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Utkarsh Raj
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Dr Utkarsh Raj

Male Doctor of Philosophy
Associate Professor | Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
NIIT UNIVERSITY
Rajasthan
Expertise: Mathematical and Computational Biology
ORCID 0000-0001-5926-3436 Scopus 56460147700 ResearcherID XXX-0000-0000 Google Scholar JzEJ0SMAAAAJ
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58 Publications
1 Projects
1044 Scopus Citations
956 CrossRef
7 Years 11 Months Total Experience
Publications
58 Total
Articles
45
Chapters
2
Proceedings
11
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Professional Recognition

Selected as a Life-Member
2021
National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
Best Paper Presenter @ 25th International Conference on Researches in Science and Technology (ICRST), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2017
GRDS
Young Research Scholarship for attending the 15th International Conference on Healthcare and Life-Science Research (ICHLSR), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2017
GRDS
First award of 500 US dollars for being amongst the Authors of Excellent Papers
2016
Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences (Springer)
BRICPL Young Scientist Award @ ICET-2016
2016
Biotechnology Society of Nepal and Biologix Research and Innovation Centre Private Limited, India.
1st Prize in Oral Presentation at National Conference on Bioinformatics Panorama in Agriculture and Health (NCBPAH
2015
Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, SHUATS, Allahabad
1st Prize in Poster Presentation at National Conference on Lead Development and Drug Designing: Emerging Opportunities
2015
UIP in association with Indian Science Congress Association, Allahabad
MHRD-Fellowship
2014
IIIT-Allahabad
Young Achiever Award (ICMRP-2023
2023
Koshambi Foundation, India and Department of History and Culture, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agr
Chairperson-ICMRP 2024
2024
Koshambi Foundation, India and Department of History and Culture, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agr

Community & Membership

Academic Council, NIIT University
Member
Jan 2020
Standing Committee for Student Discipline, NIIT University
Member
Jan 2020
Institute Doctoral Committee for Biotech Area
Member
Jan 2019
Examination Committee, NIIT University
Member
Jan 2021
National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)
Life-time Member
Jan 2021
International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
Member
Jan 2021
European Biotechnology Network
Member
Jan 2022
Science Innovation Union
Member
Jan 2022
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Community Associate
Jan 2022
International Society for Development and Sustainability
Associate Member
Jan 2022
IEEE
Professional
Jan 2024
Bioclues
Life Member
Jan 2024

Personal Details

Doctor of Philosophy
2018
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Associate Professor
Jul 2025 – Present
NIIT UNIVERSITY | Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor
Oct 2018 – Jul 2025
NIIT UNIVERSITY | Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Medical and Health Sciences
Mathematical and Computational Biology

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Scholarly Work

Development and Use of DNABased Viral Gene Silencing Vector using modified satellite molecule assoc
Other
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Amount: ₹5 Lac
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Scholarly Publications

Identification of Dual Natural Inhibitors for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia by Virtual Screening, Molecular Dynamics Simulation and ADMET Analysis

Journal Article
Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences. Year: 2016. Volume: 8 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 241-252 .
Authors: Himansu Kumar; Utkarsh Raj; Swati Srivastava; Saurabh Gupta; Pritish K. Varadwaj
DOI 10.1007/s12539-015-0118-7 Crossref Crossref: 11 Scopus Scopus: 11

Flare-up of nipah infection in India

Letter
Year: 2018. Volume: 14 , Issue: 1 , Pages: 615-616 .
Scopus Scopus: 1

Drug target interplay: A network-based analysis of human diseases and the drug targets

Review
Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. Year: 2018. Volume: 18 , Issue: 13 , Pages: 1053-1061 .
Authors: Bhushan Jain; Utkarsh Raj; Pritish Kumar Varadwaj
DOI 10.2174/1568026618666180719160922 Crossref Crossref: 21 Scopus Scopus: 18

Systems biology: A powerful tool for drug development

Review
Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. Year: 2018. Volume: 18 , Issue: 20 , Pages: 1745-1754 .
Authors: Sneha Rai; Utkarsh Raj; Pritish Kumar Varadwaj
DOI 10.2174/1568026618666181025113226 Crossref Crossref: 18 Scopus Scopus: 17

In silico characterization of hypothetical proteins obtained from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv

Open Access
Journal Article
Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics. Year: 2017. Volume: 6 , Issue: 1 .
Authors: Utkarsh Raj; Aman Kumar Sharma; Imlimaong Aier; Pritish Kumar Varadwaj
DOI 10.1007/s13721-017-0147-8 Crossref Crossref: 7 Scopus Scopus: 6

Identification of novel dysregulated key genes in Breast cancer through high throughput ChIP-Seq data analysis

Open Access
Journal Article
Scientific Reports. Year: 2017. Volume: 7 , Issue: 1 .
Authors: Utkarsh Raj; Imlimaong Aier; Rahul Semwal; Pritish Kumar Varadwaj
DOI 10.1038/s41598-017-03534-x Crossref Crossref: 10 Scopus Scopus: 11

Pharmadoop: a tool for pharmacophore searching using Hadoop framework

Journal Article
Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics. Year: 2017. Volume: 6 , Issue: 1 .
Authors: Rahul Semwal; Imlimaong Aier; Utkarsh Raj; Pritish Kumar Varadwaj
DOI 10.1007/s13721-017-0161-x Crossref Crossref: 6 Scopus Scopus: 8

Molecular docking and dynamics simulation study of flavonoids as BET bromodomain inhibitors

Journal Article
Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. Year: 2017. Volume: 35 , Issue: 11 , Pages: 2351-2362 .
Authors: Utkarsh Raj; Himansu Kumar; Pritish Kumar Varadwaj
DOI 10.1080/07391102.2016.1217276 Crossref Crossref: 42 Scopus Scopus: 44
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