     Dr. Prem Raj Pushpakaran is an Indian life scientist, genetic engineer and presently working as an associate professor of Bio-Technology at National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), Kozhikode, Kerala, India.   His field of expertise is molecular physiology.  ==Education== Pushpakaran received a BSc in Zoology from Mahatma Gandhi University in 1994, an MSc in Bio-Technology from Cochin University of Science and Technology in 1996,  and a PhD in Bio-Technology from Central Drug Research Institute in 2002  prior to post-doctoral studies at Harvard Medical School from 2003 to 2005.   ==Career== As a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, Pushpakaran co-authored three papers on topics related to gene regulation, gut physiology and biophysics.  Following his post-doctoral work at Harvard, Pushpakaran served as an assistant professor of Bio-Technology and Microbiology at King Saud University, KSA, for 3 years (2005-2008), thereafter returned to India to join as the faculty of the NITC.  In addition to his work at NITC, Pushpakaran is active within the academic research community, including serving as a reviewer for International Journal of Nanomedicine,  and as a Faculty Advisor of the Scitable Project, an online collaborative science education project of the Nature Publishing Group.   ==Publications== *  *  *  *  *   ==References==    Category:Living people Category:1974 births  Category:Indian scientists Category:Indian biologists Category:Indian biochemists Category:Kerala scientists Category:People from Kochi Category:People from Kerala Category:Physiologists Category:Biophysicists Category:Geneticists Category:Molecular biologists Category:Microbiologists Category:Systems biologists Category:Biochemists Category:Immunologists Category:Biotechnologists Category:Biostatisticians Category:Bioinformaticians Category:Bioethicists Category:Conservation biologists Category:Cell biologists