Smita C Pawar
Professor
Genetics
Osmania University
India
Biography
Obtained Master's degree in M. Sc Genetics in 2001 and Ph.D was awarded in the year 2009 from Osmania University. Qualified the Group II state administrative services twice and worked as a Group IIObtained Master's degree in M. Sc Genetics in 2001 and Ph.D was awarded in the year 2009 from Osmania University. Qualified the Group II state administrative services twice and worked as a Group II 5231 Life Sciences officer from 2001-2003, resigned the government job after qualifying the CSIR-UGC - NET and joined as JRF at National Institute Of Nutrition Hyderabad for Ph.D in 2002. Working as Assistant Professor at Osmania University in the Department Of Genetics since 2004 to till date, served as Head of the Department and as the Academic Co-ordinator when posted at UCW. Recipient of the prestigious BOYSCAST fellowship form DST to carry out advanced research at USA. Worked as a visiting scientist at University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha Nebraska, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Nebraska and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Research Interest
Her Current research is in the field of Cancer Genetics , Epigenetics , Angiogenesis and drug designing using bioinformatic tools.
Publications
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Verma RK, Gunda V, Pawar SC, Sudhakar YA. Extra cellular matrix derived metabolite regulates angiogenesis by FasL mediated apoptosis. PloS one. 2013 Dec 4;8(12):e80555.
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Sudhakar YA, Verma RK, Pawar SC. Type IV collagen α1-chain noncollagenous domain blocks MMP-2 activation both in-vitro and in-vivo. Scientific reports. 2014;4.
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Devi TP, Setti A, Srikanth S, Nallapeta S, Pawar SC, Rao JV. Method development and validation of paracetamol drug by RP-HPLC. Journal of Medical & Allied Sciences. 2013 Feb 28;3(1):8.