Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer CenterResearch Area: Liquid Biopsy | ctDNA | Drug Screening | Cancer Biomarker • Established circulating tumor HPV DNA as biomarker of therapeutic response and disease recurrence in Oropharyngeal (throat) cancer (liquid and tumor biopsy) • Developed ESR1, TP53 & PIK3CA mutation as biomarker of therapeutic response in breast cancer (liquid biopsy, blood test)• Developed preclinical drug screening platform to test efficiency of drugs• Research led to additional Clinical Trials• Digital PCR based COVID19 detection assay• Society membership: AACR, RSB, Biochemical Society, Sigma Xi• 7 publications | 19 abstracts | 3 Late breaking abstracts | 1 patents | 1 commercial product • 3 awards (including Excellence in Biology Research award) • Peer-reviewing: 150+ manuscripts | 3 government grants | 1 conference | 6 editorial board• Research in Media: 5 university press release | 1 ASTRO press release | 3 ASCO press release• Leadership: 1 international conference organizing committee | 1 instrument incharge• Mentorship: 2 high school students • Scientific recognition: Chartered Biologist (CBiol) and Chartered Scientists (CSci) by RSB• Selected publication: Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Clinical Cancer Research, npj Breast Cancer

Showed excellent entrepreneurial skills to build something from scratch, work under pressure, handle multiple things at a time, and manage the team of highly talented people for the growth of the company. The company was registered with the name "DiGyan SkillTech Solution Private Limited" at New Delhi in February, 2014 and got noticed during business plan competitions. The idea was to serve nation by making smar kids and future leaders. The company is still performing well but my role is limited to guidance only because of the absence of my physical presence onsite.About Company:DiGyan stands for “Digital Gyan” and “Distribute Gyan”. Gyan is a Hindi word (Devanagari script) which literally means ‘knowledge’. DiGyan provides digitally supplemented Gyan (knowledge) to students and equip them with the current developments in the field of learning techniques. DiGyan encourages the implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. Student’s special training includes modules on curriculum, learning methods, career guidance, computer and internet literacy, skills training, innovation, leadership, personality development, and ethics. DiGyan also has specialized skill development training modules for working professionals, job seekers, societies and corporate clients. DiGyan's main focuses are academics and skill development. The aim is to create future leaders and the students trained by us will be assets for the nation. DiGyan SkillTech is a special division in DiGyan for skill development training.

Working on various projects and applying my skills in enzyme characterization and protein purification. The aim was to find a novel metabolic pathway.• Established a novel metabolic route for the utilization of agmatine in A. niger. Novel pathway not reported in any other organism (prokaryote or eukaryote).• Characterized 4-guanidinobutyrase in A. niger, first report in any Aspergilli• 4 Publications | 2 Book chapters | 1 GeneBank sequence | 2 oral talks | 1 award• Mentorship: 4 Ph.D. students, and 5 M.S. students