Dr.Rajesh Saini

About

Born in the year 1991 at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA, He did his schooling till class 12th in his hometown. He completed his high school (Class X) from Harishchandra Inter college Varanasi then moved to DAV Government Intercollege, Varanasi to complete intermediate (Class XII) affiliated to UP Board Allahabad in Hindi Medium language. Later he completed his graduation degree from Uday Pratap Autonomous college, Varanasi, India in the year 2007-2010. Rajesh got admission for M.Sc. Plant Biotechnology by qualifying the national level exam conducted by BHU, Varanasi, (2012), and completed his degree program in the year 2012-2014 from the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences.

Rajesh qualified for several other national level exams: GATE -Life Sciences (2017), ICAR New Delhi ASRB Net exam (2018) in Agricultural Biotechnology and ICMR-SRF (Direct) in 2020.

Rajesh Saini completed his Ph.D. Plant Biotechnology as ICMR-Senior Research Fellow in 2020 with Dr. Kavindra Nath Tiwari (Senior Professor) at Department of Botany, MMV, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis is “Tissue culture, Phaytochemical and Bioactivity studies of Drypetes roxburghii (Wall.) Hurusawa".

Rajesh researches in Plant tissue culture and Reproductive biology. His area of interest is 'Conservation of endangered and threatened medicinal plants and isolation of secondary metabolites for the assessment of its activity as phytoestrogen. In summary, the estrogen level of in women's ceased after 45-50 years of age as menstrual cycle stops and hence several complications starts like dementia, Hot flush and headache. The Hormonal therapy also leads to the danger of breast and cervical cancer. Hence the possible solution is plant derived metabolites which are structurally and functionally similar with the estrogen. In this regard the animal model created with ovariectomy and histopathology based study performed along with molecular level.

Employment

• Banaras Hindu University Research Scholar
  2017 - 2024

Education

• Banaras Hindu University Faculty of Science Ph.D
  2017 - 2024
• Banaras Hindu University M.Sc (Plant Biotechnology)
  2012 - 2014
• Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University
  2007 - 2010
• DAV Intermediate College XII
  2005 - 2007

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Publications

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