Srinivasan is a classical Carnatic vocalist, percussionist and a Vaggeyakara ( one who composes the lyrics and music) .
He is presently working as a Professor of Biochemistry at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Pondicherry one of the constituent colleges of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, a Deemed to be University.
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute (1) figures among the top 25 medical colleges in the country, as per India rankings 2018 (2), released by NIRF (3).
Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth is accredited by NAAC with A Grade (4) .
Prof.
Srinivasan is also the Registrar of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth (5), which is placed among the top 100 Universities in India as per NIRF 2018 .
He had his undergraduate education at Voorhees College ( 6.), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India and obtained a first class degree in Chemistry in 1982 ( http://voorheescollege.edu.in/ ) He received the Madras University topper award in M.
Sc.
Biochemistry (Faculty of Medicine), having studied at Christian Medical College, Vellore (https://www.biochemistrycmcvellore.in/alumni) .
He received his Ph.D.
degree in Biochemistry from Mysore University ( http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/) in 2000, following doctoral thesis work carried out at the Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India ( http://www.cftri.com/).
Srinivasan is one of the inventors of a patent " A process for the preparation of intracellular Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase enzyme "".