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Heather Kuruvilla

Heather Kuruvilla, PhD

Senior Professor of Biology

Biography

Dr. Heather Kuruvilla has been at Cedarville since 1997. She and her students research the epigenetic effects of preclinical cancer drugs on cell cycle regulation. Dr. Kuruvilla was named the Cedarville University Faculty Scholar of the Year in 2007. She has received a number of teaching awards, including the Center for Teaching and Learning Award (2011), Cedarville University Faculty Teaching Effectiveness Award (2004), the SOCHE Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award (2005), Ohio Magazine's Excellence in Education Award (2003), and Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2003–04, 2004–05).

Education and Credentials

  • PhD in Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • BS in Biology, Houghton College

Scholarly Works

  • Purification and Characterization of a Novel Lysozyme Receptor from Tetrahymena Thermophila (Heather G. Kuruvilla) Faculty Dissertations (1997)
  • Netrin-3-peptides Are Chemorepellents and Mitotic Inhibitors in Tetrahymena Thermophila (Bethany C. Khol, Katelyn Malik, Kenneth W. Ward, et al.) Current Topics in Peptide & Protein Research (2018)
  • Characterization of a Netrin-1-like Protein Secreted by Tetrahymena Thermophila (Matthew S. Merical, Bethany C Khol, Katelyn Malik, et al.) Current Trends in Microbiology (2017)
  • Netrin-1 Peptide Is a Chemorepellent in Tetrahymena Thermophila (Heather G. Kuruvilla, Bradley Schmidt, Stephanie E. Song, et al.) International Journal of Peptides (2016)
  • A Call to Forward-Thinking Bioethics (Heather G. Kuruvilla) Bioethics in Faith and Practice

Expert Topics

Bioethics, stem cell research, molecular biology, and signal transduction.

Interests

  • Reading
  • Professional Football
  • Music Composition and Performance

Why Cedarville?

Molecular biology has the potential to cure diseases, reduce world hunger, and help us better steward creation. It is critical that we train up molecular biologists who have an excellent scientific background and are grounded in a biblical foundation so that they may go about the King's work in this field.