Dr. Kabilan Velliyagounder is a Research Teaching Specialist and Research Associate at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine. He is also an Assistant Professor at Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences-RSDM. He received his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Madras in 1996 and served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) from 1996 to 1997. His research focuses on the antimicrobial effect of human lactoferrin against various oral microbes.