Academic Credentials and Professional Summary

 Academic Credentials:

Year	Description
2006–2012	PhD. (Biotechnology); ICGEB, New Delhi.
2002–2004	M.Sc. (Biotechnology); All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
1999-2002	B.Sc. (Microbiology); University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. (First division). Bachelor of Science (H) Microbiology

 Professional Summary:

Associate Professor at Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (September 2022 - Till Date)

Assistant Professor at Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi , India (September 2018 - September 2022):

I, Dr Sumit Rathore an Associate Professor at Department of Biotechnology, AIIMS, New Delhi is a trained Parasitologist and Molecular Biologist. I have obtained my PhD from malaria Group ICGEB, New Delhi and have almost 13 years of experience working in the field of malaria Biology at various places e.g. University of California, San Francisco, AIIMS. My strength includes parasitology, protein protein interaction proteases and proteomics. Till date I have Published 19 research papers in peer review international journals including Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communication and Molecular Microbiology as First and corresponding author. I have recently finished one of the Grants from DST, India (INSA INSPRE faculty award, Amount: 35 lakhs Duration 2013-2018) in which his work has shed light on the role of cellular homeostasis in survival of Plasmodium falciparum (Rathore et al 2017) using proteomics. I hae recently published another important study in Journal of Biological Chemistry, in which he has identified a receptor for P. vivax attachment (Rathore et al 2018). I am currently running an Extramural grant from ICMR (Amount 65 lakhs; Duration 2019-2022) and two Intramural grants (10 lakhs each) from AIIMS. My group has also worked on identification of circulating miRNA patterns in Tuberculosis patients, in order to identify the biomarker for differentiation between responders and non-responders to drug treatment (Bill and Gates Grand challenge Award 2017).

INSA INSPIRE FACULTY Fellow at Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi , India (June 2013- December 2017):

My research interest deals with understanding of organelle biogenesis in Plasmodium falciparum: involving role of autophagy. Understanding the mechanism of organelle biogenesis in parasite causing malaria, will allow us to develop better anti –malarial strategies.

Post-Doctoral fellow at Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, USA (March 2012 - May 2013):

My project involved to identify drug targets of small molecule inhibitors against Plasmodium Falciparum at the Lab of Prof Phillip J Rosenthal. My work involved generating transgenic Plasmodium and Toxoplasma Parasites in order to understand the role of key proteins in parasite survival.