Smita C. Pawar Assistant Professor (2004 - till date), former Head, Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, has more than eight years of experience in teaching, research and University administration. She is the recipient of CSIR/NET/UGC-JRF (2003) fellowship from Government of India. She worked in a reputed national research ICMR Institute “National Institute of Nutrition” as Junior Research Fellow (2003-2004). She was awarded the DST-ITS grant to present a research article in an international conference “BDC 2010”- at Sydney, Australia. She has been awarded the BOYSCAST FELLOWSHIP by DST, Government of India for the year 2011-2012. She is currently Visiting Scientist at Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA and Cell Signaling, Retinal and Angiogenesis Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE 68131, USA. She is research supervisor and has two ongoing major research grants funded by UGC and DBT. Smita C. Pawar Assistant Professor (2004 - till date), former Head, Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, has more than eight years of experience in teaching, research and University administration. She is the recipient of CSIR/NET/UGC-JRF (2003) fellowship from Government of India. She worked in a reputed national research ICMR Institute “National Institute of Nutrition” as Junior Research Fellow (2003-2004). She was awarded the DST-ITS grant to present a research article in an international conference “BDC 2010”- at Sydney, Australia. She has been awarded the BOYSCAST FELLOWSHIP by DST, Government of India for the year 2011-2012. She is currently Visiting Scientist at Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA and Cell Signaling, Retinal and Angiogenesis Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE 68131, USA. She is research supervisor and has two ongoing major research grants funded by UGC and DBT.

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