Dean

About

Prof. Kumar received his Master of Science in Biotechnology from the Devi Ahilya University, Indore, (India) in 2006 and his PhD in Biotechnology from Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India in 2011.

After receiving his PhD, he joined Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the year 2011 and worked for one year. He moved to UNESCO-Regional Center for Biotechnology, Faridabad, Haryana (India) and joined as Postdoctoral Fellow in a DBTWelcome Trust project in 2012 and worked on “Understanding Salmonella-mediated alternations in host SUMOylation: implications in infection and inflammation”. From here he got trained in infection biology and continued his work in this area.

He joined Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Barabanki (UP) as an Assistant Professor in the year 2013 as a founder member of Faculty of Biotechnology. He was promoted to Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of Biosciences, Institute of Biosciences and Technology at the SRMU, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India in the year 2016. He was given the charge of Director of Institute of Biosciences and Technology at Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Barabanki in the year June 2021 and worked till September 2022. He is currently working as Professor of Biotechnology and Dean, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences at Mahayogi Gorakhnath University Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh since October 2022 till date.
Dr. Kumar has received “Outstanding Researcher and Academician Award” twice in 2018 and 2019 from Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University for his best contribution in research and academics. He has also received International Travel Grant from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Department of Science and Technology (DST) Government of India, New Delhi (Three times 2010, 2015 and 2018) and from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi in 2010 for presenting his research work at Malaysia, London and Croatia.