After Completing my master degree in Life Sciences, I joined Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Defense R & D Organization, Delhi, India as Junior Research Fellow for my doctoral degree. During my doctoral research I worked upon the involvement of DNA Checkpoint Functions in Hypoxic stress tolerance. After the award of my PhD degree in 2009, I joined Panacea Biotec Ltd. as Senior Scientific Officer in recombinant Hepatitis B Vaccine production division and stayed there for a year. Thereafter, I joined Graphic Era (Deemed To Be University), Dehradun, India as an Assistant Professor in 2010 and now working as an Professor and Head in the Department of Biotechnology. Presently my lab is engaged in studying basic cellular pathways related to stress and finding new targets for drug development.