Honorary doctor of the Medical School, the University of Pécs.
Professor Periannan Kuppusamy received his doctoral degree with specialization in EPR spectroscopy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. Following a Fogarty Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Kuppusamy joined the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a Research Fellow in the Division of Cardiology and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. In 2002 he moved to the Ohio State University, where he is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. He also serves as the Director of the Biomedical EPR Spectroscopy & Imaging Facility in the Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute.
Dr. Kuppusamy's areas of expertise include: detection and imaging of free radicals; myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury; antioxidants; noninvasive measurement and imaging of oxygen, metabolism and redox status in tissues; tumor physiology. He has made a significant contribution to the development of low-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and imaging methods for detecting free radicals (paramagnetic molecules possessing unpaired electrons) in biological systems. The development of magnetic resonance techniques to image physiologically pertinent (functional) parameters such as oxygenation and energy metabolism in myocardium or tumour tissue is an important part of his committed research at the EPR Facility.
Dr. Periannan Kuppusamy has been working in cooperation with the Department of Organic and Pharmacological Chemistry at the Medical School, the University of Pécs for ten years now with great succes. Several scientists of this department of the University of Pécs have visited Professor Kuppusamy's institute in the framework of a study trip. As a result, the Ohio State University and the University of Pécs have many joint research programmes and publications.
Promoter: Prof. Kálmán Hideg, professor emeritus of the Medical School, the University of Pécs