Designation: |
Assistant Professor |
Area: |
Bioinformatics |
Qualification: |
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad |
Courses Taught |
Chemoinformatics, Biological data mining, NGS Data Analysis, Introduction to Genomics & Proteomics |
Teaching Field: |
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology |
Experiences: |
Four years research experience and teaching assistantship during Ph.D. tenure at IIIT-Allahabad |
Research Areas: |
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology |
Research Focus: |
Cancer Epigenetics |
Other Interests: |
Playing Cricket & Badminton, Singing & Cooking |
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Information of Research Publications |
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Research Publication Details (From 2014 to 2018): |
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Dr. Utkarsh Raj has earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Bioinformatics & Applied Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad, an Institute of National Importance by Govt. of India (Center for Excellence in IT). His thesis deals with targeting epigenetic regulators for cancer therapy through NGS data analysis, systems biology & structural biology approaches. He was also involved in teaching assistantship for the subjects, Chemoinformatics, Introduction to Genomics & Proteomics, Systems Biology, Biological data mining, NGS data analysis and was also involved in framing projects for students at IIIT-Allahabad. He has published his research in various SCI/SCIE/ESCI and Scopus indexed journals, and also presented his work in different national and international conferences which show his research quest. He serves as a reviewer of several prestigious peer reviewed journals such as Emerging Microbes & Infections, Nature Publications; Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics, Taylor & Francis; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE & ACM Publishers; Computational Biology and Chemistry, Elsevier (Awarded Outstanding Reviewer Award for 2017).
During his tenure at IIIT-Allahabad, he has served as Ph.D.
Representative and was involved as an active member in various student committees. He was awarded MHRD fellowship during his Ph.D. He was selected for ‘Young Research Scholarship’ for attending the 15th International Conference on Healthcare & Life-Science Research (ICHLSR), 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Moreover, he was also awarded with the ‘First award of 500 US$’ for being amongst the Authors of Excellent Papers in 2016 in the journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences. He bagged ‘Young Scientist Award’ in ICET-2016 which was jointly organized by Biotechnology Society of Nepal and Biologix Research and Innovation Centre Private Limited, India. Dr. Raj has delivered many guest lectures and invited talks on Molecular Dynamics Simulation at prestigious institutes like AIIMS, etc. He worked on a part of the DBT project during his postgraduate studies under his thesis mentor. He holds the 1st rank during his M.Tech (Spl: Bioinformatics) studies at Gautam Buddha University and was also awarded 50% scholarship throughout his B.Tech degree on the basis of academic performance.