Krishna received his Masters in Life sciences (M.Sc) from Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirapalli, India and he moved to Germany to work with Profs. Thomas Rudel and Thomas Meyer at the Max Planck Institute for Infections Biology (MPIIB) in Berlin. After obtaining his PhD, he continued at MPIIB as a scientist before moving to MSZ at the University of Würzburg to start with his own group. He subsequently moved to Frankfurt and was heading an Emmy Noether Group of the DFG at the Institute of Biochemistry II (IBCII), Goethe University. In 2013, he became a Senior group Leader and a PLUS3-Fellow of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation at the IBCII, Frankfurt. He was a Heisenberg professor (2015-2020) in Cell biology (W3) and since 2018, he is head of the Cell Biology unit at the University Medical center, Mainz. Since 2018, Krishna also holds a visiting research directorship at the IMCB, A*STAR Singapore. Krishna's scientific interests are in understanding the molecular signalling machinery controlling fundamental cellular processes like cell death/survival, migration and cellular differentiation. His team employs interdisciplinary approaches to unravel the underlying molecular determinants driving cancer and immune disorders with an aim to effectively translate the findings into clinical practice. To meet these goals, he has recently launched a biopharmaceutical company KHR Biotec GmbH in partnership with the Indivumed Group.
