As a molecular biologist with more than 10 years of postdoctoral research experience, I have gained expertise in multi-disciplinary research. During my doctoral research at CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (India), I was engaged in drug target/ discovery against the filarial parasites and worked on drug screening projects to identify potent drugs against the parasite. After completing my doctoral studies in 2016, I developed an interest in cancer biology and joined the National Centre for Cell Sciences, India, as a DST-SERB Principal Investigator. Here, I identified and functionally characterized F-box proteins as tumor suppressors. Further, I moved to the National Cancer Institute/NIH in Maryland in 2019 to continue my research in cancer and gained experience in oncogene-induced senescence, focusing on the roles of transcription factors and tumor suppressors in inducing cytostatic activity and senescence. Since I have a special interest in drug discovery and translational science, I joined the UICentre of Drug Discovery as a biologist in 2022 and am privileged to use my drug discovery experience to develop and validate bioassays for targets and pathways of interest in collaboration with medicinal chemistry teams at UIC.