Thiruselvam Viswanathan conducts research in the Hitendra Chand Lab. His research focuses on the structural and functional studies of metalloenzymes relevant to human health using a structural biology approach. During his postdoc, Viswanathan crystallized and solved the structure of AntR -An Sb (III) responsive transcriptional repressor.
Before joining FIU, Viswanathan worked as a cancer prevention research postdoctoral training fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. There he solved the structure of nsp16/10 from SARS-CoV-2. He also studied proteins involved in pediatric cancer towards drug discovery and development.
His Ph.D. work focused on structural, biophysical, and biochemical approaches of RNA binding gene regulatory and Iron storage proteins. While working at RIKEN, SPring8 Center, Japan, his research was focused on nucleosome complex.
Research Interests
- Structural Biology
- Drug Discovery
- Protein Biochemistry
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Education
- Ph.D., Chemistry, Crystallography & Biophysics, University of Madras, India
- MS, Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, India
- BS, Chemistry, Bharathidasan University, India