Prakash Vaithyanathan

Prakash Vaithyanathan, a Science Teacher from India, has been teaching school children for over 30 years. Besides teaching, he is pursuing cancer research independently. His focus is on designing molecules that target the protein AKT1 alone in solid tumours. Recently, he discovered a new Curcumin derivative that interacts with only AKT1 but not AKT2 through bioinformatics studies and the research is available in the archives.

You can access his research publication here: Click to read