Professional Activities:

Positions and Honors.

Positions

2000–2002	Junior Research Fellow (JRF), University Grants Commission (UGC) Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi, India
2002–2003	Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, New  Delhi, India
2003–2005	Senior Research Fellow (SRF), Center for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Department of Physiology, V. P. Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
2005–2007	Senior Research Fellow, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Department of Physiology, V. P. Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
2007–2012	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL-60612 US.
2012 –Present	Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL-60612 US.

Honors

2000–2002	Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Research Fellowship granted by University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India.
2003 –2005	Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) granted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR), New Delhi, India.
2005–2007	Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India.
2008	First place in Poster Competition, Great Lakes Chapter-American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (GLC-ASPET) Annual Meeting.
2008	Michael J. Bristow Postdoctoral award for Second place in Poster Competition, Department of Pharmacology University of Illinois, Chicago.
2009	Experimental Biology 2009, “Research Recognition Award” by American Physiological Society.
2009	Michael J. Bristow Postdoctoral Award for First place in Poster Competition, Department of Pharmacology University of Illinois, Chicago, US.
2010-2012	American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.
2010	Michael J. Bristow Postdoctoral Award for First place in Poster Competition, Department of Pharmacology University of Illinois, Chicago, US.
2010	Gold Medal Prize, College of Medicine (COM) Research 2010, for Best Poster Presentation, University of Illinois, Chicago, US.
2011	Young Scientist Travel Award, by The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutic (ASPET), Experimental Biology 2011, Washington, DC.

External Expert Examiner to Review Doctoral Thesis

Appointment of a member of the Board of Examiners by the Vice-Chancellor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India, for evaluation of Ph.D. thesis submitted by a research scholar of the University. The thesis was entitled as, “Neural Regulation of Cardiovascular Function during Inhibition of Nitric Oxide Synthesis in Rats”, 2012