Anjana Thottapillil
Ph.D., Transdisciplinary UniversityResearch Scientist, School of Bioscience
Anjana Thottapillil
Ph.D., Transdisciplinary UniversityMy research interests focus on understanding the mechanisms underlying lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity, which have emerged as major public health challenges. My doctoral work examined the multi-factorial actions of complex herbal formulations in the management of diabetes and obesity. I am interested in the translational potential of traditional formulations as cost-effective strategies for metabolic disease management, thereby fostering integrative health strategies.
Anjana joined the School of Biosciences at Chanakya University in July 2025. Prior to this, she worked at Cellworks Inc., where she worked as a Senior scientist in the Precision oncology team. She has also worked at Metflux Research Pvt. Ltd., as a project lead, and contributed to the development of in silico platforms for dermatological and metabolic diseases.
She teaches Introductory biology (Bio101) and Experimental techniques in Science at SBS.
- Ph.D., 2025, Transdisciplinary University
- MSc biotechnology, 2007 Amrita University, Kollam
- S. Kalankariyan, A. Thottapillil, A. Saxena et al., “An in silico approach deciphering the commensal dynamics in the cutaneous milieu,” npj Systems Biology and Applications, vol. 11, art. no. 42, 2025, doi: 10.1038/s41540-025-00524-y.
- A. Thottappillil, S. Sahoo, A. Chakraborty, S. Kouser, V. Ravi, S. Garawadmath, and C. N. Vishnuprasad, “In vitro and in silico analysis proving DPP4 inhibition and diabetes-associated gene network modulation by a polyherbal formulation: Nisakathakadi Kashaya,” Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, vol. 42, no. 24, pp. 13588–13602, 2024, doi: 10.1080/07391102.2023.2276880.
- A. Thottapillil, S. Kouser, S. K. Kukkupuni, and C. N. Vishnuprasad, “An ‘Ayurveda–Biology’ platform for integrative diabetes management,” Journal of Ethnopharmacology, art. no. 113575, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2020.113575.
- A. Thottappillil, S. Kouser, A. V. Badiger, P. G. Pinto, S. Ramachandran, S. Janadri, M. P. Mudagal, S. K. Kukkupuni, and S. M. S., “Anti-diabetic and anti-adipogenic effects of polyherbal formulation Varanadi kashayam with a focus on incretin modulation,” bioRxiv, Jun. 2024, doi: 10.1101/2024.06.29.601306, manuscript under review in Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine.
- U. C. A. Jaleel, N. Chethala, C. N. Vishnuprasad, S. Sathish, A. Thottapillil, J. R. K., S. K. Kukkupuni, P. Kulkarni, M. Rakhila, A. Safeeda, A. T. Manuel, and S. EPA, “Artificial neural network based self-organizing maps analysis for clinical trials of Indian systems of medicine,” SSRN, 2023. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4468365.
- C. N. Prasad, A. Thottapillil, A. Banerji, and A. Gopalakrishnapillai, “Gallic acid induces GLUT4 translocation and glucose uptake activity in 3T3-L1 cells,” FEBS Letters, vol. 584, no. 3, pp. 531–536, Feb. 2010, doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.11.092.
Conference Abstract
- Personalized Therapy Design for Early T-Cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ETP-ALL) Using Computational Biology Modeling with in Vitro Validation. Blood 2017 130:1448; Madeleine Turcotte, Raphael Charles Bosse, Kimberly E. Hawkins, Amy Meacham, Vindhya Vijay, Girish Chinnaswamy, Manju Sengar, Ansu Kumar, Shwetha K, Anisha Kamath, Anjana T. Nair, Karthik S. Raju, Taher Abbasi, Shireen Vali, Christopher R. Cogle and Leylah M. Drusbosky.