Biography and academic profile
Dr. Kumar Nikhil has 15+ years of research experience in Cancer biology. He earned his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India (2015) and completed his postdoctoral training at Purdue University, USA (2015–2020), focusing on kinase signaling and drug target discovery in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. He has published 55+ peer-reviewed research articles in leading journals such as Nat. Commun., Mol Cancer, Cancer Lett, Br. J. Cancer, Biomark. Res, Cell Commun. Signal, J. Cell Sci etc. In 2020, he received the prestigious Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship award from DBT, Govt. of India. He joined KIIT University as an Assistant professor in March 2023. His research focuses on decoding Tumor Microenvironment for Next-Generation Cancer Therapeutics.
