Qualifications
PhD (IITR, Lucknow), Postdoctoral Research Fellow (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
Areas of interest
(1) Diet on Gut Microbiome Homeostasis in Cancer Progression & Therapy (2) Development of Functional food for the management of Obesity & Cancer (3) Investigation of the nutritional epigenetics of herbs and spices (4) Impact of diet on cancer cell metabolism
Expertise
- Nutritional Epigenetics
- Dietary Formulations for Metabolic Disorder
- Cancer Metagenomics and Metabolomics
- Animal models for Lifestyle Diseases
Awards and recognition
- Best Research Publication Award 2024-25 CSIR-CFTRI
- NABS-Best Scientist Award-2024
- Dr. MM Dhar Memorial Distinguished Career Achievement Award-2017
- Dr. J.M. Khanna Memorial Early Career Achievement Award-2016
- Young Scientist Grant from DST-SERB from 2012-2015
- Young Scientist Award-2011 by the Association for Biotechnology and Pharmacy (ABAP)
- Gold Medal for work excellence by the Association for Biotechnology and Pharmacy (ABAP)
- Dr. Swarn Nitya Anand Memorial Early Career Achievement Award-2016
- Travel award by the National Institute of Health (NIH), USA-2009
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure Travel grant award-2010 on October 20-21, 2010.
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure Travel grant award on April 17-21, 2010
- Outstanding Visiting Scholar Award-2007” from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA