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ABHINAV GROVER 1. Areas of specialization: Cancer Biology, Metabolic Engineering, Computational Biology 2. Address a. Correspondence: Dr. Abhinav Grover Assistant Professor School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi – 110067, India b. Permanent: H. No. 532, Sec-13, Urban Estate, Kurukshetra, Haryana – 136118 Mobile: +91-8130738032 Tel: +91-11-26738728 Fax: +91-11-26702040 Email: [email protected] [email protected] 3. Date of Birth: November 03, 1985 4. Academic Qualifications: (From Class 12th Standard onwards) Name of Percentage of Board/ Year of the Major Subjects taken Marks or University Passing Degree CGPA Physics, Chemistry, 12th Std. CBSE 2003 86.2% Maths B.Tech Indian Institute of Biochemical Engineering (Dual 2008 7.188/10 Technology Delhi and Biotechnology Degree) M.Tech Indian Institute of Biochemical Engineering (Dual 2008 7.220/10 Technology Delhi and Biotechnology Degree) Metabolic Engineering, Indian Institute of PhD 2011 Computational Biology, 8.625/10 Technology Delhi Plant Cell Technology 1 5. Details of Employment: Year Position Institution Aug 2013-Present Assistant Professor School of Biotechnology, JNU June 2013-July 2013 Assistant Professor School of Life Sciences, JNU DST INSPIRE Aug 2012-May 2013 School of Life Sciences, JNU Faculty Cluster Innovation Centre, University of June 2012-Aug 2012 Assistant Professor Delhi Senior Project Feb 2012-June 2012 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Scientist Aug 2011-Jan 2012 Project Scientist Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 6. Details of Professional Recognitions, Awards, and Fellowships received. 1) NASI Young Scientist Award 2014: For excellence in the field of Plant Biotechnology 2) INSA Medal for Young Scientists 2013: Country’s one of the prestigious Merit Award 3) INDUS Foundation’s Award for Research Excellence: For outstanding research (Nov 2013) 4) ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Award 2013: For outstanding PhD Thesis 5) Bioclues Innovation and Research Development (BIRD) Award (Nov 2012) 6) DST INSPIRE Faculty Award: For carrying independent research as a faculty (Aug 2012) 7) UGC Faculty Recharge Award: UGC-sponsored faculty position (Sep 2012) 8) APBioNet Travel Fellowship: For presenting paper at InCoB in Malaysia (Dec 2011) 9) Indo-Swiss Joint Research Fellowship: To carry PhD collaborative work (May 2011) 10) DAAD Fellowship: To pursue German PhD mobility program (March 2011) 11) INSA and CSIR travel award: To give a talk in PepCon conference in China (March 2011) 12) DBT travel award: To present paper in Keystone conference in USA (Feb 2011) 13) DST travel award: To present two papers in InCoB conference in Japan (Oct 2010) 14) Ministry of HRD Scholarship: Awarded for continued academic excellence (2007-2008) 15) GATE: Achieved distinction with an All India Rank 18 (2007) 16) French Embassy Scholarship: Awarded to pursue internship in France (2006) 17) Summer Research Award: IIT Delhi's one of the best merit Academic Award (2005) 18) IIT JEE: All India Rank 1390 (2003) 19) Physics Olympiad: Top 10% in National Exam conducted by Indian Asso. of Phy. (2003) 20) Chemistry Olympiad: Invited in the National event conducted by TIFR (2003) 21) Mathematics Olympiad: Represented state at National level (2001) 22) Society of Biological Chemists, India: Life2 Member 23) International Society for Computational Biology: Member 24) Indian Science Congress Association: Life Member 7. Full List of Publications Total No. of Research Publications: 45 Book chapters: 2 Cumulative Impact Factor: ~110 Citations: ~272 h-Index: 9 Peer-reviewed Publications in International Journals: (*Corresponding author) 1. Tyagi C, Bathke J, Goyal S, Fischer M, Dahse HM, Chacko S, Becker K, Grover A* (2015) Targeting the intersubunit cavity of Plasmodium falciparum glutathione reductase by a novel natural inhibitor: Computational and experimental evidence. International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology 61:72-80 2. Gupta A, Jain R, Wahi D, Goyal S, Jamal S and Grover A* (2015) Abrogation of AuroraA-TPX2 by novel natural inhibitors: Molecular dynamics based mechanistic analysis. Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction (Accepted) 3. Maindola P, Jamal S and Grover A* (2015) Cheminformatics based machine learning models for AMA1-RON2 abrogators for inhibiting Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte invasion. Molecular Informatics (Accepted) 4. Wahi D, Jamal S, Goyal S, Singh S, Jain R, Rana P and Grover A* (2015) Cheminformatics models based on machine learning approaches for design of USP1/UAF1 abrogators as anticancer agents. Systems and Synthetic Biology DOI 10.1007/s11693-015-9162-1 5. Vats C, Gupta A, Dhanjal JK, Goyal S, Bharadvaja N and Grover A* (2015) Mechanistic analysis elucidating the relationship between Lys96 mutation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pyrazinamidase enzyme and pyrazinamide susceptibility. BMC Genomics 16(S2):S14. 6. Gupta A, Jamal S, Goyal S, Jain R, Wahi D and Grover A* (2015) Structural studies on molecular mechanisms of Nelfinavir resistance caused by non-active site mutation V77I in HIV-1 protease. BMC Bioinformatics (Accepted). 7. Dhanjal JK, Sharma S, Grover A and Das A* (2015) Use of ligand based pharmacophore modeling and docking approach to find novel acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for treating Alzheimer’s. Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy 71:146-152 8. Goyal S, Jamal S, Shanker A and Grover A* (2015) Structural investigations of T854A mutation in EGFR and identification of novel inhibitors using structure activity relationships. BMC Genomics (Accepted) 9. Raj N, Helen A, Manoj N, Harish G, Thomas V, Singh S, Sehrawat S, Seth S, Nair AS, Grover A and Dhar PK* (2015) In silico study of peptide inhibitors against BACE 1 Systems and Synthetic Biology DOI 10.1007/s11693-015-9169-7 10. Dhanjal JK, Grover S, Sharma S, Singh AK and Grover A* (2014) Structural insights into mode of actions of novel natural Mycobacterium protein tyrosine phosphatase B inhibitors. BMC Genomics 15(S1):S3 3 11. Tyagi C, Gupta A, Goyal S, Dhanjal JK and Grover A* (2014) Fragment based group QSAR and molecular dynamics mechanistic studies on arylthioindole derivatives targeting the α-β interfacial site of human tubulin. BMC Genomics 15(S7):S6 12. Vats C, Dhanjal JK, Goyal S, Bharadvaja N and Grover A* (2014) Computational design of novel flavonoid analogues as potential AChE inhibitors: analysis using group- based QSAR, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations. Structural Chemistry doi: 10.1007/s11224-014-0494-3 13. Goyal S, Dhanjal JK, Tyagi C, Goyal M and Grover A* (2014) Novel fragment-based QSAR modelling and combinatorial design of pyrazole derived CRK3 inhibitors as potent anti-leishmanials. Chemical Biology and Drug Design 84(1):54-62 14. Goyal S, Grover S, Dhanjal JK, Goyal M, Tyagi C, Chacko S and Grover A* (2014) Mechanistic insights into mode of actions of novel oligopeptidase B inhibitors for combating leishmaniasis. Journal of Molecular Modeling 20(3):2099 15. Soni S, Tyagi C, Grover A* and Goswami A* (2014) Molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulations based structural analysis of the SG2NA protein variants. BMC Research Notes 7:446 16. Goyal M, Dhanjal JK, Goyal S, Tyagi C, Hamid R and Grover A* (2014) Development of dual inhibitors against Alzheimer’s disease using fragment-based QSAR and molecular docking. Biomed Research International Article ID 979606 17. Grover S, Dhanjal JK, Goyal S, Grover A and Sundar D (2014) Computational identification of novel natural inhibitors of glucagon receptor for checking type II diabetes mellitus. BMC Bioinformatics 15(S16):S3 18. Dhanjal JK, Grover S, Paruthi P, Sharma S and Grover A* (2014) Mechanistic insights into mode of action of a potent natural antagonist of orexin receptor-1 by means of high throughput screening and molecular dynamics simulations. Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening 17(2):124-31 19. Dhanjal JK, Nigam N, Sharma S, Chaudhary A, Kaul SC, Grover A*, Wadhwa R* (2014) Embelin inhibits TNF-alpha converting enzyme and cancer cell metastasis: molecular dynamics and experimental evidence. BMC Cancer 14:775 20. Patel K, Tyagi C, Goyal S, Dhanjal JK, Bharadvaja N, Grover A* (2014) Curcumin- based IKKβ inhibiting anticancer lead design using novel fragment based group QSAR modeling. Medicinal Chemistry Research DOI 10.1007/s00044-014-1274-8 21. Dhanjal JK, Goyal S, Sharma S, Hamid R and Grover A*. (2013) Mechanistic insights into mode of action of potent natural antagonists of BACE-1 for checking Alzheimer’s plaque pathology. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 443(3):1054-9 22. Goyal M, Grover S, Dhanjal JK, Goyal S, Tyagi C and Grover A* (2013) Molecular modeling studies on flavonoid derivatives as dual site inhibitors of human acetyl cholinesterase using 3D-QSAR, pharmacophore and high throughput screening approaches. Medicinal Chemistry Research 23(4):2122-2132 4 23. Goyal M, Grover S, Dhanjal JK, Goyal S, Tyagi S, Chacko S and Abhinav Grover* (2013) Novel natural structure corrector of ApoE4 for checking Alzheimer's disease. Benefits from high throughput screening and molecular dynamics simulations. Biomed Research International, Article ID 620793 doi:10.1155/2013/620793 24. Tyagi C, Grover S, Dhanjal JK, Goyal S, Goyal M and Grover A* (2013) Mechanistic insights into mode of action of novel natural cathepsin L inhibitors. BMC Genomics 14(S8):S10 25. Saxena N, Katiyar SP, Liu Y, Grover A et al. (2013) Molecular interactions of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL with mortalin: identification and functional characterization. Bioscience reports 33(5):797-806 26. Grover A et al. (2013) Enhanced withanolide production by overexpression of squalene synthase in Withania somnifera. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 115(6):680-705 27. Dhiman H, Dhanjal JK, Sharma S, Chacko S and Grover A* (2013) Resisting resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis naturally: Mechanistic insights into the inhibition of the parasite's sole signal peptidase Leader peptidase B. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 433(4):552-7 28. Grover A et al. (2012) Ashwagandha derived withanone targets TPX2-Aurora A complex: Computational and experimental evidence to its anticancer activity. Plos One 7(1) e30890 29. Grover A et al.