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• Experienced in Reagent design, development and validation for multicolor flowcytometry based assays• Experienced in assay development of multicolor flowcytmetry immunology kit in dry format for monitoring immune Cells • Efficient in the maintaining quality management system in product development• Experience in data auditing and reviewing the experimental results and trouble shooting the issues

*Profiling of immune signatures in Dengue patients by Flow cytometry employing 8 color HIPC panel*Functional studies on T cells in Dengue*Serology studies on Dengue positive samples

• Development of immunology based assays for screening of compounds for various client and in-house projects.• Development of FACS based proliferation assays for screening of compounds for various clients and in-house projects.• Establishing in vitro cell based assays for screening compounds.• Preparation of protocols for in vitro assays.• Maintenance of cell lines for in vitro studies.

• Pursued PhD from 2008-2013 under the supervision of Prof. R. S Jayshree, Department of Microbiology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India in the field of Immune Tolerance and Tumor Immunology in Cervical Cancer• Worked on role of Cancer Associated Fibroblasts on Tumor microenvironment especially on immune tolerance and Toll Like Receptors in cervical cancer