Dr. Praveenkumar Shetty is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, K S Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte Deemed to be University, Mangaluru, India. He is a trained clinical Biochemist, currently working on understanding the pathobiology of triple-negative breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, etc. He has completed his postdoctoral studies at UTHCT Tyler, Texas. In UTHSC Tyler PI worked on lung injury, lung cancer, and post-transcriptional regulation (mRNA binding protein purification and characterization) of fibrinolytic components like uPA, uPAR, and PAI-I. The initial cell culture study was analyzed and confirmed in various animal models like Flu, Anthrax, Bleomycin lung injury, and different other cancer mouse models. As a senior Postdoctoral researcher at UNT Health Science Center, he started working on the identification and molecular mechanisms of various biomarkers in Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, and other various inflammatory conditions. Dr. Shetty has 25 years of research experience with about 60 high-impact publications.