Co-Director of Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Graduate Program; James J. Maguire Jr. Professor of Spine Research, Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University.

His research focus mainly on studying the mechanisms by which nucleus pulposus cells of the intervertebral disc adapt to avascular (hypoxic) and osmotically compromising environment. Another major research interest is to device tissue-engineering based strategies for intervertebral disc regeneration. Expertise on cell-scaffold interactions at molecular level and chitosan based scaffolds.

He holds a PhD from National Center for Cell Science. He completed MTech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT): Bombay, MSc in Biochemistry from University of Pune, and a Post Doc Fellowship from Harvard University, Boston.