Scientist E-I
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
Profile
Main theme of the laboratory is to elucidate design principles that may remodel surface dynamics of brain tumors, neural stem cells and neurons that crucially in uence origin and progression of neurological diseases with particular emphasis on galectins and lipid rafts as the central modules.
Academic Positions
-
-
DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow & Scientist C
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
-
Post-doctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany and Curie Institut, Paris, France
-
Visiting Fellow
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Education
-
PhD Neuroscience
National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, India
-
Masters' in Medical Biotechnology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Awards
- 2012-2017Department of Biotechnology, Ramalingaswami Fellowship award
- 2012Selected for DBT-Rapid Grant for Young Investigator Award (RGYI)
- 2008-2010Max Planck Institute Post-doctoral Fellowship
- 2008Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN, Japan, travel fellowship for 'Turning Neurons to Brain' conference
- 2001Council for Scientific Research, Govt. of India, Junior and Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR-NET) for pursuing PhD degree
- 2003-2004Visiting Fellow (funded by FIRCA-NIH, USA), Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- 2003First Rank in Pre-PhD Neuroscience Course work
- 2001Indian Institute of Technology, India (IIT, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) 82 percentile
- 1998-2000Dept of Biotechnology, Govt. of India fellowship for pursuing Master's in Medical Biotechnology
- 1997Delhi University Merit Medal for first position in Bachelors degree with Honors
