Dr. Solomon Sathishkumar MD

Educational Qualifications 

Professional Experience 

Administrative/Organizational Experience

1. Principal, Christian Medical College, Vellore

2. Council Secretary, Christian Medical College, Vellore

3. Vice-Principal (Vice Dean) for Undergraduate Medical Education, Christian Medical College, Vellore: July 2014 to June 2018. Played a key role in the curriculum renewal

4. Registrar (Pro tem), Christian Medical College – February 2014 till June 2014

5. Deputy Registrar, Christian Medical College – September 2010 till January 2014

6. Physiology Examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate university examinations

7. Secretary, Institutional Animal Ethics Committee – 2009 to October 2014

8. Faculty in-charge of College Animal Facility – 2006 to June 2014

9. Warden, Medical Students Men’s Hostel – 2004 to June 2014

10. President of the Students Association during Medical School

Research interests

1.  Cell based therapy for treatment of osteoarthritis and focal cartilage defects

2. Early clinical exposure & Integrated Teaching Learning methods for medical students

3. Stem cells from adipose tissue – clinical application

Reviewer

British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research

Invited lectures

1. Faculty at the “Research Ethics and Good Clinical Practices Guidelines (GCP)” workshop at Christian Medical College, Vellore

2. Faculty at the ‘World Diabetes Foundation’ Workshops which was held at Christian Medical College, Vellore

3. Faculty at “Workshop on Diabetes” periodically conducted by the department of ‘Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore

Awards

1. Won the first prize for faculty oral presentation at the 12th annual conference of the association of physiologists of Tamilnadu held at Karpagavinayaga medical college, Kancheepuram on 6th October 2018. 

2. “Junior Medical Faculty Training Fellowship” award in the year 2007 which was utilized to train on ‘Adipose tissue-derived Stem Cells’ under Professor Jeffrey Gimble at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

3. Member of the research team which won the Gold medal for best paper presented by a Post Graduate student titled “Allogenic chondrocyte culture and transplant in experimentally created chondral defects in rabbit knees” at the Annual conference, Indian Orthopaedic Association, December 2005.

Conference presentations

1. Oral presentation on “Cell surface protein expression of stem cells from human adipose tissue at early passage with reference to mesenchymal stem cell phenotype” at the “Physiological Society of India” conference held in Bangalore, 2010.

2. Presented a poster titled “Rabbit articular cartilage defects treated with allogenic chondrocyte transplantation” at the WORLD CONGRESS ON TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, April, 2006, Pittsburgh, USA.

3. Oral presentation on “mechanism of action of oduvanthalai leaf poison” at the ‘Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India’ conference, Lucknow – India, 2002.

Publications

1. John JL, Singh G, Parasuraman G, Livingston A, Rebekah G, Daniel AJ, Sathishkumar S and Vinod E. Comparative assessment of human chondroprogenitor viability and molecular phenotype in various parenteral transport media. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 2025 Aug 20;163(1):82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00418-025-02416-y

2. Karunya.B BM, Chacko MP, Parasuraman G, Livingston A, Ramasamy B, Sathishkumar S, et al. Cytogenetic profiling of human articular cartilage chondrocytes, fibronectin adhesion assay derived chondroprogenitors and migratory chondroprogenitors. Connective Tissue Research. :1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03008207.2025.2548271

3. Elizabeth Vinod, Ganesh Parasuraman, J. Jeya Lisha, Jithu James Varghese, Abel Livingston, Grace Rebekah, Deepak Vinod Francis, Solomon Sathishkumar, Alfred Job Daniel and Boopalan Ramasamy . Comparative assessment of chondral defect repair using human bone marrow- and adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells, adult and foetal articular cartilage-derived chondrocytes, and chondroprogenitors: an ex-vivo model. Biotechnol Lett. 2025 Jan 8;47(1):17.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10529-024-03558-0

4. Vinod E, Ganesh Parasuraman, Abel Livingston, Grace Rebekah, Solomon Sathishkumar. Exploring Ghrelin Hormone Secretagogue Receptor and Membrane-Bound Ghrelin O-Acyl Transferase as Potential Markers for Chondrogenesis in Human Articular Cartilage-Derived Cells. European Journal of Anatomy. Nov 2024. https://doi.org/10.52083/ZYHX7619

5. Vinod, E, Parasuraman, G, Livingston, A, Sathishkumar, S and Ramasamy, B. Isolation of Chondrocytes and Chondroprogenitors using Fibronectin Adhesion and Migratory Assay. J. Vis. Exp. (212), e67160, https://dx.doi.org/10.3791/67160

6. Jeya Lisha J, Ganesh Parasuraman, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Deepak Vinod Francis, Abel Livingston, Anjali Goyal, Boopalan Ramasamy, Solomon Sathishkumar and Elizabeth Vinod. Comparative Assessment of Chondral Defect Repair Using Migratory Chondroprogenitors Suspended in either Gelled or Freeze-dried Platelet-Rich Plasma: An In Vitro and Ex Vivo Human Osteochondral Unit Model Study. The Knee. April 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2024.03.006

7. Ganesh Parasuraman, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Deepak Vinod Francis, Abel Livingston, Boopalan Ramasamy, Solomon Sathishkumar and Vinod E. Evaluation of Chondral Defect Repair Using Human Fibronectin Adhesion Assay derived chondroprogenitors suspended in Lyophilized Fetal Collagen Scaffold: An Ex Vivo Osteochondral Unit Model Study. Indian Journal of Orthopaedics. May 2024.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s43465-024-01192-6

8. Elizabeth Vinod, Ganesh Parasuraman, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Sandya Rani, Abel Livingston and Solomon Sathishkumar. Enhanced Visualization of Articular Cartilage Chondroprogenitor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Using Cytospin Centrifugation for Confocal Imaging. European Journal of Anatomy. July 2024. https://doi.org/10.52083/MUNS1446

9. Deepak Vinod Francis, Aishwarya Jayakumaran Rajeswari, John Bino Stephen, Ganesh Parasuraman, Jeya Lisha, Abel Livingston, Sandya Rani, Alfred Job Daniel, Solomon Sathishkumar and Elizabeth Vinod. An ultrastructural report of human articular cartilage resident cells in correlation with their phenotypic characteristics. J Histotechnol. 2024 Mar; 47 (1) : 23 – 38. https://doi.org/10.1080/01478885.2023.2278118

10. Ganesh Parasuraman, Elizabeth Vinod, Abel Livingston, Solomon Sathishkumar and Deepak Vinod Francis. Comparative assessment of the morphology and antigenicity of human osteochondral units using formalin and coagulant fixatives. Eur J Anat, 27 (6): 705-716 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.52083/CVZF3774

11. Vinod, E., Parasuraman, G., Livingston, A., Amirtham, S.M., Rebekah, G., Lisha, J.J., Daniel, A.J., Sathishkumar, S., 2023b. Comparison of methods for the isolation and culture of Migratory chondroprogenitors from Human articular cartilage. Connect Tissue Res 64, 389–399. https://doi.org/10.1080/03008207.2023.2202266

12. Vinod, E., Parasuraman, G., Lisha J, J., Amirtham, S.M., Livingston, A., Varghese, J.J., Rani, S., Francis, D.V., Rebekah, G., Daniel, A.J., Ramasamy, B., Sathishkumar, S., 2023a. Human fetal cartilage-derived chondrocytes and chondroprogenitors display a greater commitment to chondrogenesis than adult cartilage resident cells. PLoS One 18, e0285106. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285106

13. Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Ganesh Parasuraman, Jeya Lisha J, Deepak Vinod Francis, Abel Livingston, Grace Rebekha, Solomon Sathishkumar and Elizabeth Vinod. Decellularized Fetal Collagen Exhibits Chondroinductive Potential for Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Enhancing Glycosaminoglycan Production. European Journal of Anatomy. July 2023.  https://doi.org/10.52083/KJJC3228

14. Vinod E, Lisha J J, Parasuraman G, Livingston A, Daniel AJ and Sathishkumar S. Evaluation of ghrelin as a distinguishing marker for human articular cartilage-derived chondrocytes and chondroprogenitors. J Clin Orthop Trauma. 2023 Jun;41:102175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcot.2023.102175

15. Elizabeth Vinod, Kawin Padmaja, Boopalan Ramasamy, Solomon Sathishkumar. Systematic review of articular cartilage derived chondroprogenitors for cartilage repair in animal models. Journal of Orthopaedics. November 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jor.2022.10.012

16. Kawin Padmaja, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Grace Rebekah, Solomon Sathishkumar and Elizabeth Vinod. Supplementation of articular cartilage-derived chondroprogenitors with bone morphogenic protein-9 enhances chondrogenesis without affecting hypertrophy. Biotechnology Letters. August 2022. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10529-022-03280-9

17. Noel Naveen Johnson, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, B. Sandya Rani, Solomon Sathishkumar, Grace Rebekah, and Elizabeth Vinod. Assessment of the inherent chondrogenic potential of human articular cartilage-derived chondroprogenitors in pellet culture using a novel whole pellet processing approach. Journal of Orthopaedics, March 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jor.2022.03.007 

18. Elizabeth Vinod, Noel Naveen Johnson, Sanjay Kumar, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Jithu Varghese James, Abel Livingston, Grace Rebekah, Alfred Job Daniel, Boopalan Ramasamy and Solomon Sathishkumar. Migratory chondroprogenitors retain superior intrinsic chondrogenic potential for regenerative cartilage repair as compared to human fibronectin derived chondroprogenitors. Scientific reports. November 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03082-5 

19. Elizabeth Vinod, Kawin Padmaja, Abel Livingston, Jithu Varghese James, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Solomon Sathishkumar, Boopalan Ramasamy, Grace Rebekah, Alfred Job Daniel, Upasana Kachroo. Prospective isolation and characterization of chondroprogenitors from human chondrocytes based on CD166/CD34/CD146 surface markers. Cartilage. September 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F19476035211042412 

20. Elizabeth Vinod, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Upasana Kachroo, Anjali Goyal, Ozlem Ozbey, Jithu Varghese James, Solomon Sathishkumar, Boopalan Ramasamy. Articular chondroprogenitors in platelet rich plasma for treatment of osteoarthritis and osteochondral defects in a rabbit knee model. The Knee. March 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2021.03.010 

21. Elizabeth Vinod, Upasana Kachroo, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Boopalan Ramasamy and Solomon Sathishkumar. Comparitive analysis of fresh chrondrocytes, cultured chondrocytes and chondroprogenitors derived from human articular cartilage. Acta Histochemia. November 2019. [Link]

22. Elizabeth Vinod, Jithu James Varghese, Upasana Kachroo, Solomon Sathishkumar, Abel Livingston and Boopalan Ramasamy. Comparison of incremental concentrations of micron-sized superparamagnetic iron oxide for labelling articular cartilage derived chondroprogenitors. Acta Histochemia. 2019. [Link]

23. Elizabeth Vinod, Deepak Vinod Francis, Tripti Jacob, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, Solomon Sathishkumar, Praghalathan Kanthakumar, and Vinay Timothy Oommen. Autologous Platelet Rich Fibrin as a Scaffold for Chondrocyte Culture and Transplantation: An in Vitro Bovine Study. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma. 2019.

24. Elizabeth Vinod, Upasana Kachroo, Ozlem Ozbey, Solomon Sathishkumar, and P. R. J. V. C. Boopalan. Comparison of Human Articular Chondrocyte and Chondroprogenitor Cocultures and Monocultures: To Assess Chondrogenic Potential and Markers of Hypertrophy. Tissue Cell. 2019; 57: 42–48. [Pubmed]

25. Vinod E, Vinod Francis D, Manickam Amirtham S, Sathishkumar S, Boopalan PRJVC. Allogeneic platelet rich plasma serves as a scaffold for articular cartilage derived chondroprogenitors. Tissue Cell. 2019 Feb;56:107–13. [Pubmed] [PDF]

26. Elizabeth Vinod, Ozlem Ozbey, Arumugam Sabareeswaran, Upasana Kachroo, Solomon Sathishkumar, and P. R. J. V. C. Boopalan. Comparison of Monosodium Iodoacetate Model of Osteoarthritis between in-Vivo and Ex-Vivo Osteochondral Unit in Rabbits. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma. 2018. [Link]

27. Elizabeth Vinod , Jithu Varghese James, Arumugam Sabareeswaran, Soosai Manickam Amirtham, George Thomas, Solomon Sathishkumar, Ozlem Ozbey, and P. R. J. V. C. Boopalan. Intraarticular Injection of Allogenic Chondroprogenitors for Treatment of Osteoarthritis in Rabbit Knee Model. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics & Trauma. 2018 [Link] [PDF]

28. Upasana Kachroo, Abel Livingston, Elizabeth Vinod, Solomon Sathishkumar, and P. R. J. V. C. Boopalan. Comparison of Electrophysiological Properties and Gene Expression between Human Chondrocytes and Chondroprogenitors Derived from Normal and Osteoarthritic Cartilage. Cartilage. 2018 [Link]

29. Vinod E, Boopalan P, Arumugam S and Sathishkumar S. Creation of monosodium iodoacetate-induced model of osteoarthritis in rabbit knee joint. Indian J Med Res 2018;147:312-4. [Link] [PDF]

30. Premkumar K, Vinod E, Sathishkumar S, Pulimood AB, Umaefulam V, Prasanna Samuel P and John TA. Self-directed learning readiness of Indian medical students: a mixed method study. BMC Med Educ. 2018 Jun 8;18(1):134. [Pubmed] [PDF]

31. Vinod E, Boopalan PRJVC and Sathishkumar S. Reserve or resident progenitors in cartilage? Comparative analysis of chondrocytes versus chondroprogenitors and their role in cartilage repair. Cartilage 2017. [Pubmed]

32. Sathishkumar S and Vyas R. The incretin effect and its significance - Basic to applied physiology. International Journal of Basic and Applied Physiology. 2012; 1(1): 14-18 [PDF]

33. Vyas R and Sathishkumar S. Early clinical exposure and integration. International Journal of Basic and Applied Physiology. 2012; 1(1): 175-181

34. Solomon Sathishkumar, Preethi Mohanashankar, Boopalan P.R.J.V.C.  Cell surface protein expression of stem cells from human adipose tissue at early passage with reference to mesenchymal stem cell phenotype. International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences. 2011 Vol. 3(5): 129-134. [Link] [PDF]

35. Sangeetha Hareendran, Solomon Sathishkumar, Salar Abbas, Alastair M. Mackay and Prithi Rajan. A novel composition for the culture of human adipose stem cells which includes complement C3. Cytotechnology. (2010) Sep 11. [Epub ahead of print] [Pubmed]

36. Vyas R, Tharion E, Sathishkumar S. Improving the effectiveness of physiology record books as a learning tool for first-year medical students in India. Adv Physiol Educ. 2009 Dec;33(4):329-334. [Pubmed] [PDF]

37. Vyas R, Jacob M, Faith M, Isaac B, Rabi S, Sathishkumar S, et al. An effective integrated learning programme in the first year of the medical course. Natl Med J India. 2008 Feb;21(1):21-26. [Pubmed] [PDF]

38. Gimble J, Guilak F, Nuttall M, Sathishkumar S, Vidal M, Bunnell B. In vitro Differentiation Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Transfus Med Hemother. 2008;35(3):228-238. [Pubmed] [Link]

39. Sathishkumar S, Thomas N, Tharion E, Neelakantan N, Vyas R. Attitude of medical students towards Early Clinical Exposure in learning endocrine physiology. BMC Med Educ. 2007;7:30. [Pubmed] [PDF]

40. Boopalan PRJVC, Sathishkumar S, Kumar S, Chittaranjan S. Rabbit articular cartilage defects treated by allogenic chondrocyte transplantation. Int Orthop. 2006 Oct;30(5):357-361. [Pubmed]

41. Vyas R, Solomon Sathishkumar, Selvaraj KG, Suganthy J, Minnie Faith, Bina Issac, Premila Abraham. Teaching in basic sciences-a novel approach. Integrated case based learning.  The Alumni Journal of CMC Vellore. 2006;40(1):11-15.

42. Subhash HS, Ashwin I, Solomon SK, David T, Cherian AM, Thomas K. A comparative study on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and secondary diffuse parenchymal lung disease. Indian J Med Sci. 2004 May;58(5):185-190. [Pubmed] [Link]

Books/Chapters

A practical guide to Diabetes Mellitus, 4th Edition 2008, Chapter 1, Physiology of diabetes, pages 1 – 13: Solomon Sathishkumar, Editors: Nihal Thomas and K. Senthil Vasan, Publishers: Academa Publishers, Delhi, India