Dr. Uma Dhawan

Professor

Email Address : uma.dhawan@bcas.du.ac.in

Address :

  • BSc (Hons) Zoology, 1998, University of Delhi
  • MSc (Biomedical Science), 2000, University of Delhi
  • PhD (Biomedical Science), 2005, CSIR-IGIB and University of Delhi

        

  • Department of Biomedical Science, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi, 2005 onwards
  • Department of Pharmacology and Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, USA, UGC Raman Fellow, 2016-2017

1. Founding member of INSA Women Associates (IWA) (2025).
2. INSA Teachers Award (2021), Indian National Science Academy.
3. SERS Fellow Award (2019), iCiAsT-2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
4. Early Career Research Award (2017) by SERB-DST, Government of India.
5. UGC-Raman Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research (2015-16), UGC, Government of India.
6. Vice Chancellor’s Appreciation Award for the project “Exploring the Involvement of Mechanotransduction Network in Inter-individual Differences through Ayurgenomics Approach” (2015), University of Delhi.
7. Best Display Award for the DU Innovation project titled “Genetic curation of ataxia phonemes for establishment of predictive and rapid diagnostic paradigm” (2015), University of Delhi.
8. Universitas 21 Fellowship, University of Delhi under Faculty Training Program (2010-2011).
9. Best Poster Presentation, 2nd National Conference of Biotechnology Society of India, BioTech 2004 Challenges and Opportunities, CSIR-IGIB, Delhi, (October 2004).
10. CSIR-UGC Senior Research Fellowship (2002-05) and Junior Research Fellowship (2000-02).

  • Yadav, A., & Dhawan, U*. (2026). SpecQuality: A Tool for Reliable Spectral Quality Assessment in Proteomics and Proteogenomics. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 37(1), 42–54. https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.5c00168
  • Khurana, S., Gourie-Devi, M*., Vats, Y., Verma, S., Ganguly, N. K., Chugh, P., Sharma, A., Khanna, L., Dhawan, U*., & Taneja, V*. (2026). Clinical and genetic determinants of survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients from North India. Brain communications, 8(1), fcag003. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcag003
  • Sangwan, N., Bothra, A., Pomerantsev, A. P., Gangwal, A., Fattah, R., Moayeri, M., Ma, Q., Ganesan, S., Keshavam, C. C., Baweja, R., Dhawan, U*., Leppla, S. H*., & Singh, Y*. (2026). A novel AAA+ ATPase required for sporulation and stress response in Bacillus anthracis. Journal of bacteriology, e0051825. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00518-25
  • Verma, N., Mahato, M., Gautam, H. K., Dhawan, U*., & Kumar, P*. (2026). Synthesis and evaluation of chitosan-PHMB conjugates as efficient antibacterial agents. International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials, 75(4), 475–483. https://doi.org/10.1080/00914037.2025.2553760
  • Verma, N., Mahato, M., Dhawan, U*., & Kumar, P*. (2025). Exploring tunable characteristics of anthranilic acid in peptide-based nanostructures. Journal of Materials Research, 40(18), 2615–2626. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-025-01683-8
  • Verma, N., Kumar, P. *, & Dhawan, U*. (2025). Harnessing micellar cationic nicotinamide conjugates as gene delivery and antiproliferative agents. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 113, 107331- 107343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2025.107331
  • Kang, A. K., Dhawan, U*., & Mallick, B. N*. (2025). Association between epigenetic mark 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and brain pathophysiology. Brain research, 1863, 149755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2025.149755
  • Sangwan, N., Gangwal, A., Jain, P., Langtso, C., Srivastava, S., Dhawan, U*., Baweja, R*., & Singh, Y. (2025). Anthrax: Transmission, Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment. Toxins, 17(2), 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins17020056
  • Saini, S., Agarwal, M., Pradhan, A., Pareek, S., Singh, A. K., Dhawan, G., Dhawan, U*., & Kumar, Y*. (2023). Exploring the role of framework mutations in enabling breadth of a cross-reactive antibody (CR3022) against the SARS-CoV-2 RBD and its variants of concern. Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics, 41(6), 2341–2354. https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2022.2030800
  • Dhawan, G., Singh, I., Dhawan, U*., & Kumar, P*. (2021). Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoselenium: A Step-by-Step Guide for Undergraduate Students. Journal of Chemical Education, 98(9), 2982-2989. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01467
  • Rawat, A., Khurana, S., Verma, S., Dhawan, U., Gourie-Devi, M., Ganguly, N. K., & Taneja, V. (2025). Insights from meta-analysis and experimental validation identify exosomal miR-146a-5p as a potential biomarker for sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Scientific reports, 15(1), 33846. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04322-8
  • Khurana, S., Vats, A., Gourie-Devi, M., Sharma, A., Verma, S., Faruq, M., Dhawan, U., & Taneja, V. (2023). Clinical and Genetic Analysis of A Father-Son Duo with Monomelic Amyotrophy: Case Report. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 26(6), 983–988. https://doi.org/10.4103/aian.aian_609_23
  • Gangwal, A., Kumar, N., Sangwan, N., Dhasmana, N., Dhawan, U., Sajid, A., Arora, G., & Singh, Y. (2023). Giving a signal: how protein phosphorylation helps Bacillus navigate through different life stages. FEMS microbiology reviews, 47(4), fuad044. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuad044
  • Agrawal, N., Saini, S., Khanna, M*., Dhawan, G*., & Dhawan, U*. (2022). Pharmacological Manipulation of UPR: Potential Antiviral Strategy Against Chikungunya Virus. Indian journal of microbiology, 62(4), 634–640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12088-022-01046-5
  • Singh, R., Jha, D., Dhawan, U., Gautam, H. K., & Kumar, P. (2022). Therapeutic Applications of Self-assembled Indole-3-butanoyl-polyethylenimine Nanostructures. Indian journal of microbiology, 62(3), 411–418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12088-022-01015-y
  • Kaur, N., Chugh, H., Sakharkar, M. K., Dhawan, U., Chidambaram, S. B., & Chandra, R. (2020). Neuroinflammation Mechanisms and Phytotherapeutic Intervention: A Systematic Review. ACS chemical neuroscience, 11(22), 3707–3731. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00427
  • Ash, P. E. A.#, Dhawan, U. #, Boudeau, S., Lei, S., Carlomagno, Y., Knobel, M., Al Mohanna, L. F. A., Boomhower, S. R., Newland, M. C., Sherr, D. H., & Wolozin, B. (2019). Heavy Metal Neurotoxicants Induce ALS-Linked TDP-43 Pathology. Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 167(1), 105–115. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfy267 #Equal First Authors
  • Apicco, D. J., Ash, P. E. A., Maziuk, B., LeBlang, C., Medalla, M., Al Abdullatif, A., Ferragud, A., Botelho, E., Ballance, H. I., Dhawan, U., Boudeau, S., Cruz, A. L., Kashy, D., Wong, A., Goldberg, L. R., Yazdani, N., Zhang, C., Ung, C. Y., Tripodis, Y., Kanaan, N. M., … Wolozin, B. (2018). Reducing the RNA binding protein TIA1 protects against tau-mediated neurodegeneration in vivo. Nature neuroscience, 21(1), 72–80. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-017-0022-z