About AB

Anshu Bhardwaj

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5830-2616

Principal Scientist, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology

Faculty, AcSIR

Chandigarh, India

A biologist and data scientist, obtained Ph.D. in 2008 in understanding genotype-to-phenotype correlations in human mitochondrial diseases from CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad. Served as an Associate scientific advisor to Science Translational Medicine and on the Editorial board of Frontiers in Systems Biology, Genetics and Computational Genomics and Journal of Genetics.

Was one of the four Young Innovators in India, United National Development Program (UNDP), selected for the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program by US State Department, awarded Newton-Bhabha Fund from the British Council and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. SERB Early Career Research Award by SERB, India. More recently, selected as the first female Long-term CRI fellow, Paris, France. Has passion is biomedical big data analytics with focus on understanding infection and rare disease biology towards better therapeutics and diagnostics.

Passionate about Science Education & Research

Education

Feb 2008: Ph.D. in Life Sciences (Bioinformatics) “Theoretical Analysis and Prediction of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) as Diagnostic Markers”, CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad, India

October 2011: Professional Diploma in Clinical Research. Delhi, India

Aug 2001: M. Sc. Biotechnology, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India

July 1999: B. Sc. Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, KRG College, Gwalior, India

Awards & honors

International:

Fellowships/awards:

  1. Jan 2018: Awarded the INSERM CRI Long-term fellowship (€177,000), Paris, France.

  2. Jan 2016: Newton-Bhabha Fund from the British Council and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, as part of the Newton Fund Researcher Links.

  3. Sept 2014: One of the four young innovators at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India Social Good Summit, 21st September 2014, IIT-Delhi, Delhi.

  4. April 2013: International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), “Women In Science", by U.S. Department of State, April 8 - April 26, 2013.

Best Posters:

  1. Sept 2020: Best Poster Award "", OpenTox Virtual Conference 2020.

  2. May 2010: Best Poster Award “Enriching Genome Annotation through Open Collaboration” at the 14th Human Genome Meeting, Montpellier, France (May 18-21, 2010).

  3. Sept 2007: Best Poster Award “A Comprehensive Scheme to Prioritize Mitochondrial Disease Markers” at 9th International Meeting on Human Genome Variation and Complex Genome Analysis, Barcelona, Spain (September 6-8, 2007).

National:

Fellowships/awards:

  1. May 2018: SERB Early Career Research Award, SERB, India

  2. Aug 2001: CSIR-UGC fellowship for JRF-Lectureship.

  3. Aug 2001: ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) for JRF.

  4. Aug 2001: GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) for JRF.

Best Posters:

  1. Feb 2005: Best Poster Award “Evaluating Association of Mitochondrial SNP Haplotypes with Disease Phenotypes using a Novel in silico Tool E-MIDAS” at the combined meeting of the IXth ADNAT symposium on Molecular Medicine & Health & ISHG, CCMB (February 21-25, 2005).

AnshuBhardwaj_CV_Nov2021.pdf

Detailed CV