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Curriculum Vitae
I have finished my Ph.D. at the Department of Sciences of Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources and Engineering (DAFNE), University of Foggia, Italy. I have also completed my B.S. degree in Biotechnology from Patna University, Bihar, India, and followed it with an M.S. degree in Biochemistry at the Hamdard University, New Delhi, India. During my Ph.D. I worked on “Detection of Food Fraud in Commercial Fish products through DNA Based methods”. During the PhD programme I also worked for 3 months as Visiting Research Fellow at University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany where I worked on “Development of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for rapid and direct screening of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in commercial fish products. Earlier I worked as a lecturer and researcher at King Fahd Medical Research Centre, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for 6 years. Prior to that, I worked as a Junior Research Fellow at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, for two years on a research project entitled ‘’development of conformationally preferred peptide immunogens as vaccine candidates against HIV-infection’’.