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Virender
Department: Biological Sciences & Bioengineering
Guide: Ashwani Kumar Thakur
Research Topic
My work is focused on understanding the self-assembly mechanism of small molecules and peptides complicated in neurodegenerative diseases.
I am working on following projects:
1. Phenylalanine self-assembly
2. Huntingtin Exon1 anti-aggregation molecules
Contact Information
Office address:
Lab 6,
Biological Sciences and Bioengineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur- 208016
India
Labs addresses
Lab 6,
Biological Sciences and Bioengineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Kanpur- 208016
India
Lab Phone No: +91-512-259-4079
Email: [email protected]
Education
2004-2008: B. Tech in Biotechnology from Ambala college of Engineering and applied research, Ambala (Kurukshetra University) with 77.11% (Honours)2011-present
PhD from Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, CPI 8.20
Selected Publications
Therapeutic implication of L-phenylalanine aggregation mechanism and its modulation by D-phenylalanine in phenylketonuria. Virender Singh, Ratan Kumar Rai, Ashish Arora, Neeraj Sinha & Ashwani Kumar Thakur, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | 4 : 3875 | DOI: 10.1038/srep03875.
Awards & Fellowships
Qualified GATE 2011 with 98.7 percentile (All India Rank -213)
Qualified CSIR NET JRF June 2011 (All India Rank -24)
Additional information
Professional Experience- Executive (Insulin in process team leader) - 21 months in Quality Control, BIOCON Ltd., Bangalore. Photography- https://www.flickr.com/photos/122391213@N05/