Academic Title:
Assistant Professor
Primary Appointment:
Surgery
Location:
670 W Baltimore Street
Phone (Primary):
410-706-3546
Education and Training
2003-2006 B.Sc. Biochemistry, Aligarh Muslim University
2006-2008 M.Sc. Biochemistry, Aligarh Muslim University
2008-2012 Ph.D. Biochemistry, Aligarh Muslim University
2014-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Alabama
2020-2021 Lead Researcher, 3D Genome Consortium, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Research/Clinical Keywords
Cancer: Molecular pathogenesis, tumor-stromal interaction, chemoresistance, Transplant: Operational Tolerance, ischemia-reperfusion injury, disease pathogenesis Overarching: single-cell/nuclei RNA sequencing, immunology, DNA methylation, epigenetics, genomics, non-invasive biomarkers
Highlighted Publications
Awards and Affiliations
2012 Best Poster Award, Aligarh Muslim University, awarded for poster presentation at Silver Jubilee Symposium on Emerging Trends in Biochemical and Toxicological Sciences
2016 Young Investigator Award, American Pancreatic Association at APA Annual Conference in October, 2016
2017 Fellowship to attend the 5th Annual Workshop on Metabolomics, July 16-21, 2017 at University of Alabama, Birmingham sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and Departments of Chemistry and Pharmacology and Toxicology at UAB
2023 Rising Star Award, The 2023 International Congress of ILTS, ELITA and LICAGE at Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2023 Travel Award, The American Transplant Congress, awarded by the Liver-Intestine Community of Practice for Oral Presentation at ATC 2023
Grants and Contracts
ACS-IRG
NSRP
Professional Activity
2016 Designer, Pamphlets for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness at USA Mitchell Cancer Institute
2017 Judge, Poster Session (Graduate and Undergraduate students), NanoBio Summit 2017, USA Mitchell Cancer Institute
2018, 2019 Judge, USA Mitchell Cancer Institute paid-internship oral presentation
2019-2020 Co-organizer, Pancreatic Cancer Research Forum at USA Mitchell Cancer Institute
2022 Judge, Poster Session, 12th Annual Cancer Biology Research Retreat, University of Maryland Baltimore
2022-2025: Sterling Committee Member- Special Interest Group: Precision Medicine and Biomarkers in Liver Transplantation, International Liver Transplantation Society