Postdoctoral Researcher
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Texas, USA
Email: virender.ace@gmail.com
Academic and Industry experience
Feb 2022 - Present
Postdoctoral Researcher
UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX
February 2019 - Jan 2022
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
2011 - 2019
M.Tech and PhD
Biological Sciences & Bioengineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
2008 - 2010
Executive
Quality control Biologics
Biocon, Bangalore, India
2004 - 2008
B.Tech Biotechnology
Ambala College of Engineering & applied Research
(Kurukshetra University), India
Professional memberships
A member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals
Reviewer for Advanced Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), Scientific reports, Soft Matter, British Journal of Pharmacology, Bio-protocol and PeerJ
Life Member, National Magnetic Resonance Society, India
Awards/Honors
Sailife-NOST Best Thesis Award 2018 (PhD Thesis)
Shortlisted for 2018 Building Bharat-Boston Biosciences (B4) fellowship (Harvard University) - offer declined
International Travel Support from Indian Council of Medical Research, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and Science and Engineering Research Board, DST
All India Rank 213 (98.7 percentile) in GATE Biotech 2011
All India Rank 24 in CSIR-UGC NET JRF 2011 - Life Sciences and eligible for Lectureship in India
Product development
Part of team to design portable cervical cancer screening endoscope (IITK-KGMU clinical immersion program) to successful early stage funding from Biotechnology Ignition Grant Scheme (BIG) - BIRAC. "A DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GYNAECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION AND CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING " Indian patent application no. 201811032508, PCT/IB2019/057322, WO/2020/044301.
Miscellaneous
Department placement coordinator, IIT Kanpur
Event organizer, Department painting competition, IIT Kanpur