Scholars

A curated list of Nepali scholars and scientists around the world.

Biology and Medicine
Tara Sigdel
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Assistant Professor at University of California San Fransisco, School of Medicine, United States

Transplantation Genomics, Biomarker discovery

Biology and Medicine
Madhav Nepal
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Associate Professor at Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, United States

Plant genomics, Population genetics, Plant Systematics, Bioinformatics, Plant species identification and management (Biodiversity and Conservation), Stress responsive gene identification and characterization, Crop Improvement

Biology and Medicine
Ram P Maharjan
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Postdoctoral Researcher at School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia

Bacterial adaptation, Evolution, Genetics, Evolution Genome Sequencing, Comparative Genomics, Evolutionary Genetics, Adaptive Evolution

Biology and Medicine
Rajendra Bahadur Shahi
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Postdoctoral Researcher at Medical Oncology, Oncologisch Centrum UZ Brussel, Belgium

Cancer Genomics, Computational Oncogenomics

Biology and Medicine
Uttam Raj Bhandari
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Professor at Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Understand how tRNAs work in protein synthesis. Transfer RNAs, Protein Synthesis, Suppressor tRNAs, RNA-protein Interactions and Proteins Carrying Unnatural Amino Acids.

Biology and Medicine
Chirag Nepal
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Assistant Professor at Biotech Research and Innovation Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

transcription, translation, cancer genomics, RNA, DNA sequencing, Gene regulation, Next generation sequencing

Biology and Medicine
Laxmi Ghimire
Pediatrics
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of California, San Francisco, United States

Pediatric Cardiology

Biology and Medicine
Rajendra Pangeni
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Postdoctoral Researcher at Feinberg School of medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States

Genomics, gene expression, molecular genetics, tumor, epigenetics, DNA methylation on Glioblastoma (GBM), GBM stem cell biology

Biology and Medicine
Bijaya Singh
Microbiology and related Biotechnology
Lecturer at Research Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology, Nepal

Molecular Biology, Proteins, Genetics, Biotechnology

Biology and Medicine
Toya Nath Baral
Infectious Disease and Immunology
Industry Research Scientist at Merck, United States

PCR, Cell Culture, Western Blot Analysis, Cloning, Cancer Biology, Flow Cytometry, Parasitic Diseases, Antibody Engineering

Informatics, Computational Science and Engineering
Bishesh Khanal
Biomedical Engineering, Medical Imaging Informatics and Physics
Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College London, United Kingdom

Medical Imaging Informatics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Global Health

Biology and Medicine
Gyanu Lamichhane
Infectious Disease and Immunology
Associate Professor at Division of Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins University, United States

antibiotics, drug resistance, peptidoglycan, M. tuberculosis, non-tuberculous mycobacteria, genetic and biochemical approaches

Biology and Medicine
Anurag Adhikari
Infectious Disease and Immunology
PhD Candidate at Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Nepal

Infection, Immunology

Biology and Medicine
Buddha Basnyat
Infectious Disease and Immunology
Professor at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Nepal , Nepal

Infectious diseases, Mountain Medicine, Genetics, Epidemiology and Disease Control

Biology and Medicine
Sawan Jha
Molecular Biology and Genetics
PhD Candidate at Translational Cancer Biology Laboratory, University of Helsinki, Finland

PCR, Cell culture, Gel electrophoresis, western blot analysis

Biology and Medicine
Ashish Jha
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, United States

Genetic diversity, human demographic and evolutionary processes, population genetics

Biology and Medicine
Poojan Shrestha
Clinical Medicine
Clinical Researcher at International Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Non-vector transmission of flaviviruses, with implications for the Zika virus

Biology and Medicine
Rajiv Kumar Jha
Clinical Medicine
Clinical Researcher at Department of Clinical Medicine, Xi'an Medical University, China

PCR, Cancer Biology, Apoptosis, Pain Management, Cancer Diagnostics, Histopathology, Cancer Therapy

Biology and Medicine
Smith Giri
Clinical Medicine
Clinical Researcher at Yale Cancer Center, Yale University, United States

Hematology, Oncology

Biology and Medicine
Gopal Sapkota
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Professor at School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee,, United Kingdom

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Cancer, Proteomics

Biology and Medicine
Bikram Sharma
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Postdoctoral Researcher at Dept. of Biology, Stanford University, United States

Vascular Biology, Cardiovascular Development, Cancer Biology

Biology and Medicine
Roshan Lal Shrestha
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Postdoctoral Researcher at National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States

Cancer biology, Chromosomal instability leading to formation of tumor and development of genetic disorders, diagnostic and therapeutic tools targeting candidates responsible for tumorigenesis.