molecular markers for more effective and personalized therapies.