Vascular Biology

My PhD work was carried out in Professor Herbert Steinbeisser's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, and the University of Heidelberg, Germany. I obtained my PhD from the University of Tuebingen, Germany, in 2004. I continued in Herbert's laboratory for 2 more years with a competitive young investigator fellowship from the Heidelberg University Medical School. I focused on elucidating the role of Wnt/Frizzled signaling in regulating embryonic morphogenesis during the seven years I spent in his laboratory.

In 2006, I joined Professor Roy Bicknell's laboratory at the University of Birmingham, UK, as a research fellow to study molecular regulation of tumour angiogenesis. I also established a zebrafish facility to study the development of vascular system during vertebrate embryogenesis.

Subsequently, my interest in clinical research took me to Professor Caroline Dive's laboratory at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester, UK. While studying cancer metastasis using circulating tumour cells as a model in Caroline's group, I also obtained experience in clinical trials, good clinical practice and cancer genomics.

Since December 2011, I head the vascular biology laboratory at ILS, Bhubaneswar, supported by a Ramalingaswami fellowship from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

EDUCATION
 

PhD in Developmental Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany (2004).

MSc in Biotechnology, University of Pune, India (1996).

BSc in Biology (Zoology honours), Utkal University (Bhadrak College), India (1993).

APPOINTMENTS

Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India. Ramalingaswami Fellow (December 2011 - Present).

Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Manchester, UK. Postdoctoral Research Scientist (January 2011 - December 2011). 

University of Birmingham, UK. Research Fellow (June 2006 - December 2010).

University of Heidelberg, Germany. Young Investigator (March 2004 - June 2006).