Dr. Samuel hails from Kerala, India and is currently the Research Associate in Physiology and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. After completing his B.Sc (1998), M.Sc (2003) and M.Phil (2005) in Biochemistry (University of Kerala, Kerala, India), he enrolled for his Ph.D program at the University of Kerala and performed his Ph.D work as an exchange student, with Prof. Dr. Nilanjana Maulik at the Molecular Cardiology and Angiogenesis Laboratory, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA (Sep 2006 - Jan 2010) after which he successfully defended his thesis and was awarded his Ph.D degree (Dec 2010) from the University of Kerala. Dr. Samuel has more than 6 years of post-doctoral experience with Prof. Dr. Chris R. Triggle and Dr. Hong Ding at the WCM-Q (May 2011-June 2017). During his post-doctoral fellowship, Dr. Samuel was also a recipient of the successfully completed Junior Scientist Research Experience Program (JSREP) grant (Feb 2013-Nov 2016) awarded by QNRF. He had been in Prof. Dr. Dietrich Büsselberg’s team as a visiting scientist from Dec 2017 – Dec 2018 after which he has continued as a Research Associate from July 2019 onwards.

His Ph. D work involved conducting research on “Oxidant Stress and Myocardial Angiogenesis in Experimental Animals” and has mastered techniques such as rat and mouse LAD occlusion (Myocardial Infarction model), mouse hind-limb ischemia model, confocal microscopy etc. He has sound research experience in diabetes, endothelial dysfunction, myocardial angiogenesis, and tumor angiogenesis and has over 50 peer-reviewed original and review articles. He has publications in high-impact journals such as Circulation, Trends in Microbiology, Diabetes, Cancer Treatment Reviews, and Cancers.