M.Sc. Biotechnology, M.S. Molecular Sciences, M.Phil. Bioinformatics, Advanced Certificate in Bioinformatics
Current Affiliation
Associate Scientist, Bioinformatics, Scigenom Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Managing curation end of inhouse, proprietary somatic mutation database, OncoMD.
Background and Experience
Six years of bioinformatics teaching and research experience. Appointed Fellow of international, not for profit research organization, PVRI (Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute) for contributions to administrative and scientific activities of society.Regular contributor of scientific commentaries to the PVRI Review journal and speaker at seminars organized by the society.
Received international grant for microarray analysis (2010-2011). Work published and presented in collaboration with Cambridge University, UK and Vanderbilt University, USA.
Areas of interest
Knowledge base of somatic mutations in cancer, and mutations underlying genetic diseases.
Microarray and high throughput data analysis, with special interest in downsteam data analysis involving biological interpretation and annotation, utilizing open source tools.