Email

thirupathireddy.mokalla@bcm.edu

Positions

Postdoctoral Associate

Pediatrics - Nutrition
Baylor College of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellow

Epidemiology and Bio-statistics
School of Public Health
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, United States

Addresses

1100 BATES (Office)

Houston, TX, 77030
United States

Education

PhD from ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition/Osmania University

11/2022 - Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Statistics

MSc from Osmania University

06/2015 - Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Statistics

BSc from Osmania University

07/2013 - Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Statistics, Mathematics, and Computers

Websites

Professional Development

Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioural Obesity Research, (NIH R25)

Workshop (Participant, 2024)

Sponsor: Indiana University

Mathematical Sciences and Obesity (NIH R25)

Workshop (Participant, 2024)

Sponsor: Indiana University

Get With The Guidelines Data Bootcamp Certification of Completion

Course (Participant, 2024)

Sponsor: American Heart Association

Selected Publications

• Thirupathi R. Mokalla, Erik S. Parker, Daniel L. Smith Jr., Luis-Enrique Becerra-Garcia, Olivia C. Robertson, Deependra K. Thapa, Mounika Kandukuri, Bret M. Rust & David B. Allison. " Association between cagemate number and risk of death in mice: a time-varying covariate analysis using Cox frailty models " Geroscience. 2026 Jan 9;
  Pubmed PMID: 41514094.
• Caldwell AR, Allison DB, Brown AW, Gadbury GL, Mokalla TR, Sayer RD, Vigotsky AD.. " Concerns regarding the standard deviation of individual responses for assessing treatment response heterogeneity " J Appl Physiol. 2025 Nov 1;
  Pubmed PMID: 41026878.
• Deependra K. Thapa, Erik S. Parker, Mounika Kandukuri, Xi (Rita) Wang, Thirupathi R. Mokalla, Olivia C. Robertson, Wasiuddin Najam, Andrew E. Teschendorff, Andrew W. Brown, John R. Speakman, Yisheng Peng, Bernard S. Gorman, Allison B David et al.. " Statistical Methods in Aging Research: Improving Current Practices and Embracing Emerging Approaches " Annual Review Statistics and Its Application. 2025 Nov 18;
• Spitz RW, Thapa DK, Mokalla TR, Najam W, Brown AW, Allison DB. " Conclusions Are Not Supported by the Published Statistical Analysis. Comment on López-Toledo et al. Flaxseed Improves Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Mexican Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes: A Parallel Randomized Clinical Trial. Nutrients 2025, 17, 709 " Nutrients. ;
  Pubmed PMID: 41515286.
• Thirupathi Reddy Mokalla, Vishnu Vardhana Rao Mendu. " Application of quantile regression to examine changes in the distribution of Height for Age (HAZ) of Indian children aged 0-36 months using four rounds of NFHS data " PLoS One. 2022 May ;
  Pubmed PMID: 35622855.
• Thirupathi Reddy Mokalla, Vishnu Vardhana Rao Mendu. " Risk factors and socioeconomic inequalities in undernutrition among children 0-59 months of age in India " International Journal of Population Studies. 2019 May 20; 5
• P Swathi Chitra , Debolina Chaki , Naveen K Boiroju , Thirupathi R Mokalla , Aruna K Gadde , Satish G Agraharam , G Bhanuprakash Reddy. " Status of oxidative stress markers, advanced glycation index, and polyol pathway in age-related cataract subjects with and without diabetes " Exp Eye Res. 2020 Sep ;
  Pubmed PMID: 32931824.
• Paromita Banerjee , G Bhanuprakash Reddy , Hrusikesh Panda , Kiran Kumar Angadi , Thirupathi Reddy , SubbaRao M Gavaravarapu. " Diets, Lifestyles and Metabolic Risk Factors among Corporate Information Technology (IT) Employees in South India " Nutrients. 2023 Jul ;
  Pubmed PMID: 37571341.
• SubbaRao M Gavaravarapu , Ananya Seal , Paromita Banerjee , Thirupathi Reddy , Naresh Pittla. " Impact of 'infodemic in pandemic' on food and nutrition related perceptions and practices of Indian internet users " PLoS One. 2022 Apr ;
  Pubmed PMID: 35446865.
• Giridhar Goudar , Munikumar Manne , G.J. Sathisha , Paras Sharma d , Thirupathi Reddy Mokalla , Shashi Bhushan Kumar , Ouliana Ziouzenkova. " Phenolic, nutritional and molecular interaction study among different millet varieties " Food Chemistry Advances. 2022 Nov ;

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Memberships

Sigma Xi

(08/2024)

National Postdoctoral Association

(01/2025)

American Statistical Association

(01/2025)

American Heart Association

(03/2024)

Indian Society for Medical Statistics (ISMS)

(03/2020)

Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS)

(06/2019)

Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH)

(06/2019)