Dr Sivakumar Joghi Thatha Gowder received his academic training and carried out his research in institutions of high academic ranking in India and US [University of Madras -Chennai, India; All India Institute of Medical Sciences -New Delhi, India; UT Southwestern Medical Center -Dallas, TX, US; LSH Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, US and University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, US]. Sivakumar served as a faculty member at the medical / health sciences universities in the US, Caribbean and Saudi Arabia. Currently, he is working as a faculty member of Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam; consultant for many concerns in foreign nations; director of pharma and education management agencies; and brand ambassador of a corporate sector in India.

• Nutritional biochemistry - Food toxicology - Vitamin transport 
• Free radical biology - Oxidative stress and cellular injury.
• Signaling pathway - Cellular transport and pharmacological binding.
• Alcohol / drug metabolism - Xenobiotic biotransformation.
• Cell culture studies - Cellular assays.