Professional Activities:

Honors and awards:

• 2013                Breast Cancer Idea Award from Department of Defense
• 2013                Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Career Development Award
• 2012                Outstanding Performance Award from Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer
• 2010                Pancreatic cancer SPORE Career Development Award
• 2010                Elsevier Best Pharmacology Reviewer Award
• 2007                Harris Graduate Student Cancer Research Award
• 2007                Thomas Jefferson Ingenuity Award for the best graduating student of year 2007
• 2006                Graduate Studies Best Student Award
• 2006                Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum Award Winner
                       -Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award
                       -Eppley Institute Best Presentation Award

• 2006               ASCB predoctoral student travel award recipient for ASCB Annual Meeting
• 2006               Selected as American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) member through AAAS/Science                                                    Program for Excellence in Science
• 2005-2006       Vice President for the Graduate Student Association
• 2005               Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum Award Winner
                       -Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Best Presentation Award
• 2004-2005       Student Representative to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graduate Committee
• 2004-2005       Social Chair for the Graduate Student Association
• 2004-2007       Senator for the UNMC Student Senate
• 2002-2006       Graduate Student Research Fellowship
• 2001               Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India-Junior Research Fellowship (ranked in top 20%)
• 2001               Department of Biotechnology, Government of India-Junior Research Fellow at National Institute of Immunology

Memberships and Offices in Professional Societies:

• 2011-present               American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
• 2010-present               American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
• 2006-present               American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2006                           American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Committee Assignments:

• Served as a student presentation judge at MSBRF 2011-2014

• UNMC Graduate student fellowship evaluation committee 2013

Young Faculty Mentor:

• Nicole Shonka                                   Assistant Professor                            2014-current
• Sanjib Chowdhury                              Assistant Professor                            2013-current
• Prakash Radhakrishnan                     Research Assistant Professor              2012-current
• Melissa Teoh-Fitzgerald                     Assistant Professor                             2012-current

Student Supervisory Committee:

• Vinee Purohit  (Mentor)                                                     PhD Student                           2010-2014
• Jaime Abrego (Mentor)                                                      PhD Student                           2014-current
• Teklab Gebregiworgis (Mentor: Dr. Robert Powers)              PhD Student                           2011-current
• Gregory F Hollis         (Mentor: Dr. Amar Natarajan)            PhD Student                           2013-current
• Sohinee Bhattarcharyya (Mentor: Dr. Hamid Band)              PhD Student                           2014-current

Graduate student comprehensive committees

• Ms. Priya Pai
• Mr. Teklab Gebregiworgis
• Ms. Vinee Purohit

Conference Organizing Committees:

• Organizing committee member for 3rd International Conference on Gastroenterology & Urology, July 28-30, 2014 San Francisco.
• Served as a member of the international steering committee for International Conference on Current Trends in Biotechnology & Implications held on 19-21 February 2008 at SVBP University, Meerut, India.