Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

mRNA Nanomedicine Program
Interdisciplinary Biomedical Science and Engineering Program
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Education & Training

JDRF Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston Children’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School

Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology

Ph.D., Chemistry, Arizona State University

M.Sc., Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

B.S., Chemistry, Presidency College Kolkata

Awards & Honors

UNLV Faculty Top Tier Doctoral Graduate Research Assistantship Grant Award

National Institute of General Medical Sciences “Outstanding Investigator” Award (R35)

PhRMA Foundation Starter Grant in Drug Delivery Award

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship, MIT, 2022 – 2024 (declined)

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship, MIT, 2018 – 2021

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship (SPM) in Chemistry, CSIR Government of India, 2009 (declined)

DAAD Research Internship Award in Science and Engineering, 2008