Dr. Sowmya Srinivasan currently serves as Research Scientist & ICMR Research Associate Fellow in the Department of Periodontics, Amrita School of Dentistry, Health Sciences Campus, Kochi.
Dr. Sowmya Srinivasan obtained her BDS degree from SRM Dental College, SRM University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu with Grade A in 2007. She worked as a dental surgeon at RR Dental Hospital, Chennai till 2008. She then completed M Tech in Nanomedical Sciences with distinction in 2010 from Amrita Centre for Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kochi, Kerala. She obtained PhD in Dental Tissue Engineering in 2016 from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kochi, Kerala.
She has been working as a Research Scientist at Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi since 2017. Her job is to help & provide research guidance to dental faculties and post-graduate students for planning and executing research studies. Also provide assistance for manuscript writing and research proposal preparation for government & non-government funding agencies.
Her research interests include dental tissue engineering, 3D printing, stem cell isolation and culture from dental and non-dental sources, periodontal and pulp regeneration, in vivo animal model development and surgery. Her skills include isolation, culture and differentiation of periodontal, pulp and dental follicle stem cells into specific lineages; fabrication of nanomaterials, composites, bioceramics, scaffolds, hydrogels, 3D printed biomaterials for dental, bone and regenerative medicine applications; biochemical & cell-based assays, immunocytochemistry, isolation of growth factors from platelet rich plasma (PRP), microbial culture and evaluation of antibacterial activity. She has hands-on experience in immunofluorescent analysis, flow cytometry, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), dynamic light scattering (DLS), UV-VIS spectrometry, freeze-dryer (lyophilizer), fluorescent microscopy, plate reader.
Her PhD dissertation was focused on the “development of biocompatible trilayered nanocomposite hydrogel scaffold for periodontal regeneration.”
She serves as a reviewer for several international journals. She has 18 publications to her credit with a h-index of 17 and total citations above 1500.
Year : 2019
Cite this Research Publication : Sowmya Srinivasan, “Nanohybrid scaffold structures for smart drug delivery applications”, in Biomimetic Nanoengineered Materials for Advanced Drug Delivery, A. Rajan Unnithan, Sasikala, A. Ramachandr, Park, C. Hee, and Kim, C. Sang, Eds. Elsevier, 2019, pp. 53 - 59.
Publisher : Biomimetic Nanoengineered Materials for Advanced Drug Delivery
Year : 2017
Cite this Research Publication : V. Selvaprithviraj, Sankar, D., Sivashanmugam, A., Sowmya Srinivasan, and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Pro-angiogenic Molecules for Therapeutic Angiogenesis.”, Curr Med Chem, vol. 24, no. 31, pp. 3413-3432, 2017.
Publisher : Curr Med Chem, Bentham Science Publishers B.V.,
Year : 2016
Cite this Research Publication : Nivedhitha Sundaram M., Sowmya Srinivasan, Deepthi, S., Bumgardener, J. D., and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Bilayered Construct for Simultaneous Regeneration of Alveolar Bone and Periodontal Ligament”, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials, 2016.
Publisher : Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials, John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Year : 2015
Cite this Research Publication : Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, Sowmya Srinivasan, P, C. K., H, A., P, J., and Shantikumar V Nair, “Periodontal Specific Differentiation of Dental Follicle Stem Cells into Osteoblast, Fibroblast and Cementoblast”, Tissue Engineering-C: Methods, vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 1044-1058, 2015.
Publisher : Tissue Engineering-C: Methods
Year : 2014
Cite this Research Publication : S. N. Reddy, Sowmya Srinivasan, Bumgardner, J. D., Chennazhi, K. P., Dr. Raja Biswas, and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Tetracycline Nanoparticles Loaded Calcium Sulfate Composite Beads for Periodontal Management”, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects, vol. 1840, pp. 2080-2090, 2014.
Publisher : Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects
Year : 2014
Cite this Research Publication : A. Anitha, Sowmya Srinivasan, Kumar, P. T. S., Deepthi, S., Chennazhi, K. P., Ehrlich, H., Tsurkan, M., and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Chitin and Chitosan in Selected Biomedical Applications”, Progress in Polymer Science, vol. 39, pp. 1644-1667, 2014.
Publisher : Progress in Polymer Science, Elsevier Ltd,
Year : 2013
Cite this Research Publication : Sowmya Srinivasan, Bumgardener, J. D., Chennazhi, K. P., Nair, S. V., and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Role of Nanostructured Biopolymers and Bioceramics in Enamel, Dentin and Periodontal Tissue Regeneration”, Progress in Polymer Science, vol. 38, pp. 1748-1772, 2013.
Publisher : Progress in Polymer Science
Year : 2013
Cite this Research Publication : K. T. Shalumon, Sowmya Srinivasan, Sathish, D., Chennazhi, K. P., Nair, S. V., and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Effect of incorporation of nanoscale bioactive glass and hydroxyapatite in PCL/chitosan nanofibers for bone and periodontal tissue engineering”, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, vol. 9, pp. 430-440, 2013.
Publisher : Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology
Year : 2013
Cite this Research Publication : Sowmya Srinivasan, Kumar, P. T. Sudheesh, Nair, S. V., Chennazhi, K. P., and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Antibacterial and bioactive α- And β-chitin hydrogel/ nanobioactive glass ceramic/nano silver composite scaffolds for periodontal regeneration”, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, vol. 9, pp. 1803-1816, 2013.
Publisher : Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology
Year : 2012
Cite this Research Publication : M. Ga Priya, Baskaran, Kb, Krishnaveni, Dc, and Srinivasan, Sd, “A new leakage power reduction technique for CMOS VLSI circuits”, Journal of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5, pp. 227-232, 2012.
Publisher : Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Year : 2012
Cite this Research Publication : Sowmya Srinivasan, Chennazhi, K. P., Levorson, E. J., Mikos, A. G., and Nair, S. V., “Multiscale fibrous scaffolds in regenerative medicine”, Advances in Polymer Science, vol. 246, pp. 1-20, 2012.
Publisher : Advances in Polymer Science
Year : 2012
Cite this Research Publication : P. Supaphol, Suwantong, O., Sangsanoh, P., Sowmya Srinivasan, Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, and Nair, S. V., “Electrospinning of biocompatible polymers and their potentials in biomedical applications”, Advances in Polymer Science, vol. 246, pp. 213-240, 2012.
Publisher : Advances in Polymer Science
Year : 2012
Cite this Research Publication : Sowmya Srinivasan, Jayasree, R., Chennazhi, K. P., Shantikumar V. Nair, and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Biocompatible alginate/nano bioactive glass ceramic composite scaffolds for periodontal tissue regeneration”, Carbohydrate Polymers, vol. 87, pp. 274-283, 2012.
Publisher : Carbohydrate Polymers
Year : 2011
Cite this Research Publication : Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, Chennazhi, K. P., Sowmya Srinivasan, Shantikumar V Nair, Furuike, T., and Tamura, H., “Chitin Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering”, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 12, pp. 1876-1887, 2011.
Publisher : International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Year : 2011
Cite this Research Publication : P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, Sowmya Srinivasan, Lakshmanan, V. - K., Tamura, H., Nair, S. V., and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “β-Chitin hydrogel/nano hydroxyapatite composite scaffolds for tissue engineering applications”, Carbohydrate Polymers, vol. 85, pp. 584-591, 2011.
Publisher : Carbohydrate Polymers
Year : 2011
Cite this Research Publication : P. T. S. Kumar, Sowmya Srinivasan, Lakshmanan, V. - K., Tamura, H., Nair, S. V., and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Synthesis, Characterization and Cytocompatibility Studies of α-chitin Hydrogel/nano Hydroxyapatite Composite Scaffolds”, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, vol. 49, pp. 20-31, 2011.
Publisher : International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Year : 2011
Cite this Research Publication : Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, Ramachandran, R., Kumar, P. T. Sudheesh, Divyarani, V. V., Sowmya Srinivasan, Chennazhi, K. P., Tamura, H., and Nair, S. V., “Fabrication of chitin-chitosan/nano ZrO2 composite scaffolds for tissue engineering applications”, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, vol. 49, pp. 274-280, 2011.
Publisher : International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Year : 2011
Cite this Research Publication : Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, Chennazhi, K. P., Sowmya Srinivasan, Shantikumar V Nair, Furuike, T., and Tamura, H., “Chitin Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering”, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 12, pp. 1876-1887, 2011.
Publisher : International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Year : 2011
Cite this Research Publication : Sowmya Srinivasan, Kumar, P. T. S., Chennazhi, K. P., Nair, S. V., Tamura, H., and Dr. Jayakumar Rangasamy, “Biocompatible β-chitin Hydrogel/nanobioactive Glass Ceramic Nanocomposite Scaffolds for Periodontal Bone Regeneration”, Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, vol. 25, pp. 1-11, 2011.
Publisher : Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs
