Principal Investigator

...Sai Prasad Pydi, Ph.D Wellcome/DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION/POSITION

2021 Assistant Professor, IIT-Kanpur, India

2014-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, National institute of diabetes, digestive and kidney diseases .......................(NIDDK), NIH, USA

2009-2014 PhD, Department of Oral Biology, University of Manitoba, Canada

2006-2008 MSc (Biotechnology), Andhra University, India

ACADEMIC AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

Major Awards

2022 Wellcome/DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship, DBT, India.

2021 Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, DBT, India.

2015-2019 Nancy Nossal Fellowship Award, NIDDK, NIH, USA.

2013-2015 Manitoba Health Research Council, PhD Fellowship, Canada.

2013 President’s Graduate Scholarship in Human Genetics, University of Manitoba, Canada.

2010 International Graduate Student Scholarship, University of Manitoba, Canada.

2009-2013 University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship, University of Manitoba, Canada.

2009 International Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship, University of Manitoba, Canada.


Other Awards

2018 Fellows Award for Research Excellence, NIH, USA.

2016 Fellows Award for Research Excellence, NIH, USA.

2013 Faculty of Dentistry, Dean’s Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Manitoba, Canada.

2013 Faculty of Graduate Studies, Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Manitoba, Canada.

2012 Faculty of Dentistry, Dean’s Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Manitoba, Canada.

2012 Faculty of Graduate Studies, Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Manitoba, Canada.

2012 Western Canadian Dental Society Graduate Student Scholarship, Canada.


INVITED TALKS

  • Adipocyte β-arrestin-2 is essential for maintaining whole body energy homeostasis. Aug-2018, Annual LBC Seminar, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.

  • Adipocyte-specific deletion of β-arrestin-2 in mice causes striking metabolic improvements by stimulating the beiging of white fat, April-2018, NIDDK Scientific Conference, Bethesda, MD, USA.

  • β-arrestin-2, a key regulator of adipocyte function in vitro and in vivo. July-2017, Annual LBC Seminar, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.

  • β-arrestin-2, a key regulator of adipocyte function, and whole body glucose and energy homeostasis, Feb-2017, Diabetes/ Metabolism Interest Group, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.

  • Role of β-arrestins in adipocyte function, and whole body glucose and energy homeostasis, June-2016, Diabetes/ Metabolism Interest Group, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.

  • Structure-based drug designing using Discovery studio1.7. 2009, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, INDIA.


Editorial Contribution

  • Guest Associate Editor - Frontiers in Endocrinology


AD HOC REVIEWER

  • Nature Chemical Biology

  • Journal of Clinical Investigation

  • PLOS One

  • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

  • The Journal of Membrane Biology