C Gopi Mohan's Biography

C Gopi Mohan, Associate Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University

Dr. C. Gopi Mohan is Incharge, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology laboratory at the Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita University, Kochi. He obtained Ph.D. degree from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He gained experience as a postdoctoral fellow from the Molecular Biophysics Unit at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and as a Research Officer from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, United Kingdom. Further, he worked as an Associate Researcher of CNRS in Laboratoire de Cristallographie, and Modelisation des Materiaux Mineraux et Biologiques, University Henri Poincare, Nancy, France. During his research career, he visited different countries which include: UK, Canada, France, Finland and USA.
Dr. Gopi Mohan has experience being a faculty at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER), Mohali, Punjab, from 2005 and serving there for six and half years. During his stay at NIPER, he has been instrumental in setting up different laboratories in the Pharmacoinformatics discipline. He was a recipient of the Indo-Finland grant for computational biology, relating to drug development, and had visited the University of Helsinki and University of Turku, to complete this collaborative bilateral program, successfully.
Dr. Gopi Mohan has supervised several Ph.D. and postgraduate students, and completed different research and industrial consultancy projects. He has published more than 70 research papers in refereed journals and is also an active reviewer of different international/national research journals, thesis and grants. Research interest of Dr. Gopi Mohan encompasses Computational Biology & Structural Bioinformatics, Structure-Based Drug Design, Protein crystallography, and Nanoinformatics. Dr. Gopi Mohan is cited as an internationally recognized expert in the field of Structural Bioinformatics & Chemoinformatics and recently awarded ICMR Senior Research International Fellowship.