Sapna Sharma Author & Editor

Presently, Dr Sapna Sharma is working as an Assistant Professor at Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science, Lucknow, UP, India. She has completed her PhD (2007-2012) from CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. Dr. Sapna Sharma has vast academic experience as an Assistant Professor, at the Institute of Biosciences and Biotechnology, SRM University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Sharma obtained a Doctorate (Ph.D) with a focus on the role of probiotics in hepatotoxicity. She has completed her M.Phil (Microbiology) and M.Sc in Applied Microbiology (gold medalist) from Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India. More than eight years of post-PhD research experience in International and National Organizations. Worked as a Research Scientist (2015-2020) at the School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her area of focus during her tenure was Metabolic diseases and Gut axis: Role of Intestinal permeability during early disease onset.

Worked as a Senior Post-doc fellow (University of Gothenbörg, Gothenbörg, Sweden) in vaccine development against Myasthenia Gravis, a rare neurological disorder. Worked as a Post-doc fellow at the University of Chicago, IL, USA, studying the molecular mechanisms regulating anion exchangers, which play an important role in intestinal oxalate secretion in the presentation of hyperoxaluria.

Dr. Anand Prakash Singh is currently a Research Investigator at the Institute for Heart and Brain Health, University of Michigan, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. (2016) from Special Center for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. During his Ph.D. he identified a previously unknown mechanism of tight junction disruption by the Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) effector Map. More than 7 years of post-Ph.D. experience in National and International organizations.

1. Worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School,

USA in the area of exercise and cardiac regeneration.

2. Worked as Visiting Scholar at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Medical School, USA to

learn and perform single-cell RNA sequencing of heart samples.

3. Worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Vanderbilt

University Medical Center, USA in cancer therapy-induced cardiovascular toxicity.