Dr. Narendra Kumar Verma obtained his Ph.D. (2011-2014) from the University of Padova, Italy. He was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship from the European Union for his Ph.D. training. During his doctoral research, under the guidance of Prof. Gerolamo Lanfranchi, Dr. Verma explored various signaling pathways that regulate Z-disc signaling in skeletal muscle. His research focused on the stress-induced skeletal muscle protein Ankrd2.

Following his Ph.D., Dr. Verma joined Prof. Claudio Basilico's lab at the NYU Medical Center, New York, USA, as a postdoctoral fellow. There, he specialized in understanding the role of the stem cell transcription factor Sox2 in maintaining cancer stem cells in solid tumors. Later, Dr. Verma was promoted to a faculty position as a research scientist focusing on obesity and diabetes at NYU Medical Center.

In December 2023, Dr. Verma joined the Department of Systems Biology at the Centre of Biomedical Research (CBMR), SGPGI Campus, Lucknow.

• The main target of my laboratory is to develop PPARy-receptor based therapies for the treatment of Cancer, Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and other metabolic disorders by targeting metabolically important signaling pathways in humans.