Affiliation: Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala,

Dr. Harikrishnan is a laboratory animal Veterinarian. After completing his graduation from the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, he joined SCTIMST (An institution of National importance by an act of Indian parliament 1980, under the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India) in 2003 and was into coronary stent evaluation project in porcine coronary artery model. After working with large laboratory animals for a while he joined the division of Laboratory animal science in 2005 and is still working with small animal models. He developed several small animal surgical models like the rabbit hindlimb ischemia model, osteoporosis in rats, spinal cord injury in rats, intervertebral disc degeneration in rabbits etc to name a few. For his work on hindlimb ischemia, Dr. Harikrishnan was awarded with the Japanese Association of Laboratory Animal Science award in 2009 in Kyoto, Japan.

In 2014, Dr. Harikrishnan completed Master of Laboratory animal science postgraduation from University of Copenhagen, with prestigious scholarships from Laboratory Animals LTD. UK, UFAW UK, SCAND-LAS Sweden, LASA UK, SGV Switzerland, Novo Nordisk and Lundbeck, Denmark. 

Currently, he is a member of CCSEA, Govt. of India, New Delhi which is a statutory body regulating animal experiments in India. He is a PhD scholar at the Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Copenhagen doing work with refinement of animal model for spinal cord injury and nearing the completion of the project by the end of 2023.

Dr. Harikrishnan has over 55 peer reviewed publications and several book chapters.