Thiruselvam Viswanathan, Ph.D., is an instructor (Research) in Distinguished University Professor Barry Rosen’s lab. His research focuses on the structural and functional studies of metalloenzymes relevant to human health using a structural biology approach. During his postdoc in the Rosen lab, Viswanathan crystallized and solved the structure of AntR -An Sb (III) responsive transcriptional repressor.
Viswanathan worked as a CPRIT postdoctoral training fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. There he solved the structure of nsp16/10 from SARS-CoV-2. He also studied proteins involved in pediatric cancer towards drug discovery and development.
His Ph.D. work focused on structural, biophysical, and biochemical approaches of RNA binding gene regulatory and Iron storage proteins. While working at RIKEN, SPring8 Center, Japan, his research was focused on nucleosome complex.
research interests
Structural Biology Drug Discovery Protein Biochemistry
