I received my bachelor’s degree from Rajrishi college Alwar, Rajasthan and  Master’s degree from Guru Nanak Dev University,  Amritsar, India. I obtained my Ph.D under supervision of Dr. J S Tyagi at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. My Ph.D work was focused on transcriptional regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
After completion of my Ph.D. in 2009, I joined the laboratory of Dr. Douglas Boyd in the Department of Cancer Biology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC), Houston, US and worked on autophagy and cancer. 
My second postdoctoral fellowship was under the guidance of Dr. Vojo Deretic at University of New Mexico , US. 
In Sept. 2015, I joined as a faculty at Institute of life Science, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
In Sept. 2022,  I  joined as a faculty at CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad, Telangana, India 

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Academic honors :
1. SUNPHARMA Research Award-2023
2. NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award-2022
3. Elected Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA)-2024
4. Elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc)-2023
5. Elected Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (NASI)-2020
6. S Ramachandran-National Bioscience Award for Career Development- DBT, India-2019
7. EMBO Global Investigator Fellowship-EMBO, Germany- 2019-2023
8.  Merck young Scientist Award-2019
9. Selected for Wellcome-DBT intermediate fellowship-2015
10. Selected for Ramanujan Fellowship-2015
11. Selected for Ramalingaswami Fellowship-2015
12. Associate Faculty Member for F1000Prime, 2014-present
13. Associate of Indian Academy of Sciences, 09-2013.
14. Junior  Research Fellowship, CSIR, India 2004-2009.
15. Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering-2003, India.
16. Qualified national level combined biotechnology test, 2001 for M.Sc (Biotechnology).
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