Curriculum Vitae

Positions 

Profesor 

Schuellein Endowed Chair in Biological Sciences (2024-present)

Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton (2021 - present)

Integrative Science and Engineering Center (ISE) (2021- present)

Director

Graduate Program in Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton (2019-2024)

Associate Profesor 

Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton (2015 - 2021)

Center for Tissue Regeneration and Engineering at Dayton (2015 - 2021)

Integrative Science and Engineering Center (ISE) (2017 -2021)

Assistant Professor 

Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton (2009 - 2015)

Center for Tissue Regeneration and Engineering at Dayton ( TREND )  (2009 - 2015)

Division of Basic Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine ,Macon, GA (2007 - 2009)

Instructor

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX (2006 - 2007)

Education and Training

Postdoctoral Fellow

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas (2002 - 2006) Mentor: Dr. Georg Halder

Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan ROC (1998 - 2002) Mentor: Dr. Y. Henry Sun

Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1997 - 1998) Mentor: Dr. K.P. Gopinathan

Ph.D.

School of Life Sciences, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India (1997) Mentor: Dr. Pradip Sinha

M.Sc.

School of Life Sciences, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India (1991)

Honors 

1. George B. Noland Excellence in Research award from the Sigma Xi Chapter of University of Dayton (2023).

2. Theodore N Law Award for Scientific Achievement form the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Odyssey special fellow program (2005) 

3. Winner of the M.D. Anderson Alumni and Faculty Association Travel Awards, Houston, Texas (2004)

4. Atlanta Pharma Odyssey Award for Excellence, UTMDACC, Houston, Texas (2003)

5. Travel Award from the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, for paper presentation at the 41st  Annual Drosophila Research Conference at Washington D.C., U.S.A. (2001)

6.  National Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan ROC (1998 - 2002) 

7. CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Junior Research Fellowship, declined to accept the K S Krishnan Fellowship (1992)

8. Dr. K. S. Krishnan Research Fellowship, Department of Atomic Energy, BARC, Mumbai, India (1992)