"Harsha Rani is a brilliant PhD student of my lab and is currently working on the epigenetics of enhancer regulation with the loss of p53 in colorectal cancer. Her work has been selected for presentation at the prestigious Gordon Research Conference and at the EMBO COnference on Enhanceroapthies which she presented at Marseilles,France last month. She is an outstanding researcher and has 2 publications and 2 book chapters with 2 more publications to comeby next month. She is exploring a frontier research area involving next generation sequencing, epigenomics and imaging. She is a team player and has been an asset to my lab and to the scientific community at our Institute. I feel she is most suited for this Hello Bio career Award."

Nominated by Vijayalakshmi Mahadevan, Disease Epigenomics Lab, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore, India