Dr Sowjanya K KALLAKURI

Sowjanya graduated with a triple Bachelors in Genetics, Biotechnology and Biochemistry and a Masters in Molecular and Human Genetics in India. She then received her PhD from the German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg in 2010 in Developmental Genetics. She worked at Yale School of Medicine, USA as a postdoctoral associate for a few years before moving to Singapore to continue her research on modelling human diseases in vertebrate and invertebrate model systems at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

Sowjanya has a strong interest in healthcare and digitalising healthcare. At Neovation Consultancy Services, she led many medical and scientific projects, and worked as a liaison with the pharmaceutical company’s medical team and external health care professionals including senior professionals and world-renowned key opinion leaders in various therapeutic areas. At SEC, she wishes to continue working on her passion of digitalising healthcare towards a patient-centric model.

Awards

• Conference Award- Zebrafish Disease Models Society 11 Conference Award
  Jan 2018

• Young Scientist award
  Issued by Osmania University, Hyderabad, India · Jan 2015

• Junior Research Fellowship by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (JRF-CSIR)
  Issued by Government of India · Jan 2006

• Shraddha Memorial Trust Scholarship award – for being the topper in Masters
  Jan 2004
   

Publications

• Role of hedgehog signaling in developmental vascular integrity (Sowjanya Kallakuri and Philip W Ingham). Mechanisms of Development. 2017
  
• external page Endothelial Cilia are Essential for Developmental Vascular Integrity in Zebrafish. (Sowjanya Kallakuri, Jianxin A. Yu, Jade Li, Yuanyuan Li, Brant M. Weinstein, Stefania Nicoli and Zhaoxia Sun). J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015
  
• external page Reptin/Ruvbl2 is a Lrrc6/Seahorse interactor essential for cilia motility. (Lu Zhao, Shiaulou Yuan,Ying Cao, Sowjanya Kallakuri, Yuanyuan Li,Norihito Kishimoto, Linda Dibella and Zhaoxia Sun).Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jul.
  
• external page Cooperation between Impα2 and Imp-bKetel in spindle assembly during Drosophila early nuclear divisions. (Erika Virágh, Mátyás Gorjánácz, István Török, Tolga Eichhorn, Sowjanya Kallakuri, Tamás Szlanka, István Kiss and Bernard M. Mechler)- G3 (Bethesda). 2012 Jan.
  
• external page Interplay between Drosophila importin-alpha2, beta and kelch during oogenesis and early embryogenesis. (Sowjanya Kallakuri). archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de. 2010
  
  

Scientific Articles:

• external page AI in healthcare
  
• external page Contact tracing
  
• Parkinson’s disease for Neurodiem-Biogen
  
• external page Regulatory Affairs