Tenured Professor and Director of Laboratory: WHO Collaborative National Drug Dependence Treatment Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences…an Internationally reputed hospital and Research Institute, New Delhi, India

Educational Background

• PhD, Delhi University, India
• Post doc in Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Honors & Awards

• Invited to be KEYNOTE speaker at Addiction meetings/conference
• International Visiting Exchange Faculty/Scientist Award, NIDA (worked at University of Pennsylvania)        
• Distinguished International Scientist Collaborative Award (DISCA), NIDA (worked in LSUHSC, LA)        
• Chaired Scientific Sessions on “Addiction” in American Psychiatric Association (APA) Meeting from 2002-2012
• UN Fellowship Awarded for Advanced training in Addiction at University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• Visiting Professor, Rutgers University, Rutgers
• Visiting Professor, University of Iowa
• Fellow of Royal Society of Chemists (C.Chem, FRSC, LONDON)
• Elected on “Board of Directors” for Asia Pacific Society for Alcohol and Addiction Research (APSAAR)
• Invited by Japan to Represent India for formulating by laws of APSAAR
• Elected as Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences in India (MNAMS)
• Nominated as Honorary member of “Board of Directors” by Scientific Council of Skibbereen University, UK
• Best Paper awards
• Elected on “Research Board of Advisers” of American Biographical Institute (ABI)

Publication Summary

• Peer-reviewed research articles.
• Invited to Publish Chapters on Addiction for “Elsevier Publications”
• Invited to Publish Chapters on Addiction in “International Series of Addiction” Praeger Publications, USA.
• Invited to Publish Chapters in Advances in Psychology “Nova Science Publishers’, Inc. USA.
• Chapter in “Genomics and Health in the Developing World” Oxford Publishers
•  Chapter in Substance Use Disorder, Indian Publishers.

 

International Presentations in Research Society of Alcoholism (RSA), International Society of Biological Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA) and other forums:

 

• The importance of ALDH2 and ADH2 loci for alcohol dependence among Indian alcoholics at ISBRA/RSA joint meeting held at Washington DC
• Single nucleotide polymorphism in genes encoding for various alcohol metabolizing enzymes: correlation with alcohol induced tissue specific damage at ISBRA/RSA joint meeting held at Washington DC.
• Role of Alcohol Metabolizing genes in Alcohol induced Pancreatitis, RSA USA.

• Genetic predisposition in Alcohol Dependence: Role of DRD2 genes in Indian population: First Study RSA, USA
• HIV Sero-prevalence in a serial sample of patients at Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (DDTC) at AIIMS, New Delhi, India American Psychiatric Association meetings in New Orleans, LA, USA,
• Single nucleotide polymorphism in genes encoding for various alcohol metabolizing enzymes: correlation with alcohol induced tissue damage RSA, USA
• Alcohol Research in India, Japan Society of Psychiatric Research of Alcoholism, OTSU, Japan
• Alcohol and Depression in India ISBRA, Sydney
• Alcohol metabolizing pathway genes in alcohol dependence AND alcoholic pancreatitis ISBRA, Paris
• Neurodegenerative effects & Genetic Pathways in Alcoholism, International Symposium Singapore
• Patterns of alcohol consumption and management in India: Role of gender and culture, Melbourne
• Dopaminergic pathway genes in alcoholism, SEOUL S. Korea
• Patterns of alcohol consumption and management system in diverse (Asian) Countries: roles of gender and culture, Melbourne
• Genetics of Drug Abuse and Alcoholism on Indian Population, Invited talk, Pakistan

 

NIDA Oral Presentations: College on Drug Dependence (CPDD)

• Effects of the Combination of Metyrapone and Oxazepam on the Cue-Induced Reinstatement of Cocaine Seeking USA
• An overview of substance abuse in India USA
• Association study of the β-arrestin2 (ARRB2) with Opioid and Cocaine dependence in a European American Sample USA
• SNP polymorphisms in the δ-opioid receptor, OPRD1, with cocaine and opioid addicted populations, USA

NK cell activity and Infections in Non Parenteral in Heroin Dependence: A pilot study from India CPDD Meeting in Quebec, Canada.