Professional Activities:
Honors and awards:
- 2013 Breast Cancer Idea Award from Department of Defense
- 2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Career Development Award
- 2012 Outstanding Performance Award from Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer
- 2010 Pancreatic cancer SPORE Career Development Award
- 2010 Elsevier Best Pharmacology Reviewer Award
- 2007 Harris Graduate Student Cancer Research Award
- 2007 Thomas Jefferson Ingenuity Award for the best graduating student of year 2007
- 2006 Graduate Studies Best Student Award
- 2006 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum Award Winner
-Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award
-Eppley Institute Best Presentation Award
- 2006 ASCB predoctoral student travel award recipient for ASCB Annual Meeting
- 2006 Selected as American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) member through AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science
- 2005-2006 Vice President for the Graduate Student Association
- 2005 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum Award Winner
-Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Best Presentation Award
- 2004-2005 Student Representative to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Committee
- 2004-2005 Social Chair for the Graduate Student Association
- 2004-2007 Senator for the UNMC Student Senate
- 2002-2006 Graduate Student Research Fellowship
- 2001 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India-Junior Research Fellowship (ranked in top 20%)
- 2001 Department of Biotechnology, Government of India-Junior Research Fellow at National Institute of Immunology
Memberships and Offices in Professional Societies:
- 2011-present American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
- 2010-present American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- 2006-present American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2006 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
Committee Assignments:
- Served as a student presentation judge at MSBRF 2011-2014
- UNMC Graduate student fellowship evaluation committee 2013
Young Faculty Mentor:
- Nicole Shonka Assistant Professor 2014-current
- Sanjib Chowdhury Assistant Professor 2013-current
- Prakash Radhakrishnan Research Assistant Professor 2012-current
- Melissa Teoh-Fitzgerald Assistant Professor 2012-current
Student Supervisory Committee:
- Vinee Purohit (Mentor) PhD Student 2010-2014
- Jaime Abrego (Mentor) PhD Student 2014-current
- Teklab Gebregiworgis (Mentor: Dr. Robert Powers) PhD Student 2011-current
- Gregory F Hollis (Mentor: Dr. Amar Natarajan) PhD Student 2013-current
- Sohinee Bhattarcharyya (Mentor: Dr. Hamid Band) PhD Student 2014-current
Graduate student comprehensive committees
- Ms. Priya Pai
- Mr. Teklab Gebregiworgis
- Ms. Vinee Purohit
Conference Organizing Committees:
- Organizing committee member for 3rd International Conference on Gastroenterology & Urology, July 28-30, 2014 San Francisco.
- Served as a member of the international steering committee for International Conference on Current Trends in Biotechnology & Implications held on 19-21 February 2008 at SVBP University, Meerut, India.