Sunil Kumar Verma
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Sunil Kuamr Verma is an eminent Scientist working in the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), located in Hyderabad, India. He is a respected and widely acclaimed Molecular Biologist in India who developed along with Dr Lalji Singh for the first time a Novel Universal Molecular Technology for Wildlife Identification [1]. This technology later led to the establishment of India’s first ‘National Wildlife Forensic Cell’ in the Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES) [2] to provide the Wildlife Forensics Services to the Nation. This innovation was later honoured with the prestigious CSIR Techonology Award for Life Science for the year 2008 [3] and BiAsia Innovation Award-2009 [4]. This technology is currently being used to establish the identity of confiscated meat, and other animal parts and products to establish the crime with the criminal in the cases pertaining to Wildlife Crime. Dr Verma has been honoured with several other National International Awards and honours, including the Emerging Forensic Scientist Continental Award from the International Association of Forensics Sciences (IAFS), USA; and the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarships of the Commonwealth Commission, UK. Dr. Verma had been the Lindau Fellow during 2003, and most recently he has been admitted as the Fellow of Max Planck-India and the Research Ambassador of DAAD (German Academic Exchange), the largest funding body of the world [5]
Background
Verma was born on September 28 in a small village of Urrat Pradesh and did his schooling in another town 'Tikri' of Uttar Pradesh. In the year 1995, he went to the Pantnagar University, Pantnagar for his Graduation and Post Graduation. He did his doctoral studies in Medical Oncology from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom with prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship. During May 1998-June 2000, Dr. Verma worked in CDFD, Hyderabad as a Scientist in the DNA Fingerprinting Division and since June 2000-till date, he is working as Scientist in CCMB, Hyderabad, India.
At present, Dr Sunil Kumar Verma is working in the arena of molecular cell signaling for understanding of cellular signalling networks and underlying molecular mechanisms in relation to the human health and disease, in particular the tubercusolis and human Cancers. He is also continuing his interests in Wildlife Conservation and Wildlife Forensics.