Postgraduate
Junaid Ur Rehman
Doctoral Candidate
J.UrRehman1
universityofgalway.ie
Junaid is biologist with a diverse background of Biochemistry, Material Sciences, Molecular Biology, and Bioinformatics. He has experience of various complex projects with forward planning, organization, and consistent techniques. After a Msc in Biochemistry from the University of Kashmir, he joined a structural biology group headed by Dr. Arati Ramesh at the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India.
He worked as an intern on a novel iron-binding riboswitch that was already established in the lab, to repurpose it as an iron sensor for mammalian systems. He also worked in Dr. 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, a relatively less studied area of immunobiology. Prior to joining the University of Galway as a graduate student, Junaid was working as Research Fellow (JRF) in the laboratory of Dr. 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). He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Galway.