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| Technical Team |
Steve T. Kunitake, Ph. D.
Steve Kunitake has been a member of the research and development team at ReaMetrix since 2004. From 1998-2003, Steve was director of life science at Arcturus Bioscience, where he developed Arcturus' "Platform for microgenomics," a reagent system preparing microdissected samples for expression analysis. Steve was a senior scientist at Biometric Imaging from 1994-1998, while it was developing a number of cell based assays for the IMAGN system. Prior to that, Steve served as a research scientist in the Atherosclerosis group at the University of California, San Francisco. Steve Kunitake received his Ph. D. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles. |
Narasimham Jammi, Ph. D.
Narasimham Jammi moved to the US to do his MS in Biochemistry after his Bachelors in India at Osmania University. While doing his MS, he decided that he wouldn't mind spending another 6-7 years in abject poverty while getting his Ph. D. and went on to get a doctorate at the University of Utah in Biological Chemistry, during which he was awarded the prestigious Huntsman Cancer Institute Fellowship Following his Ph. D., he did a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. He was a recipient of the Dean's Fellowship at Stanford University, which he turned down to move back to India. He joined the ReaMetrix team in Bangalore because he found the corporate philosophy "People make Companies" to be very appealing. He has several interests besides science and has won the Duke of Edinburgh Awards (Bronze, Silver and Gold Standards) for social service, his oratorical skills as well as his academic achievements. |
Anand Sivaraman, Ph. D.
Anand received his doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His doctoral thesis focused on the design and characterization of a three-dimensional liver bioreactor tissue culture system as a screen for metabolism and toxicity in the Pharmaceutical industry. He was part of a team of MIT scientists and business graduates, who were finalists at the MIT 50K entrepreneurship competition in 2003, for their business and scientific plan for commercializing the three-dimensional in vitro liver tissue culture system. As a postdoctoral associate at MIT in the department of Biological Engineering, Anand studied the influence of cellular microenvironment and transcriptional regulation on the maintenance of a differentiated phenotype in primary liver cell cultures. His interest lies at the interface of science and engineering - specifically in combining principles of engineering and analysis with the science of biology to solve problems in rural health and medicine.
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Shadma Ashraf, Ph. D.
Shadma Ashraf has been a member of Research and Development at ReaMetrix since December 2004. Her areas of interest are Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering. Shadma was always fascinated by term "Edible Vaccines" and this inspired the topic of her Ph.D. studies. Shadma obtained her Ph.D. from CSIR laboratory, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. During her Ph.D. studies, she developed expertise in the art of gene designing, synthesis and sequence modulation to result in high-level expression. Specifically, Shadma's work centered around the design of a chimeric gene coding for rabies virus antigen to be expressed in plant. Immunogenicity and immunoprotective activity of the protein extracted from transgenic plants were detected in balb/C mice. Shadma's innovative work has been published internationally, and she has won several awards domestically in recognition of her work. Shadma's expertise is in molecular biology, gene design and expression and cell line development. |
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