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Core Members

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Arnab Pal M.D., Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

Professor

Department of BIOCHEMISTRY

pal.arnab@pgimer.edu.in

drarnabpal@gmail.com

Phone: 0172-2755177

MBBS (R G Kar Medical College, University of Calcutta) 1998​

M.D. Biochemistry (AIIMS New-Delhi) 2005

Ph.D. (AIIMS New-Delhi) 2009

MAMS (National Academy of Medical Sciences) 2016

Research Interests : Tumor Biomarkers, Radiogenomics, Circulating Tumor Cell Biology

Contact Information:

Department of Biochemistry

Lab #320, Chandigarh, UT, 160012

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Anshika Chauhan, PhD
Project Research Scientist -III

Anshika completed her PhD in 2023 and now joined as Project Research Scientist -III. She is interested in understanding the biology of Circulating Tumour Cells using single cell multiomics and identifying molecular markers of CTCs for prognostic and therapeutic purpose.

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Aditi Sharma, PhD
Project Research Scientist -I

Aditi Sharma completed her PhD from Histopathology department  PGIMER Chandigarh. She joined the lab in 2025, as Project Research Scientist -I. She is working the project related to diagnostic trial of in-house developed CTC detection and isolation method in OSCC patients.

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Geeta
Ph.D. Scholar

Geeta joined the lab as an MSc. Student in Biochemistry in 2019, now she has joined as a PhD scholar from August 2021. Currently she is interested in exploring  spatial and temporal heterogeneity of OSCC tumours.

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Smriti Suri
Ph.D. Scholar

Smriti completed her M.Sc. in Biochemistry from AIIMS Jodhpur. She joined the lab as a PhD student in August, 2021.  She is exploring the role of LCN2, MMP9 and their complex in radioresistance of HNSCC tumours. 

Sakshi 
Ph.D. Scholar

Sakshi completed her M.Sc. in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics from Panjab University, Chandigarh and joined lab in 2023. She is interested in tracking the driver mutation of cervical cancer in CTCs and cfDNA.

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Dr. Manju Parkavi
MD

Manju Joined lab as MD in 2023. She is exploring the role of S100A7 protein in pathophysiology of HNSCC. 

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Hemant Kumar
Ph.D. Scholar

Hemant joined the lab as PhD student in 2024 after completing his M.Sc. in Biochemistry from AIIMS Delhi, 2022. He is interested to understand the role of peripheral immune landscape in CTCs survival.

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Ayushi Mishra 
Ph.D. Scholar

Ayushi joined the lab as PhD student in 2025 after completing her M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Lucknow University, 2023. She is interested in exploration of how genetic variation affect radiation induced toxicity in HNSCC patients. 

Antima
M.Sc. Student

Antima joined the lab as Master student in 2024. He completed his B.Sc. M.L.T. from Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Etawah .

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Akshat A Jha
Junior Research Fellow

Akshat joined the lab as Junior Research Fellow in 2025. He completed his M.Sc. in molecular medicine from Central university, Punjab, 2024. He is working in the project related to establishing HPV oncogenes in ctDNA as prognostic markers for cervical cancer recurrence.

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Kirti
Junior Research Fellow

Kirti joined the lab as Junior Research Fellow in 2025. She completed his M.Sc. in Biophysics from Panjab University, 2025. She is working in the project related to tracking mutation in CTCs and cfDNA for prediciting therapy response in cervical cancer.

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Jaspreet
Senior Project Assistant

Jaspreet joined the lab as Senior project assistant in 2025. He completed his B.Sc. M.L.T. from Rayat Bahra University, 2022.

Alumni

Post-Doc:​

  • Dr. Shabir A Bhat

  • Dr. Savitri Tiwari

  • Dr. Agamani Ghoshal

  • Dr. Sukanya Thakur

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PhD

  • Dr. Reetu Thakur- Research Scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

    • PhD Thesis: Expression and Epigenetic Regulation of Cripto 1 in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  • Dr. Anu Jain - Post Doctoral Research Scientist at Quantitative Proteomics and Metabolomics Center, Columbia University, New York

    • PhD Thesis: Identification and validation of potential salivary biomarker(s) for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) by analysis of salivary proteome

  • Dr. Parul Kamboj - Research Associate at Lab 320, PGIMER

    • PhD Thesis: Effects of metformin on IGF-1 mediated acnegenesis

  • Dr. Don Mathew - Scientist C, Diamond Project, AIIMS, Jodhpur

    • PhD Thesis: Incidence and severity of radiotherapy induced toxicity in Head and Neck cancer patients treated with conventional radical radiotherapy and their association with genetic polymorphisms

  • Dr. Anshika Chauhan, Research Associate at Lab 320, PGIMER

    • PhD Thesis: Circulating Tumour Cells in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Gene Expression Analysis and Relation to Outcomes

  • Dr. Rajandeep Kaur

    • PhD Thesis: Role of Cornulin in the pathophysiology of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC)

 

MD

  • Dr. Navya Gupta- Senior Resident at GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi

  • Dr. Sumanth Kumar

  • Dr. Ankita Gupta- Assistant Professor, Radiotherapy,  TMH, Mumbai

  • Dr. Avardeep Dutta - Senior Resident, Radiotherapy, PGIMER.

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MSc​

  • Anu Jain

  • Janis Khurana

  • Ramandeep Kaur

  • Diksha Sachdeva

  • Harmanjot Kaur

  • Vikas Kumari

  • Geeta

  • Shivalika

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