Academic Information
Assistant Research Professor
Education & Training
Post-Graduate School
National Institute of Immunology, India
Awards & Honors
- 2018 Poster Judge, University of Missouri Life Sciences Research Week
- 2017 Poster Judge, University of Missouri Life Sciences Research Week
- 2016 Invited Speaker, Department of Vet. Med. & Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
- 2015 Invited Speaker, Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois, Chicago
- 2012 Invited Speaker, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City
- 2012 Editorial Board Member, Journal of Bioscience and Medicine, BioMed Central
- 2012 Ad hoc Reviewer, Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome & Obesity: Targets & Therapy
- 2011 Ad hoc Reviewer, American Journal of Transplantation (4 manuscripts)
- 2011 Ad hoc Reviewer, Journal of Cellular Physiology (3 manuscripts)
- 2011 Board Member, Advisory Editorial Board, Journal of Bioscience and Medicine
- 2011 Invited Speaker, Vistagen Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA
- 2011 Invited Guest Speaker, Super Human Radio
- 2010 Invited Speaker, APSC, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
- 2010 Invited Speaker, the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD
- 2010 Invited speaker, Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Roy J. & Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, UI, Iowa City
- 2010 Institute of Clinical and Translational Science Award, UI Health Sciences Research Week, UI, Iowa City
- 2010 Best Translational Poster, Department of Internal Medicine Research Day, UI, Iowa City
- 2010 Ramalingaswami Fellow, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India
- 2010 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Bioterrorism and Biodefense
- 2010 Ad hoc Reviewer, Journal of Cellular Physiology
- 2009 Invited Speaker, Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson
- 2009 Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA (Top ranking research paper selected from more than 2600 submitted)
- 2009 Research Highlight in “What is Hot, What is New in Basic Science,” ATC 2009, Boston, MA
- 2009 Invited Plenary Speaker, American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA
- 2009 UI Internal Medicine Insider, Employee Spotlight, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
- 2009 Invited Speaker, Experimental Biology Meeting, New Orleans, LA
- 2009 Institute of Clinical and Translational Science Award, UI Health Sciences Research Week, UI, Iowa City
- 2007-2008 Ad hoc Reviewer, American Journal of Transplantation
- 2007 Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress 2007, San Francisco
- 2006 Young Investigator Award, World Transplant Congress 2006, Boston, MA
- 2006 ISSCR Travel Award, fourth annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, Toronto, Canada
- 2004 Ad hoc Reviewer, Molecular Imaging
- 2004 Invited Speaker, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A and University, College Station, TX
- 2004 Invited for oral presentation at 7th annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy, Minneapolis, MN
- 2002 Invited for oral presentation at 5th annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy, Boston, MA.
- 2001 AACR-AstraZeneca Scholar-in-training Award, New Discoveries in Prostate Cancer Biology and Treatment. Naples, FL.
- 1993-1996 Senior Research Fellowship, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.
- 1994 First position at ARS-ICAR, National Entrance Test (Animal Biotechnology).
- ASRB-ICAR, Lecturership Eligibility Award (Animal Biotechnology).
- 1994 CSIR-UGC, Lecturership Eligibility Award (Life Sciences).
- 1991-1993 Junior Research Fellowship, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.
- 1988-1991 Junior Research Fellowship, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar.