Research Scientist Human Genetics

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APPOINTMENTS

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Women’s Biomedical Research Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA (Jul 2023 to Present). Project: Cervicovaginal microbiome-mediated epigenetic reprogramming and therapeutics

• Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for NanoBiotechnology Research, Department of Biological Sciences, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL 36104, USA (Nov 2022 to Jun 2023). Project: Immunosurveillance of HSV infection and biotherapeutics

• Senior Research Fellow at Molecular & Human Genetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, U.P. 226007, India (2019- 2022).

• Senior Project Fellow at Molecular & Human Genetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, U.P. 226007, India (2016- 2018).

• Scientific Officer at Analytical Process & Technology Laboratory, Research & Development Division, Sanofi Healthcare India Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad (T.S.), India (2014- 2015). EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Molecular & Human Genetics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, awarded in Dec 2022. Thesis title: Genetic and epigenetic alterations in DNA Repair genes and their correlation with treatment outcome in cervical cancer. Supervision: Prof. Rajnikant Mishra, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Prof. Monisha Banerjee, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India.

• M.Sc. in Molecular and Human Genetics from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India with 62.20% in 2014. Master thesis entitled: Association of AQP5 Gene Polymorphism with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in North Indian Population from Molecular & Human Genetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow (U. P.), India (Mar-Jun, 2014).

• B.Sc. in Biotechnology from GICTS College, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India with 74.60% in 2012. Bachelor dissertation title: Production of milk and analysis of milk and milk products from Sanchi Dugdh(milk) Sangh, Gwalior, India (Oct-Dec, 2011).

CERTIFICATIONS

• Advanced Western Blotting Course, Bio-Rad Academy (Certificate ID: ntyhj4ofdu).

• Focus on Peer Review, Nature Masterclasses, Nature Research.

• Project Management Foundations - National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), Credential ID 140940.

• National Diabetes Educator - Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Education Academy, Credential ID NDEP 2020-21/PC/1400 (2020- 21).

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Functional and mechanical significance of epigenetic reprogramming (alterations) in disease biology. AWARDS/RECOGNITION/INVITED TALKS

• Editorial Contribution Award 2025 by Springer Nature, 2025

• STAR (Strive to Achieve Relationships) Recognition Award by Mount Sinai Health System, New York, USA 2023.

• New Lab Research Grant Award by Bon Opus Biosciences LLC, Millburn, New Jersey, USA 2023.

• Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India (Grant No. 45/09/2019-HUM/BMS) for 3 years (2019-2022).

• Best Oral Presentation Award in National Seminar cum Workshop on Computational Biology: An Integrated Approach for Advance Research. Organized by Institute of Development of Advanced Computing, ONGC Centre of Advanced Studies (OCAS), University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India, 22-23 March 2022.

• Best e-Poster Presentation Award in International e-Conference on ‘Recent Trends in Health and Diseases. Organized by Institute of Advanced Molecular Genetics & Infectious Diseases (IAMGID), OCAS in collaboration with Department of Zoology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India, 19-21 January 2022.

• Uddeepan Award 2020-21 and 2019-20 (Best Research Paper Award 2019-20 and 2020-21) by Research Cell, University of Lucknow, Lucknow – 226007, India.

Atar Singh Kushwah, M.S., Ph.D.

Women’s Biomedical Research Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York 10029, USA

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COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS

• Member - The New York Academy of Sciences (2024- till date)

• Associate Member - American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), USA (myAACR - 1270441).

• Life member - Indian Society of Human Genetics (ISHG), India (Member id: L/2049/2022).

• Life member - Global Indian Scientists & Technocrats Forum (GIST) US-Chapter (Member id: 70367673).

• Life member - Vijnana Bharati (Vigyan Bharti-VIBHA), India (04/09/2023).

• Student member - International Association of Oncology (IAO) (Membership id: SM60597483) (2018-23).

• Editorial board member and Peer reviewer – Cell, Springer Nature, Elsevier, MDPI, BMCs, and Willey journals PUBLICATIONS

1. Vats P, Saini C, Baweja B, Srivastava SK, Kumar A, Kushwah AS, Nema R. Aurora Kinases Signaling in Cancer: From Molecular Perception to Targeted Therapies. Molecular Cancer 2025; 24:180. (Review). 2. Kushwah AS, Gupta MK, Srivastava K, Banerjee M. Cytokine gene variants as Risk predictors and Prognostic biomarkers for cervix cancer: a revisit. Current Cancer Therapy Reviews 2025; 21:e15733947351277. (Review) 3. Masood S*, Kushwah AS*, Anshika Yadav A, Singh P, Banerjee B. A Study on Socio-demographic-based Knowledge and Awareness for Cervical Cancer among Women from Uttar Pradesh, India. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health 2024; 30:101825. (Research)

4. Zaman N*, Kushwah AS*, Badriprasad A, Chakraborty G. Unravelling the Molecular Basis of PARP Inhibitor Resistance in Prostate Cancer with Homologous Recombination Repair Deficiency. International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology 2024; 389:257-301. (Review)

5. Shukla AS*, Shamsad A*, Kushwah AS*, Singh S, Usman K, Banerjee M. CD36 gene variant rs1761667(G/A) as a biomarker in obese type 2 diabetes mellitus cases. Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics 2024; 25(9): 1-8.

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6. Kushwah AS, Masood S, Rajnikant Mishra, Banerjee M. Genetic and epigenetic alterations in DNA repair genes and treatment outcome of chemoradiotherapy in cervical cancer. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology 2023; 194:104240. (Review)

7. Kushwah AS, Mishra R, Srivastava K, Banerjee M. Impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection on treatment outcome of concomitant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in cervical cancer. Current Cancer Therapy Review 2023; 20(3):320- 326. (Research)

8. Gupta MK*, Kushwah AS*, Singh R, Srivastava K, Banerjee M. Genetic and epigenetic alterations in MGMT gene and correlation with concomitant-chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in cervical cancer. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology (2023) 149:15159–15170. (Research)

9. Shukla N, Kumari S, Verma P, Kushwah AS, Banerjee M, Sankhwar SN, Srivastava A, Ansari MS, Gautam NK. Genotypic analysis of COL4A1 gene in diabetic nephropathy and type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: A comparative genetic study. DNA and Cell Biology 2023; 42(9):541-547. (Research) 10. Kushwah AS, Srivastava K, Banerjee M. Differential expression of DNA repair genes and treatment outcome of chemoradiotherapy in cervical cancer. Gene 2023; 868:147389. (Research) 11. Shamsad A, Kushwah AS, Singh R, Banerjee M. Pharmaco-epi-genetic and patho-physiology of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM): An overview. Health Sciences Review 2023; 7:100086. (Review) 12. Kushwah AS, Vats P, Usman K, Banerjee M. Risk prediction of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Indian families using antioxidant gene variants, Current Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine 2022; 19(2): 100-111.

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13. Kushwah AS, Mishra R, Srivastava K, Mishra S, Banerjee M. Anthro-demographic, clinico-pathological and biochemical risk factors in cervical cancer. International Journal of Health Sciences 2022; 6(S8): 3641-3653. (Research) 14. Kushwah AS, Mishra R, Shukla AK, Banerjee M. Combinatorial therapy of Cynodon dactylon and metformin with Cisplatin in cervical cancer. Journal of Scientific Research 2021; 66(4):35-41. (Review) 15. Kaushik M, Joshi RC, Kushwah AS, Gupta MK, Banerjee M, Burget R, Dutta MK. Cytokine gene variants and sociodemographic characteristics as predictors of cervical cancer: a machine learning approach. Computers in Biology and Medicine 2021; 134:104559. (Research)

16. Kushwah AS, Gupta MK, Singh R, Banerjee M. Cytokine gene variants and treatment outcome of cisplatin-based concomitant chemoradiotherapy in cervical cancer. British Journal of Biomedical Science 2020; 77(2):81-86. (Research) 17. Gupta MK, Kushwah AS, Singh R, Banerjee M. Genotypic analysis of XRCC4 and susceptibility to cervical cancer. British Journal of Biomedical Science 2020; 77(1):7-12. (Research) 18. Banerjee M, Vats P, Kushwah AS, Srivastava N. Interaction of antioxidant gene variants and susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus. British Journal of Biomedical Science 2019; 76(4):166-171. (Research) CURRICULUM VITAE

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19. Singh S, Mishra G, Kushwah AS, Banerjee M. Evidence of genetic heterogeneity in communities from Uttar Pradesh using IL-1RN gene polymorphism. International Journal of Recent Scientific Research 2018; 9(1): 234**-*****.

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20. Vats P, Kushwah AS, Banerjee M. Association of antioxidant gene variants with type 2 diabetes mellitus in different ethnic groups. European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2017; 4(9): 290-298. (Review) BOOK CHAPTERS

21. Kushwah AS, Masood S, Shamsad A, Bid HK, Banerjee M. Qidwai Tabish, Interaction of Coronavirus Disease 2019 with other Infectious and Systemic Diseases. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Florida USA, 2023. Chapter 7: Immuno-Oncological Challenge of COVID-19 in Cancer Care and Prognosis. (ISBN: 978**********) 22. Banerjee M, Kushwah AS. Lowell T. Duncan, Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 26. Nova Science Publishers Inc. New York USA, 2020. Chapter 3: Role of Interleukin 6 (IL-6) and Genetic Variants in Complex Diseases. (ISBN: 978-1-53618-605-5)

23. Kushwah AS, Banerjee M. Igor Azevedo Silva, Glutathione S-Transferases: Structure, Functions and Clinical Aspects. 1st ed. Nova Science Publishers Inc. New York USA, 2020. Chapter 2: Genetics of Glutathione S-transferase in complex diseases. (ISBN: 978-1-53618-188-3)

24. Masood S, Banerjee Banerjee, Kushwah AS*. Singh AK, Chaturvedi VK, Singh SK, Singh J, Nanogels: Fundamentals to Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications. 1st Ed. Elsevier Health Sciences; 2025. Chapter 10: Recent Advances in Nanogel Technology for Biomedical Application (ISBN: 978**********). (in Press) 25. Kushwah AS*, Masood S, Sharad P, Nema R Banerjee M. Awasthi R, Singh SK, Singh AK, Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-based Nanocarriers. 1st Ed. Elsevier Health Sciences; 2025. Chapter 14: Recent advances in porous silicon-based technology for biomedical applications. (ISBN: 978*********) (in Press) Articles in Communication

1. Kushwah AS, Srivastava K, Banerjee M. Antioxidant genes variant’s effects on gene expression and their correlation with DNA damage and cisplatin-based chemotherapy and radiation therapy in cervical cancer. Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2025.

2. Kushwah AS, Srivastava K, Banerjee M. Genetic and epigenetic alreations in hOGG1 gene and their association with chemoradiotherapy in Cervical cancer. Cancer Letters, 2025. 3. Kushwah AS, Srivastava K, Banerjee M. Genetic and epigenetic alterations in the CD36 gene and their association with concomitant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) outcomes in cervical cancer. European Journal of Cancer, 2025. 4. Kushwah AS, and Banerjee M. Nitric Oxide Synthase Isoforms: Mechanistic Insights and Genetic Associations in Diabetes Mellitus and related complications. Biomedicines 2024. 5. Vats P, Baweja B, Saini C, Kushwah AS, Kumar A, Srivastava SK, Nema R. CRISPR-Cas theranostic systems with Artificial Intelligence for next-generation biosensing and genetic engineering. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2025.

6. Masood S, Sharad P, Kushwah AS, Masood O, Banerjee M. Therapeutic and Translational Potential of miRNA in HPV- Mediated Cervical Cancer. Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, 2025. 7. Masood S, Kushwah AS, Kirti Srivastava K, Banerjee M. Association of CDH1 Gene Variant C>A (rs16260) with Expression and Treatment Outcomes in Cervical Cancer Patients Receiving Chemoradiotherapy. Gene Reports, 2025. 8. Sengar N, Yadav S, Kushwah AS, Vats P, Banerjee M, Dutta MK. Application of Machine Learning in Risk Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) using Antioxidant Gene Variants. Biosystems, 2025. Articles presented in Conferences/Symposia/CMEs

1. XRCC4 gene as a Prognostic biomarker for Cervical Cancer: A Pharmaco-Epi-genetic Study. 36th All India Congress of Zoology and International Conference on Innovations in Life Sciences for Sustainable Development: Biodiversity, Environment, Health and Food Security-2025(April 24-26th, 2025) at University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India (Invited). 2. OGG1 gene as a Prognostic Biomarker for Cervix Carcinoma: A Molecular Genetic Approach. International Conference on Applications of Molecular Genetics in Disease Diagnostics (Feb 15-18, 2023) at University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India (Invited).

3. Genotypic analysis of XRCC2 gene in cervical cancer patients. 48th Annual Conference of Indian Immunology Society on Infections, Vaccines & Immuno-Innovations for Human Health (Jul 8-9, 2022) at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (Poster).

4. Impact of rs25487 gene variant of XRCC1 on gene expression and DNA damage in cervical cancer. International Conference on Advances in Cancer Biology, Prevention & Therapy (ICACBPT-2022) (May 24-25, 2022) at Shri Ram Swaroop Memorial University, India (Oral talk).

5. Genetics of Interleukin 6 (IL-6) and Complex Diseases. National Seminar cum Workshop on Computational Biology: An Integrated Approach for Advance Research (Mar 21-22, 2022) at University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India (Oral talk) CURRICULUM VITAE

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6. Potential of Cynodon dactylon and metformin in combinatorial therapy with cisplatin in cervical cancer. National Conference & Hands-on Workshop on Experimental and Public Health (Mar 7-9, 2022) at University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India (Oral talk).

7. Dyslipidaemia, Renal dysfunction, and Hyperuricemia associated Cervical Carcinoma: A Cross-sectional study. International e-Conference on Recent Trends in Health and Diseases (Jan 19-21, 2022) at University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India (Oral talk).

8. High level of promoter methylation in MGMT gene and cervical cancer. International Conference on Current Perspectives of Biochemistry in Health and Diseases (Jan 11-12, 2020) at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

(Poster).

9. Impact of cytokine gene variants on treatment outcome of cisplatin-based chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in cervical cancer. CENTRAL ZONE-ACBICON-2019: Recent trends in Biomedical Research: Advances and Challenges, Indian Academy of Biomedical Sciences (Feb 2-3, 2019) at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow (U.P.), India (Oral talk). 10. Genetic variants and their association with demography and passive smoking in cervical cancer. International Conference on Impact of environment on women’s health (Nov 1-Dec 1, 2017), Organized by National Institute of Environment Health Sciences, North Carolina, USA along with Amity University, Lucknow (U.P.), India (Poster). 11. Proteomics approach for cervical cancer diagnostics. 42th Post graduate Research Symposium and workshop (Apr 7-8, 2017) at Sanjay Gandhi Post graduate Institute of Medical sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow (U.P.), India (Poster). 12. IL-1RN gene variants and cervical cancer risk: A North Indian study. International Conference on Updates in Cancer Prevention and Research (Feb 14-16, 2017) at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow (U.P.), India

(Poster).

13. XRCC4 gene variants and cervical cancer risk: A North Indian study. National seminar on Paradigm Shifts in Biochemistry: Emerging Trends and New Vistas (Sept 10, 2016) at University of Lucknow, Lucknow (U.P.), India

(Poster).

RESEARCH INDEX

Citations (Google Scholar) (Since 2018): 169 h-index: 6 i10-index: 6 Publication: Total- 25 (Research papers- 13; Review papers-7; Book Chapter- 05) (Communicated: 08) Edited Books: 02 Abstract Books Edited (01 International and 01 National conference) Conferences attended: >25

Paper Presentation at Conference: 24 (Oral – 10; Poster – 12; Invited - 02) Student supervised: 04 (PG Student)

Date: 06/18/2025 Place: New York, USA

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