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I am a research scientist with over 10 years of research, and teaching experience with a strong research background in the field of genomics (metagenomics), Infectious diseases, microbiology, and molecular genetics. As a highly motivated and results oriented researcher, my goal is to make a difference in the lives of millions of people affected by various diseases and improve global human health.
As a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Gary Brenner at Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, we are addressing some of the important research questions, related to the treatment of Schwann-cell derived nerve sheath tumors. Using various genomic, biochemical, and molecular approaches, I investigate key molecular factors associated with chronic pain in the patients affected with neurofibromatosis (NF2) and schwannomatosis disease. Once the responsible molecular factors are identified, they may be used as targets to develop gene therapy-based strategies to alleviate the devastating symptom of chronic pain in the affected patients.
Previously, as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell and as a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Jiannong Xu at New Mexico State University, my research was focused on understanding, vector mosquito biology to develop novel tools that can disrupt mosquito reproduction, effect physiology or target malaria parasite, and associated microbiome within the mosquito. When combined along with existing mosquito or malaria/dengue control strategies these tools will help mitigate the spread of mosquito-borne diseases and in turn control vector mosquito populations.