Nominated as the Subject expert on the Selection Committees for the post of Senior Professor and Professor in the Department of Biotechnology in the School of Life Sciences at BBAU Lucknow held on April 15th, 2026.
Chairperson session 'Recent Advancements in Biotechnology' at BioACC2026, BBAU Lucknow- March 27th, 2026.
Nominated as Subject expert (external) to review AIIMS (New Delhi) Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Projects 07.01.2026.
Served as expert member on the ICMR CAR 2025 project selection committee meeting held on 6th November 2025.
Chief Guest; Presided the 1st Convention of Women's Wing of Uttar Pradesh Gramin Bank Officers' Association on 24.05.2025 as Chief Guest.
Nominated as a core member of Diabetic kidney core research group of Tamilnad Kidney Research Foundation. February 2025
Conferred as Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Science (NAMS) in 2023
Symposium organizer and Chair - in 2023 American Physiological Summit, held at Long Beach, CA, USA between April 20-23, 2023
Title of Symposium ‘Debatable topics in gluconeogenesis’ Session Date Tuesday, April 21, 2023 from (3:30 AM – 5 PM)
Poster Judge – For posters under the Water and Electrolyte section in 2023 American Physiological Summit, held at Long Beach, CA, USA
Title of Symposium ‘Debatable topics in gluconeogenesis’ Session Date Tuesday, April 21, 2023 from (3:30 AM – 5 PM)
Nominated as Member-Eminent Expert of the Board of Governers (BoGs) of NIPER Hajipur by GoI, November 2nd 2022.
Judge the Oral Presentation for the Best Research Award to Faculty in Basic Sciences for Unpublished Research on the “ANNUAL RESEARCH DAY” of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS), Lucknow on 12th September,2022.
Elected as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, (FRCP) on 11.02.22
Best Research paper award at the 2nd Research Day of the institute in Dec 2021
Symposium organizer and Chair - in 2017 Experimental Biology Meeting, held at Chicago, USA Title of Symposium ‘Sodium Homeostasis in Metabolic Syndrome: Sorting out New and Old Players’ Session Date Tuesday, April 25, 2017 from (10:30 AM – 12:30 PM)
Speaker and session Chair - in the First International SGPGI-URO meet (theme ‘The kidney’) Methods in Kidney Research – 26th December 2014.
Adjunct Faculty- Georgetown University, Washington DC-USA since 2010.
Ramalingaswami National Fellowship for research contribution (year 2008-09) – from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
Research Award (2008) by National Kidney Foundation- USA- for the research “regulation of renal insulin receptors and early signaling protein in diabetes”.
Recipient of ‘Haddad Research Fund’ (July 2008).
Research Day award (2007). Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Recognition by National Institutes of Health, NIH. (2004) for contributions towards Education and training of students.
Senior Research Fellowship - Department of Endocrinology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India (2000-02).
Travel Award - to attend 11th International Congress of Endocrinology, Sydney, Australia (Oct 2000).
Junior Research Fellowship - Department of Endocrinology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India (1998-2000).
Merit Award - for holding merit in B.Sc, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India (1999)
Research Grants as Principal Investigator
(Extramural)
Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India sanctioned in April, 2022 Role-PI Title: Renal transcriptome regulation in kidney disease.
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India DBT-sanctioned in August, 2019 Role-PI Title: Monitoring placental health & function across pregnancy using nanovesicles-full.
Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India February 2019 Role- PI (CoE) Title- Centre for Advance Research and Excellence on Kidney disease: Biomarkers and Therapeutics
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (Indo- Israel) DST (Indo- Israel)- sanctioned on February 2018 Role-PI Title: Exploring therapeutic potential of exosomes in Type I diabetes mellitus.
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India DST - sanctioned on February 2018 Role-Co-PI Title: Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells derived exosomes as biogenic nanocarriers of miRNA and chemotherapeutic drug for reversal of chemoreistance in breast cancer.
Council of Science and Technology (UP), Government of India UPCST - sanctioned in November 2017 Role-PI Title Effect of insulin signaling on tubular Albumin Reabsorption.
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India DBT- sanctioned on July 20th 2017 Role-PI Title: Monitoring placental health & function across pregnancy using nanovesicles.
Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India Sanctioned on March 2017 Role- PI Title- Epigenetic modulation by statins in nephropathy
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India DBT- completed in August 2016 Role- PI Title- ‘Identifying renal repair and regeneration pathways using miRNA profiling’
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India DST- completed in May 2015 Role- PI Title- Early diagnostic marker for diabetic nephropathy’
Department of Education, Ministry of HRD,Government of India DST- sanctioned in 2013 for 5 years Role- co-coordinator (CoE) Title- Establishment of Centre of Excellence in Modern Biology
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India DBT- Ramalingaswami fellowship grant – completed in August 2015 Role- PI Title- The causative role of reduced kidney-epithelial-cell insulin receptor in hypertension.
Research Grants as Principal Investigator (Intramural)
Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2020-2022) (completed)
Role- PI b. Validation of ‘Hi-Screen’ test for COVID-19 developed at SGPGI
Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2018-2020) (completed) Role- PI b. Title:To examine the immunomodulatory effect of Umbilical cord blood Mesenchymal stem cells on HLA matched immune cell interactions in the context of Type 1 Diabetes
Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2015-2017) (completed) Role- PI b. Title:Analysis of Ghioconeogenic enzymes in Human urinary Exosomes: Pilot study
Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2013-2015) (completed) Role- PI b. Title:Proteomic profiling of urinary exosomes from diabetic patients with microalbuminuria- Pilot study
Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2010-2012) (completed) Role- PI b. Title:To determine the usefulness of exasomes as a non-invasive marker for diabetic renal disease pilot –study
