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Curriculum vitae
Anand Mahadevan Iyer was born in Palghat, Kerala, India on the 5th of June 1974. He completed his higher secondary education (equivalent to A-levels) with physics, chemistry and biology from the Mithibai College in Bombay. He went on to obtain his B.Sc with microbiology (main) and chemistry (subsidiary) in June 1994. This was followed by a protracted but educative stint of research for his M.Sc. at the Foundation for Medical Research (FMR) affiliated to the University of Bombay until 2002. The research involved studying mycobacterial secretory and cytoplasmic antigens for monitoring multidrug therapy and detection of relapses in leprosy patients.
Between December 1999 and April 2000, he visited the lab of Dr. P.K.Das at the department of Pathology, Academic Medical Center (AMC-UvA), Amsterdam where he gained experience in the use of molecular biology and immunological techniques involved in mycobacterial research. Returning to India in April 2000, he continued working at the FMR on the epidemiology of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Bombay using spoligotyping and other molecular techniques.
After completing his M.Sc, he started his Ph.D in September 2002 under the supervision of Dr. P.K.Das at the University of Amsterdam. Since April 2008 he has taken up a position with the neuropathology group at the AMC, working on the role of inflammatory pathways in epilepsy under Dr. Eleonora Aronica.

Publications

Mistry NF, Iyer AM, Harboe MH and Antia NH: Low Rates of detection of mycobacterial secretory Antigen 85 in sera of untreated leprosy patients. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1996 Dec;64:451-3.
Sethna KB and Iyer AM: Comparative leprosy vaccine trial in South India. Indian J Lepr. 1999 Oct-Dec;71:477-80.
Iyer AM, Mistry NF, Harboe MH and Antia NH: Clarification to Rada-Schlaefli. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 2000 Mar;68:63-4..
Mistry NF, Iyer AM, D'souza DTB, Taylor GM, Young DB and Antia NH: Spoligotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from multiple drug resistant patients from Bombay, India. J Clin Microbiol. 2002 Jul;40:2677-80.
Faber WR, Iyer AM, Fajardo TT, Dekker T, Villahermosa LG, Abalos RM and Das PK: Serial measurement of serum cytokines, cytokine receptors and neopterin in leprosy patients with reversal reactions. Lepr Rev. 2004 Sep;75:274-81.
Iyer AM, Mohanty KK, van Egmond D, Katoch K, Faber WR, Das PK, Sengupta U. 2007: Leprosy-specific B-cells within cellular infiltrates in active leprosy lesions. Hum Pathol. 2007 Jul;38:1065-73.
Iyer A, Hatta M, Usman R, Luiten S, Oskam L, Faber W, Geluk A, Das P: Serum levels of interferon-gamma, tumour necrosis factor-alpha, soluble interleukin-6R and soluble cell activation markers for monitoring response to treatment of leprosy reactions. Clin Exp Immunol. 2007; 150:210-6.
Silva EA, Iyer A, Ura S, Lauris JR, Naafs B, Das PK, Vilani-Moreno F: Utility of measuring serum levels of anti-PGL-I antibody, neopterin and C-reactive protein in monitoring leprosy patients during multi-drug treatment and reactions. Trop Med Int Health. 2007 Dec;12:1450-8.

Contact:

E-mail Anand Iyer :
A.M.Iyer (at) amc.uva.nl

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