Ms Anupama Vydyanath

I graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and a Msc in Biological Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India.

After my graduation, I worked for a year in the Molecular Biophysics unit at the Indian institute of Science and a further two years at Aurigene Discovery Technology, a leading drug discovery company founded by Dr Reddy's Laboratories Limited (DRL) in India, as part of the Structure Guided Drug Design Group.  

After moving to England, I took up my doctoral studies at the University of Westminster on the “Assembly and biochemical properties of a human chaperone/co-chaperone protein complex”. The underlying theme for this work was to structurally understand the assembly of Hsp70 proteins with the Hsp40 co-chaperones as a complex during the Hsp70- assisted folding cycle.

 I am currently working as a Research Associate in the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College. I am working for the EU FP7 funded “BIG-Heart” project on familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Using electron microscopy, the alterations caused to the sarcomere structure because of the myosin binding protein C  (MYBPC3) mutations are being studied.