Chief Scientific Officer

Sangeetha Vijay PhD is a scientist with professional experience in the field of cytogenetics and molecular diagnostics. She did her PhD program at Regional Cancer Centre (Trivandrum), where she was involved in routine diagnostic operations of the laboratory along with research. Thereafter, she pursued her professional training in diagnostics as clinical cytogenetic fellow from Greenwood Genetic Centre (South Carolina, USA). 

At OhMyGene, she is engaged as scientific operations manager endowed with the responsibilities of assay development, test validation, developing standard operating procedures , result interpretation,  reporting, communicating the results to the clinicians, monitoring laboratory operations and administration, employment of competent personnel, equipment, safety, laboratory policies, quality assurance, all testing (including proficiency testing) and test reports. 

She is experienced in the area of conventional and molecular cytogenetic techniques (like FISH, SKY, and microarray techniques) along with Sanger sequencing, next generation sequencing and diverse molecular biology techniques. She has several publications and awards to her credit. Some of her awards include young scientist award at the Indian Association of Cancer Research, best paper award at International Conference of Cardiovascular Sciences and travel award from Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) . She has presented her work internationally at Cell Therapy-2012 (Chicago, USA), Asian Oncology Summit-2013 (Bangkok, Thailand) , Human Genome Meeting-2010 (Dubai, UAE) and at several national conferences. She is a professional member of Indian Society of Human Genetics, International Academy of Cardiovascular sciences, Indian Yoga Association and research scholar at Ronin Institute for independent scholarship. 

Besides her experience as a diagnostic professional and researcher in disease biology; she has a deeper interest in complementary and alternative medicine. This initiated her research work and collaborations in the domain of yoga, meditation, ayurvedic psychology and biofield therapy. She is a certified yoga teacher and energy healer with all her diverse interests consolidated towards identifying the key to complete health and well-being.