Dr Sivakumar Gowder

Dr Sivakumar Gowder
Professor
Qassim University, College of Applied Medical Sciences,Buraidah, Saudi Arabia

Biography

Dr Sivakumar Gowder received his academic training and carried out his research in institutions of high academic ranking in India and US (University of Madras -Chennai, India; All India Institute of Medical Sciences -New Delhi, India; UT Southwestern Medical Center -Dallas, TX, US; LSH Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, US and University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, US). Sivakumar also served as a faculty at the medical universities in Caribbean. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at the College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, KSA. Sivakumar has won prizes and awards in different levels of his academic career. He has developed his own research methods and techniques relevant to his research disciplines and has published several journal articles, and book chapters and edited several books. Currently, he serves as an author and editor of books; editor in chief for an international journal; editorial member and reviewer for journals; and advisory board member of international organizations and external examiner of doctoral thesis work for international universities. He has been elected as a fellow of prestigious international scientific. Sivakumar has also served as an invited speaker and chairperson for international conferences.

Research Interest

Nutritional biochemistry; Food toxicology; Vitamin transport; Phosphate and calcium metabolism / transport. Free radical biology -oxidative stress and cellular injury. Signaling pathway; Cellular transport and pharmacological binding; Alcohol / drug metabolism; Xenobiotic biotransformation. Cell culture studies and cellular assays; Surgery – uninephrectomy, cellular growth and hypertrophy. Pathological / clinical diagnosis; Clinical biochemistry; Gentics and molecular markers; General toxicological / carcinogenic evaluation; Anti cancer drugs – activity/ toxicity; Molecular evaluation of toxicity and diseases. Development of methods and techniques. Medical education; Scientific / Medical communications.