Research Interest

Translational control of gene expression in cellular and viral systems, RNA-protein interactions, regulation of gene expression in inflammation and cancer, molecular evolution

  Academic Qualification

1. Ph.D from the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

  Positions

1. Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, October 2004 to January, 2008.

  Academic and Professional Honours

1. The Elsa Albrecht Fellow Award, 2008, from the Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA.
2. The F. Merlin Bumpus Junior Investigator Award, 2007 from the Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA.
3. The Lower Award for excellence in non-clinical research, 2007 (second position), from the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA.
4. The Tarazi Award for excellence in cardio-vascular research, 2007 (second position), from the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA.
5. The Elsa Albrecht Fellow Award, 2007, (second position) from the Department of Cell Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA.
6. The Sreenivasaya Medal for the year 2004-05, for the best Ph.D thesis from the  department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
7. Postdoctoral Travel Award to Experimental Biology, 2006, by the American Society for Biochemistry and Microbiology.
8. Fellowship Lecture Award to the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, 2009: “Evolution: The molecular Landscape”.