I am a native of the Himalayan region in India. I have participated in post-doctoral fellowships at the Indian Institute of Science, UCLA, and Duke-NUS. I now work in Professor Soman Abraham’s dynamic research laboratory, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. My personal interests outside the lab are bungee jumping, glider flying, and participating in community services.

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The current focus of my research is recently discovered signaling pathways which can control mast cell functions in human maladies. A goal of this research is to find novel signaling substrates that may be used as therapeutics and/or diagnostics. I also research the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacterial infections, such as uropathogenic (UPEC).