She received her M.S. from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India with a double major in Biology and Physics. She earned Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her postdoctoral fellowship focused in diverse molecular and structural biology projects in University of Florida and University of Maryland. She is a biochemist with training in cell biology. Her postdoctoral research focused on DNA repair pathways and their relevance in cancer. Her present research work focuses on the effect of carcinogens on lung epithelial cell models and integrates strongly the student training component to promote the model of research based learning in community college.