Postdoctoral Scholar

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy

Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR)

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate..." ~Henry J. Tillman

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Mitochondrial oxidative stress and mtDNA damage: Characterization of cellular mechanisms and prospecting therapeutics from phyto-sources against such damage (doctoral research).

2. Role of Ctip2/Bcl11b in cancer progression, inflammatory response (epidermal and systemic) and wound healing in conditional knock-out (Ctip2ep-/-) mice and human (postdoctoral research).

3. Effect of biosynthetically engineered novel drug analogs in proliferation and metabolism of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (postdoctoral research).

4. Phyto-therapeutic prospecting for novel anti-cancer drug precursors (collaborative research with the Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of BioSciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India).

5. Toxicological profiling and mechanistic elucidation of diverse environmental agents and pollutants (collaborative research with the Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India).

6. Statistical extrapolations of clinical cardiology-associated paraphernalia (collaborative research with Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA).

7. Evolution: Perspectives and insights of evolutionary patterns, with special reference to living fossils.