Introduction

I am a highly motivated, hard-working and responsible biomedical researcher aiming to carry out research in the field of cancer biology so that I can develop novel anti-cancer agents that would give a new hope to the cancer patients. I earned my B.Sc. in Microbiology and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from Bangalore University, India. I have also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Cell and Molecular Bioscience and worked as a research assistant at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In my doctoral research at KIIT University, I am working on the development of a chemotherapeutic regimen to target breast cancer cells by inducing DNA damage and simultaneously inhibiting the DNA repair pathways. I am using in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo pre-clinical model systems to address my research questions. My research is funded by ICMR-SRF fellowship.