About
Rikeish Muralitharan is a Victorian Heart Institute (VHI) Research Fellow in Pharmacology at Monash University. Their research focuses on the gut microbiome's role in cardiovascular health, particularly hypertension and metabolic pathways. Key areas include gut-brain axis interactions, SCFA signaling, and renal physiology.
Current projects include examining the gut-brain axis in blood pressure regulation (2025–2025). They actively contribute to peer review for journals like Circulation Research and Frontiers in Physiology (Associate Editor since 2023).
Notable achievements include the CSANZ ASM Travelling Fellowship (2023) and the Millennium Science Single-Cell Fellowship (2021). Media highlights include features in Massive Science and International Society of Hypertension profiles.
Research outputs span microbiome guidelines, rodent hypertension models, and clinical utility studies, with over 120 citations across peer-reviewed articles.
