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Ph.D., University of Calcutta<\/p>\n

Duration: June 2019 – August 2022<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Scientific Affairs Associate, Hyloris Pharmaceuticals.\u200b<\/p>\n

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Ph.D., Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Homi Bhabha National Institute)<\/p>\n

Duration: April 2015 – November\u00a02019<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Scientific Officer D.\u00a0Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Kharghar, Navi Mumbai.\u200b<\/p>\n

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M.Sc., Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.<\/p>\n

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Thesis title: <\/strong>Glycocalyx in invasion and therapeutic resistance in breast cancer.<\/p>\n

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M.Sc., Zoology, University of Burdwan, West Bengal.<\/p>\n

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Thesis title: <\/strong>Islet microenvironment in diabetes: from pathophysiology to Islet tissue engineering<\/p>\n

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M.Sc., Zoology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune.<\/p>\n

Thesis title: <\/strong>Probing the crosstalk between metabolic plasticity and invasion plasticity in breast cancer cells.<\/p>\n

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Current Position:<\/strong> Assistant Professor, Biotechnology Department, Government Institute of Sciences, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.<\/p>\n

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M.Sc., Molecular Biology and Biotechnology,Tezpur University, Assam.<\/p>\n

Thesis title: <\/strong>Microenvironmental regulation of DNA damage and DNA repair in mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs)<\/p>\n

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M.Tech., Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati.<\/p>\n

Thesis title: <\/strong>Probing the role of MMP9 in cancer invasion.<\/p>\n

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Current Position:<\/strong> Post Doctoral fellow. Vanderbilt University. Nashville, Tennessee, USA.<\/p>\n

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M.Tech, Biomedical Engineering, Delhi University.<\/p>\n

Thesis title: <\/strong>Implications of intra-tumor heterogeneity in Cancer Invasion<\/p>\n

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Current Position: <\/strong>Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Medical Engineering (CSME), DMIHER (Deemed to be University) Wardha, Maharashtra,<\/p>\n

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M.Tech, Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati<\/p>\n

Thesis title:\u00a0<\/strong>Bioactive hydrogels for wound healing application<\/p>\n

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Current Position:\u00a0<\/strong>Associate Scientific Manager, Biocon Biologics, Bangalore<\/p>\n

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MSc-Ph.D integrated , Biotechnology, IIT Bombay<\/p>\n

Thesis title:\u00a0<\/strong>Mechanoresponsive regulation of cancer invasion and radioresistance<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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M. Tech, Biomedical Engineering, MNIIT, Allahabad<\/p>\n

Thesis title:<\/strong> Microenvironmental regulation of stem cells: from migration to differentiation.<\/p>\n

Current Position: <\/strong>Post Doctoral fellow. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.<\/p>\n

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M. Tech, Mechanical Engineering,<\/p>\n

Thesis title: Modeling cancer mechanics across multiple length scales: from basic understanding to applications.<\/p>\n

Current Position:\u00a0<\/strong>Post Doctoral fellow. National Institutes of Health (NIH), MD, USA.<\/p>\n

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M.Sc., University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad AP<\/p>\n

Thesis title: <\/strong>Biophysical Regulation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell fate and DNA damage.<\/p>\n

Current Position: <\/strong>Post Doctoral fellow. MD Anderson, Texas, USA.\u200b<\/p>\n

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M. Sc., Molecular Biology and Biotechnology,\u00a0Tezpur University, Assam<\/p>\n

Thesis title:<\/strong>\u00a0MMP-cytoskeletal crosstalk in cancer invasion.\u200b<\/p>\n

Current Position:\u00a0<\/strong>Post Doctoral fellow.\u00a0Weizmann Institute of Science,\u00a0Rehovot, Israel.\u200b<\/p>\n

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M. Tech, Nanomedical Science, Amrita Center for Nanoscience, Cochin, Kerala<\/p>\n

Duration: Jan 2011 – June 2017<\/p>\n

Thesis title: <\/strong>Microenvironmental regulation of cell spreading and motility.\u200b<\/p>\n

Current Position: <\/strong>Associate Editor, JoVE.<\/p>\n

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B. Tech, Computer Engineering Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh UP<\/p>\n

Duration: July 2012 – April 2017<\/p>\n

Thesis title:<\/strong> Microenvironmental regulation of cancer invasion and tumor heterogeneity: Insights from computational modeling<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Post Doctorate fellow, The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada<\/p>\n

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M.Sc., Biotechnology<\/p>\n

Duration: Jan 2011 – Mar 2017<\/p>\n

Thesis title:\u00a0<\/strong>Understanding mechanisms of invasion in drug-resistant ovarian cancer.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong>\u00a0Post Doctorate fellow, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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M.Tech.\/M.Sc.\/M.Phil.<\/h4>\n
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Duration: June 2024 – June 2025<\/p>\n

Project: <\/strong>Role of glycocalyx in preventing DNA damage during confined migration<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Project Associate, IISc, Department of Bioengineering<\/p>\n

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Duration: July 2023 – May 2024<\/p>\n

Project: <\/strong>Therapeutic targeting of glycocalyx in breast cancer.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Bioinformatics engineer, Indx.ai., Mumbai<\/p>\n

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Duration: July 2023 – May 2024<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong> CD44 Glycosylation in Cancer<\/p>\n

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Duration: July\u00a02019 – May 2020<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong> MMPs in cancer invasion.<\/p>\n

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Duration: July\u00a02019 – May 2020<\/p>\n

Project: <\/strong>MMPs in cancer invasion.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Ph. D. Student, University of Toronto,\u00a0Toronto,\u00a0Ontario,\u00a0Canada.<\/p>\n

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Duration: July\u00a02019 – May 2020<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong> Computational modeling of cancer metabolism.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Research Fellow, Cancer System’s Biology laboratory,\u00a0Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.<\/p>\n

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Duration: June 2019 – May 2020<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong> Tissue adhesives for wound healing<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Senior Engineer at TATA Elxsi<\/p>\n

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Duration: July\u00a02018 – May 2019<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong> Cancer glycocalyx.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Ph. D. Student, Washington University in St. Louis,\u00a0St. Louis,\u00a0MO,\u00a0 USA.<\/p>\n

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B.Sc. (Hons.) Zoology, Hindu College, University Of Delhi<\/p>\n

Duration: July\u00a02017 – May 2018<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong> Tissue adhesives.<\/p>\n

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B.Sc. (Hons.) Zoology, University Of Delhi<\/p>\n

Duration: July\u00a02017 – May 2018<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong> Cancer-associated glycoproteins.<\/p>\n

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BSc. (honors) Biomedical Science, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi.<\/p>\n

Duration: May 2016 – May 2017<\/p>\n

Project: Computational modeling of cancer cell invasion.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Ph. D. Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign,\u00a0IL, USA.<\/p>\n

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B.sc Biotechnology St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi.<\/p>\n

Duration: June 2016 – May 2017.<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong> Hybrid hydrogel for tissue engineering.<\/p>\n

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B.Pharm.(Hons.), BITS Pilani.<\/p>\n

Duration: May 2015 – June 2016<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong>Chromatin modeling using Brownian dynamics.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Ph. D. Student, Washington University in St. Louis,\u00a0St. Louis, MO, USA.<\/p>\n

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B.Sc. Microbiology (Hons.),Calcutta University.<\/p>\n

Duration: June 2015 – May 2016<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong>\u00a0Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of alpha-actinin-4 in breast cancer.<\/p>\n

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MSc. Project duration: April 2014 – May 2015<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> PhD Student, The Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore.<\/p>\n

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MSc. Project duration: April 2013 – May 2014<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong>Probing the role of alpha-actinin in cancer invasion.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong> Ph. D. Student, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata.<\/p>\n

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Project Students \/ Staff<\/h4>\n
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M.Tech, Computer Engineering, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore.<\/p>\n

Duration: Dec 2014-June 2015<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong>Ph. D. Student, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai.<\/p>\n

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BSMS 3rd Year Student (DST INSPIRE Fellow).Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata (Pursuing).<\/p>\n

Duration: May 2015-June 2015.<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong>\u00a0Computational modeling of EMT induced cell scattering\u200b<\/p>\n

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Junior Research Fellow.<\/p>\n

Duration: Oct 2011-July 2013.<\/p>\n

Project: Mechanobiological regulation of embryonic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong>\u00a0PhD Student, Southern Illinois Medical School, Carbondale, Illinois.<\/p>\n

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Project Intern<\/p>\n

Duration: Jan 2013-June 2013<\/p>\n

Project:<\/strong>Cancer cell migration on cell derived matrices.<\/p>\n

Current Position:<\/strong>\u00a0PhD Student, University of Colorado, Anchutz Medical Campus, Denver.<\/p>\n

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