Honors & Fellowships

  1. Senate-Member of National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Raebareli.
  2. 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)
  3. Speaker and session Chair - in the First International SGPGI-URO meet (theme ‘The kidney’) Methods in Kidney Research – 26th December 2014.
  4. Adjunct Faculty- Georgetown University, Washington DC-USA since 2010.
  5. Ramalingaswami National Fellowship for research contribution (year 2008-09) – from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
  6. Research Award (2008) by National Kidney Foundation- USA- for the research “regulation of renal insulin receptors and early signaling protein in diabetes”.
  7. Recipient of ‘Haddad Research Fund’ (July 2008).
  8. Research Day award (2007). Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
  9. Postdoctoral Fellowship- NIA/, NIH, Baltimore, MD .
  10. Recognition by National Institutes of Health, NIH.(2004) for contributions towards Education and training of students.
  11. Senior Research Fellowship - Department of Endocrinology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India.(2000-02).
  12. Travel Award - to attend 11th International Congress of Endocrinology, Sydney, Australia (Oct 2000).
  13. Junior Research Fellowship - Department of Endocrinology, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India (1998-2000).
  14. Merit Award - for holding merit in B.Sc, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India (1999)

Research Grants as Principal Investigator (Extramural)

  1. Department of Biotechnology, Government of India DBT-sanctioned in August, 2019 Role-PI Title: Monitoring placental health & function across pregnancy using nanovesicles-full.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. Department of Biotechnology, Government of India DBT- sanctioned on July 20th 2017 Role-PI Title: Monitoring placental health & function across pregnancy using nanovesicles.
  7. Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India Sanctioned on March 2017 Role- PI Title- Epigenetic modulation by statins in nephropathy
  8. Department of Biotechnology, Government of India DBT- completed in August 2016 Role- PI Title- ‘Identifying renal repair and regeneration pathways using miRNA profiling’
  9. Department of Science and Technology, Government of India DST- completed in May 2015 Role- PI Title- Early diagnostic marker for diabetic nephropathy’
  10. 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
  11. 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)

  1. Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2020-2022) (Ongoing)
    a. Role- PI
    b. Validation of ‘Hi-Screen’ test for COVID-19 developed at SGPGI
  2. Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2018-2020) (Ongoing)
    a. 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
  3. Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2015-2017) (completed)
    a. Role- PI
    b. Title:Analysis of Ghioconeogenic enzymes in Human urinary Exosomes : Pilot study
  4. Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2013-2015) (completed)
    a. Role- PI
    b. Title:Proteomic profiling of urinary exosomes from diabetic patients with microalbuminuria- Pilot study
  5. Intramural Research Grant, SGPGIMS, Lucknow (2010-2012) (completed)
    a. Role- PI
    b. Title:To determine the usefulness of exasomes as a non-invasive marker for diabetic renal disease pilot –study