He received his Bachelor of Science from Panjab University in India in 1999 and a Master of Science from the Thapar University two years later. A Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Panjab University followed in 2006. From 2006 through 2007 Dr. Parashar was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. From 2007 through 2013 Dr. Parashar was a Research Associate at the New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers University, NJ. In 2014, he joined the faculty of Oral Biology Department in the School of Dental Medicine at Rutgers University. Research Summary: