Dr. Allamreddy holds a medical degree (MBBS) from India. She also has two Master's degrees from the University of Alabama, one in Biological Sciences (M.S) and the other in Public Health (MPH). She practiced as a physician in India and has experience working in both lab and clinical settings. She is also a CHES® certified public health education specialist. During her Master's degree in Biological Sciences, she worked with zebrafish to study the role of MTF-1 as a mediator of ocular toxicity. She characterized the Spatiotemporal Expression of several lens-related genes and retinal-related genes that are potentially regulated in an MTF-1- dependent manner during early zebrafish development by whole-mount in-situ hybridization and real-time RT-PCR. The genes were studied in wild-type embryos and in a transgenic line of embryos having MTF-1 knock-down in an eye-specific manner under lens/ retinal promoter, which helped establish the role of MTF-1 in the development of the lens. The data is the groundwork for future studies to establish regulatory pathways involved in eye development and mediating environmentally related ocular diseases. Swetha joined The Kumar Lab in August 2022, where her research focus will be on developing translatable combination therapy to target hyperglycemia and inflammation for diabetes and associated complications. 

Education
2020 - Master's in Public Health (MPH), The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; CHES® (certified health education specialist)
2017 - MS in Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
2011 - MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Science (equivalent to M.D.)), Mediciti Institute of Medical Sciences, India

E-mail: ​[email protected]

Publications

• Rationally designed naringenin-conjugated polyester nanoparticles enable folate receptor-mediated peroral delivery of insulin. I. M. Heyns, R. Ganugula, T. Varma, S. Allamreddy, N. Kumar, P. Garg, M. N. V. Ravi Kumar, M. Arora. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 15:45651-45657, 2023.

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