Brij Bhushan Mehta
1PGIMER, India
Biography
Brij Bhushan Mehta pursued his PhD from the Department of Immunopathology at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), India. His area of focus was to study pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis with project entitled “Modulation of extracellular matrix components relevant to rheumatoid arthritis”. During his PhD, he also worked on tumor biology project entitled “Correlation of full length variants and truncated fragments of osteopontin and tenascin c with histopathological characteristics of breast cancer”. Earlier, he worked on pathogenesis of malaria, as a Junior Research Fellow in project entitled “Identification and validation of new drug targets for selected pathogens”, at Institute of Microbial Technology (C.S.I.R.), Chandigarh, India for two years during February 2009 – March 2011. He also has seven years of research experience in biological science with various areas of focus like Immunology, Cell Biology, Protein re-engineering and Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Microbiology and this motivates him to pursue career in the field of biological sciences associated with human healthcare.