Experience

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Professor of Pathology and Assistant Director of Clinical Chemistry

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Contributions: Methylmalonic Acid (MMA) is a biomarker for assessing Vitamin B12 deficiency and inherited disorder Methylmalonic acidemia. However, some recent studies indicate that it is not limited to these two clinical conditions and showed the significance of MMA measurements in an acquired methyl malonyl CoA mutase deficiency, mechanisms of increased MMA, and its role in aging and tumor progression. See below for the AACC Scientific Shorts article written by me and the other AACC Nutrition Division leadership. https://www.aacc.org/science-and-research/scientific-shorts/2023/evolving-roles-and-clinical-utility-of-methylmalonic-acid-mma Show less



UCLA Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinical Chemistry Fellow

  • Aug 2020 - Aug 2022

  Clinical Chemistry Fellow in a ComACC accredited program at UCLA Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Clinical Chemistry Fellow in a ComACC accredited program at UCLA Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine



Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PHD Candidate

  • Aug 2014 - Jul 2020

  * Studied the role of a novel Angiotensin II induced long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), named it Alivec, and identified an association with hypertension through chondrogenesis of VSMCs https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34685676/ * Presented the research at major conferences in the USA including "Special spotlight session on non-coding RNAs" oral presentation at Experimental Biology-2017 (EB) meeting in Chicago * Worked on collaboration projects from the lab, clinical chemistry team at Texas Children's Hospital and physicians team from China leading to research publications in Circulation Research (IF-15.8) and ATVB (IF-6.6) * Awarded with an Independent pre-doctoral fellowship (2018) from American Heart Association for 2 years * Published a comprehensive review on "Role of long non-coding RNA's in diabetes vascular complications" in Vascular Pharmacology-2018 (IF-3.6) List of Publications can be found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=vishnu+amaram https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=vishnu+samara https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3oUvr58AAAAJ&hl=en Show less



Preclinical CRO

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Case Team Lead

  • Jul 2019 - Sep 2019

  Advised business development strategies for a preclinical contract research organization Advised business development strategies for a preclinical contract research organization



Pet products

• China
• Manufacturing

• Analyst

  • May 2019 - Jul 2019

  Performed primary and secondary market research for pet urine collection devices. Performed primary and secondary market research for pet urine collection devices.



National Centre for Biological Sciences

• India

• Research Associate

  • 2013 - Jul 2014

  Alzheimer's Disease (AD) project: a) Next Generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis of human whole genome, exome (generated from Illumina Hiseq 2000), conducted variant analysis (SNP,indels and CNV's) and transcriptome analysis of RNAseq data for differential gene in expression in patient derived iPSCs and Neurons. b) Differentiation of AD patient derived iPSCs to Neurons and their functional characterization by Immunocytochemistry (ICC) and study of action potential by Whole cell patch clamp. Alzheimer's Disease (AD) project: a) Next Generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis of human whole genome, exome (generated from Illumina Hiseq 2000), conducted variant analysis (SNP,indels and CNV's) and transcriptome analysis of RNAseq data for differential gene in expression in patient derived iPSCs and Neurons. b) Differentiation of AD patient derived iPSCs to Neurons and their functional characterization by Immunocytochemistry (ICC) and study of action potential by Whole cell patch clamp.



Saveetha Medical College And Hospital

• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Manager and Biochemistry Lecturer

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2012

  *Managed Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory -Biochemistry Division of a tertiary care hospital in India and trained Technicians in performing the clinical chemistry diagnostic tests. *Supervised INTERNAL QC, Performed EXTERNAL QC of biochemistry tests *Taught Biochemistry - Basic, Advanced, Clinical/Diagnostic to Medical students (MBBS), Dentists and students of paramedical courses ( Physiotherapy, Nursing, Medical Laboratory Technology). *Managed Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory -Biochemistry Division of a tertiary care hospital in India and trained Technicians in performing the clinical chemistry diagnostic tests. *Supervised INTERNAL QC, Performed EXTERNAL QC of biochemistry tests *Taught Biochemistry - Basic, Advanced, Clinical/Diagnostic to Medical students (MBBS), Dentists and students of paramedical courses ( Physiotherapy, Nursing, Medical Laboratory Technology).