Education
Training
01/2021- 12/2022: Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford Medicine, California, USA
03/2012 - 03/2014: Research Internship
IMTECH, Chandigarh, India
University
2020: Ph.D. Medical Molecular Biology
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
2011: M.Sc. Microbiology
Punjabi University, Patiala, India
2009 - B.Sc. Industrial Microbiology
Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Academic honours, awards and prizes
Invited talks
2022: “Cloud genomics platform for precision medicine” at the Genomics Research to Elucidate the Genetics of Rare Diseases (GREGoR), US
2022: “Uncovering genetic secrets” at the Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN), US
2021: “Robust, reproducible, and rapid end-to-end genomics data analysis” at the NIH-MoTrPAC Data Quality Analysis and Review (DQAR) Board
Awards and honors
2019 Hematocon, New Delhi, India: Best scientific presentation
“RNA targeted CRISPR Cas13a effectively downregulates BCR- ABL1 tumorigenicity in vitro”
2017 Best of ASH CME in Hematology, Mumbai, India: Top 3 works
"Multiple and repetitive variations in TMPRSS6 gene in pediatric cohort with iron refractory iron de]iciency anemia (IRIDA) phenotype."
2017 ESH iCMLf 19th Annual John Goldman Conference on CML, Estoril, Portugal: Select 5 works
“BCR-ABL1 chimeric gene silencing using CRISPR-Cas9 technique: Initial cell culture data”
Grants and Fellowships
2019: Dr JC Patel Best Paper award, ISHBT, India
2017: LEUKA International Scholarship, Leuka, London, UK
2017: Chuttani Fund, TTV Chuttani Trust, Chandigarh, India
2017: International Travel Grant, Immunology Foundation, India
2016-2020: Ph.D. fellowship, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India