Awards

    1. Qualified CSIR NET -2015.
    2. Qualified ICMR- JRF -2012.
    3. Qualified UGC-JRF-2012

    Membership of Professional bodies:

    1. Life member of Indian Academy of Neuroscience (2014)
    2. Life member of Indian Society of Cell Biology (2014)
    3. Life member of Society of neurochemistry India (2017)
    4. Life member of Society for Mitochondria Research and Medicine (2024)
    5. Bentham Ambassador from 2020-2025
    6. Life Member of Zoological Society of India (2026)

     

    Research grants:

     

    Research Grants as Principal Investigator (Extramural)

    • ANRF -ECRG-Ongoing
    • DBT BioCare -Ongoing
    • DST SERB-Completed

    Research Grants as Principal Investigator (Intramural)

    • SGPGIMS Intramural-Ongoing

    Invited Talk:

    1. Invited as faculty participant for “User Awareness Programme on ONOS and INFLIBNET Services” at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, scheduled to be held on 09-03-2026
    2. Invited as nominated participants from DBT under the category of Young S&T Leaders (below 45 years), The Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC) held from October 3–5, 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
    3. Invited lecture entitled “Exosomes Secreted by Umbilical Cord Blood-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Attenuate Diabetes in Mice”, at “International conference on current perspectives of biochemistry in health and disease” (7 May – 8 May, 2022) held at Era University, Lucknow.
    4. Invited lecture entitled “Role of mitochondria in Lafora disease”, at “International conference on current perspectives o biochemistry in health and disease” (11 January – 12 January, 2020) held at Department of Zoology, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

     

    Symposia/Workshops/Posters/oral presentations:

    1. Presented oral presentation entitled “Mitochondrial Transcriptome Dysregulation in Gestational-Stage IUGR Placentas” in BioACC-2026 at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, scheduled to be held on 27-03-2026.
    2. Presented a poster entitled “Mitochondrial dysfunction in High-Risk Pregnancy: Clinical Implication and Management” in 48th All India Cell Biology Conference and Symposium at IIT Kanpur, held from December 6-9, 2025.
    3. Member of organizing committee “Update in Molecular Medicine” Workshop & CME Organized by the Department of Molecular Medicine & Biotechnology held on December 17- 18, 2025.
    4. Presented a poster presentation entitled “Analysis of mitochondrial Arginase”, at 6th Annual Conference of Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine-India and International conference on Mitochondria in Health and Disease (10 February-11 February, 2017) held at Jawahar Lal Nehru University, Delhi, India.
    5. Presented a poster presentation entitled “Biochemical and Molecular characterization of isoforms of arginase: impact of isoforms on biology of ammonia and urea metabolism”, at “Indo-US Conference on Advances in Enzymology: Implications in Health, Disease and Therapeutics” (15 January – 19 January, 2017) held at ACTREC, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
    6. Presented a poster presentation entitled “Arginase and Phosphate dependent glutaminase support tolerance against hyperammonemia”, at XXXIII Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Neurosciences (31 October -02 November, 2015) held at Punjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab, India.
    7. Presented an oral presentation entitled “Arginase: A multifunctional enzyme”, at National Conference On “Recent Trends in Zoological Sciences” (25-26 March,2015) held at Department of Zoology, Udai Pratap (Autonomous) College, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. (best Oral Presentation Award).
    8. Presented an ePoster presentation entitled “Inhibition of glutamate accumulation responsible for the hyperammonemia”, at “Neurocon-2015: International Conference on “Development, Degeneration and Regeneration of Neurons: Neurochemistry to Clinical Neurology” (7-10 January, 2015), held at Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India (recipient of Travel award)
    9. Presented an poster presentation entitled “Mystery of mitochondrial membrane-bound arginase in Heteropneustes fossilis”, at XXXVIII All India Cell Biology Conference and International Symposium on “Cellular Response to Drugs” (10-12 December, 2014), held at CDRI, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
    10. Presented an oral presentation entitled “Hyperammonemia induces depletion of cellular energy and neuronal degeneration in brain of Heteropneustes fossilis”, at International Symposium on Translational Neuroscience & XXXII Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Neurosciences (01-03 November, 2014) held at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
    11. Presented a poster entitled “Mitochondrial membrane bound arginase seems to be similar to ARG II in liver of mouse” at National Conference on “Recent trends in proteins structural biology” (16-18 December, 2013), held at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
    12. Presented a poster entitled “Analysis of mitochondrial membrane bound arginase in Mus musculus and Heteropneustes fossilis” at National Conference on “Emerging trends and challenges in basic and translational research in biochemistry” (4-5 February, 2013), held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India.

    Professional Skills Training:

    1. Participated in Workshop on ‘Basic to Advanced Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, and Multi-omics data analysis’ organized by NextGen helper, New Delhi from March 12 -31, 2022.
    2. Successfully participating in expert consultation webinar on spreadsheet data management: simple, convenient yet powerful by ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad, on 09th march, 2022
    3. Successfully participated in the one-week online training on “Basics of R and Python Programming” organized by the Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, from 11th - 15th March 2022.
    4. Successfully participating In SPARC sponsored “International Workshop on Neurobiology of Pain & Itch”, June 29 to July 03, 2021, organized by the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India
    5. Completed three days course on “Workshop on Proteomics” in BHU Varanasi at 16th to 18th may 2016.
    6. Completed refresher course Science Academies’ refresher course on “Experimental biology: orthodox to modern”, at “PG & Research Department of Botany, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India.” On 7th November – 19th November, 2016.
    7. Completed three days course on “Advances microscopy and Imaging techniques” in BHU Varanasi at 11th to 13th august 2015.
    8. Participated as a Student Resource Person in “Brain storming meeting on translational neuroscience” (27-28 September, 2011) held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.