Dr. Manoharan is originally from the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Madras. Then he obtained Junior and Senior Research fellowships to do ovarian and cervical cancer research for the award of M.Phil and Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Afterward, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College for a year. Later, he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, USA to do further biomedical research in breast cancer. He also worked as a Senior Research fellow at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Then he worked as a full-time faculty member of the Physiology Department, at Maharishi International University, Fairfield. Iowa. Later he continued his teaching and research career as an Associate Professor at the Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico. At present, he is continuing his teaching and research interest at Miami Dade School District, Florida, USA.