Academic Profile
Assistant Professor (July 2024- till date): Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
Post-doctoral Scientist (June 2019- May 2024): Southwest National Primate Research Centre, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Research Associate (March 2018- March 2019): National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India.
PhD (July 2012- February 2018): National Institute of Immunology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
MSc-Biotechnology (July 2010- June 2012): Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Awards, Fellowships and Recognitions
Exemplary short talk award at the 6th Texas Tuberculosis Research Symposium at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in April 2023.
Second place in poster presentation at 10th annual San Antonio Post-doctoral Research Forum 2022.
Recognition award for the oral presentation at 10th annual San Antonio Post-doctoral Research Forum 2022.
Awarded “2022 Forum post-doctoral fellow grant” supported by the Texas Biomed Forum for a period of two years with the award amount of $60,000.
Third place in poster presentation at 9th annual San Antonio Post-doctoral Research Forum 2021.
Recognition award for the oral presentation at 9th annual San Antonio Post-doctoral Research Forum 2021.
‘Global Health Travel Award’ for Keystone Symposium held in Banff, Alberta, Canada in 2019.
ICMR-JRF in July 2012.
General Aptitude Test in Engineering examination (GATE) conducted in February 2012 and secured All India Rank-37 and 99.65 percentile.
National Eligibility Test (NET), conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial research in June 2012 and secured All India Rank-22.
Conferences/ Symposia
Oral presentation titled ‘Investigating the role of Indoleamine 2, 3 dioxygenase blockade as a potential host directed therapeutic strategy for TB-HIV co-infection’ at the 40th Symposium on NHP Models for AIDS, held in October 2023 in Davis, California, USA.
Oral presentation titled ‘Investigating the role of Indoleamine 2, 3 dioxygenase blockade as a potential host directed therapeutic strategy for TB-HIV co-infection’ at the Texas Biomed Research Symposium 2023, held in September 2023 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Oral presentation titled ‘Harnessing Indoleamine 2, 3 dioxygenase signaling pathway as a potential host directed therapy for Tuberculosis’ at the 6th Texas Tuberculosis Research Symposium at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas; on, April 13, 2023.
Oral presentation and poster presentation entitled ‘Inhibition of Indoleamine dioxygenase leads to better control of tuberculosis adjunctive to chemotherapy’ at 10th annual San Antonio Post-doctoral Research Forum (SAPRF), held in September 2022 in San Antonio, USA.
Presented poster entitled ‘Inhibition of Indoleamine dioxygenase leads to better control of tuberculosis adjunctive to chemotherapy’ at 39th Symposium on NHP Models for AIDS, held in September 2022 in Portland, USA.
Presented poster entitled ‘Immune insights of IDO inhibition in adjunct to sub-optimal anti-TB chemotherapy in restraining active disease in M.tb infected rhesus macaques’ at Keystone symposium held in August 2022 in Colorado, USA.
Oral presentation and poster presentation entitled ‘Role of IDO-signaling blockade in reactivation of TB in latent Rhesus macaques co-infected with SIV’ at 9th annual San Antonio Post-doctoral Research Forum (SAPRF), held in December 2021 (Virtual).
Presented poster in 38th Annual NHP-AIDS symposium ‘Role of IDO-signaling blockade in reactivation of TB in latent Rhesus macaques co-infected with SIV’ in September 2021 (Virtual).
Presented poster entitled ‘Mycobacterium indicus pranii as a booster vaccine to BCG induced immunity and confers higher protection in animal models of tuberculosis’ at Science day 2019 organized by National Institute Of Immunology, New Delhi, India.
Presented poster entitled ‘Signalling mechanisms underlying MIP induced autophagy in RAW 264.7 macrophages’ at NCR-Cluster Young Emerging Scientist Symposium organized by National Institute Of Immunology in Feb 2019.
Presented poster entitled ‘Autophagy induction by Mycobacterium indicus pranii promotes Mycobacterium tuberculosis clearance from RAW 264.7 macrophages’ in the Keystone Symposia meeting on Tuberculosis: Mechanisms, Pathogenesis and Treatment held 1/17/2019 - 1/21/2019 at Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Presented poster entitled ‘Protection provided by MIP in M.tb infection: Role of Autophagy’ at Science day 2017 organized by National Institute Of Immunology.
Other Experiences and Professional memberships
Jan 2025-till date: Editororial board member in Microbiology Spectrum, American Society of Microbiology (ASM) journals.
July 2022-July 2024: Guest Associate editor in Clinical Microbiology section of Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Biology