About
Dr Smita Jain has more than 11 years of UG/PG teaching experience and had been associated with Department of Life Science, Sharda school of Biosciences and Technology from past 4 years. Prior to this employment, she worked as Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) in the Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi and was an active member in organizing Training cum hands-on workshop on Molecular biology and Immunobiology techniques at IHE. She has completed her MSc (Biotechnology), UGC-CSIR JRF-SRF scholar and PhD in Biochemistry from Delhi University. Her research domain includes the exploration of the neurodegenerative changes, cross talk between neurotransmitters and inflammatory pathways attributed to altered protein expression in various clinical disorders such as Migraine, Parkinsonism. She is also doing active research in identifying the potential benefits of metallic nanoparticles using green synthesis in amelioration of heavy metal induced toxicity. During her PhD tenure, she has identified the adverse toxicity of xenobiotics including pesticides and plant derived drugs with respect to its bioaccumulation and transport across the highly specific and impermeable blood-brain barrier, subsequent impact on the brain inhabited memory related proteins. She has published her research work in various peer reviewed national and international journals of high impact factor. She has also published few book chapters published nationally. She has co-authored a textbook on Medicinal Chemistry for undergraduate students. She has been awarded with an Institutional Research Grant by Research and Development Centre, Sharda University to explore the role of Vitamin D and memory neurotrophins in association with ferritin levels in migraine patients of North India. She has been monitoring the mapping of all academic work on university portal as Department ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) champion from past two years.