Principal Investigator

Dr. Nazia Chaudhary

DST Inspire Fellow

Honors and Recognitions

• DST INSPIRE FACULTY FELLOWSHIP (2022)
• Member of the Board of Studies (Zoology), Sophia college (2018-2021)
• Best poster presentation at 14th Indo – Australian Biotechnology conference (2018)
• JGEEBILS (2015)
• K.C. MAHINDRA HONOUR'S AWARD (2013)
• Sajjan Gupta Konark Memorial Award (2013)
• Saifee Education Aid programme scholarship for standing FIRST in the T.Y.B. Sc Microbiology. (2013)
• Ramidevi Murlidhar Jalan ROTARY MIDTOWN Best Student award. (2012-2013).
• Vaishno Endowment -Shanti Malhotra award for the BEST ALL ROUND STUDENT. (2012-2013)
• Mahindra Search for Talent Scholarship (2011-2012) and (2012-2013)
• Madholal Sindhoo Memorial Scholarship. (2012)
• Mrs. A. Verghese Prize for a constantly OUTSTANDING zoology student (2012).
• Mrs. Margaret Rebello Sequeira prize. (2010-2011)

Research Interests

• Therapy resistance.
• Role of Lipid metabolism (De novo lipogenesis, insulin resistance and fatty acid oxidation) in tumor progression and drug resistance.
• Ferroptosis in drug resistance, cellular metabolism, and tumor suppression.
• Cysteine metabolism induced nutrient dependency.
• Nutrient signaling and scavenging pathways.
• Signet ring cell carcinoma.
• PDX, PDO, and peritoneal metastasis model system development.