Sanjeev Kumar

Associate Professor Department of Biological Sciences Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani Vidhya Vihar Campus, Rajasthan

Biography

He received his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology with specialization in T-cell signaling from Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His doctoral thesis title is "Signalling events leading to T-cell activation: proliferation and its modulation by Amphotericin B". He received ‘Institut National de la Santè et de la Recherche Médicale’ (INSERM) fellowship and worked as foreign scientist in the laboratory of Prof. Pierrer Ferrier at Centre d'Immunologie Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Marseille, France. During his stay at CIML he worked in the field of T-cell development and studied the regulation of somatic recombination in T-cell receptor (TCR) gene.