Junaid Ur Rehman

Junaid is a biologist with a diverse background in Biochemistry, Material Science, Molecular Biology, and Bioinformatics. After an MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Kashmir, he joined a structural biology group headed by Arati Ramesh at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India. He worked as an intern on a novel iron-binding riboswitch to repurpose it as an iron sensor for mammalian systems. He also worked in Jhunjhunwala’s laboratory, an immuno-engineering research group at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. The group aimed to delineate the consequences of foreign non-living particulate(s) interacting with phagocytic cells. Junaid was a Research Fellow (JRF) in the laboratory of Praveen Vemula at the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (InStem), NCBS, Bangalore, India, where the prime focus was studying the pharmacokinetics of drug-loaded hydrogel for downstream application in Vascularised Composite Allotransplantation (VCA). Junaid joined the University of Galway as a PhD student under the supervision of Abhay Pandit.