* Dr. Kumar obtained his Master degree in Biotechnology (in year 1994) from Guru Nanak Dev
   University Amritsar. He received a Gold Medal in recognition of his achievement during master
   degree. Later on he completed his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology (in year 1999) from
   Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. His doctoral
   thesis title was ‘Signalling events leading to T-cell activation: proliferation and its modulation by
   Amphotericin B’

* He received ‘Institut National de la Santè et de la Recherche Médicale’ (INSERM) fellowship for
   foreign scientists in year 2000 to further continue his research in the laboratory of Prof. Pierrer
   Ferrier at Centre d’Immunologie Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Marseille, France. During his stay at
   CIML he worked in the field of T-cell development and studied the regulation of somatic
   recombination in T-cell receptor (TCR) gene.

* Later on he worked as Post doctoral fellow (from year 2000-2003) at Colorado State University
   (CSU), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA and Research Fellow on full time equivalent (FTE) position
   (from year 2003 to 2008) at National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA in the
   laboratory of Dr. Carolina Barillas-Mury. During his stay at CSU and NIH he studied the
   regulation of Plasmodium (malaria parasite) development by mosquito innate immunity. He was
   also a visiting fellow (in year 2002) in the laboratory of Prof. Fotis Kafatos at European
   Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany. .                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Aug 2016 – Present           Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Ch. Bansi Lal University (CBLU), Bhiwani, Haryana, India

Feb 2013 – Aug 2016        Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India.

June 2008 – Jan 2013       Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India.

Dec 2003 – May 2008         Post doctorate Research Fellow (a Federal Full time equivalent, FTE, position), Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, Maryland, USA.

Dec 2000 – Nov 2003         Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.