“This research work is my leap towards the aim of my working place LPU to get included in the list of top 200 universities of the world by the year 2025. I am now really excited and looking for grants to carry out further research.” – Dr. Bhardwaj
Dr. Vikash Bhardwaj, a scientist at Lovely Professional University, is bringing the university international attention and acclaim with his work in molecular biology. The good doctor is on a quest to unlock a new technology in DNA amplification. This new technology may help develop remedial solutions for cancer, tuberculosis, AIDS and other fatal diseases. Discussing his work, Dr Bhardwaj said to the Tribune, Chandigarh, “Technically speaking, this is a development for new ‘Parallel DNA Polymerase Chain Reaction’ (PD-PCR) for two different products from a DNA template. The prestigious ‘F1000Research Journal’ of the UK has recently published this research work, thus providing it credence.”
Having given eight years to this research he claims the new technique he is working on is in a way further to one of the monumental scientific techniques of the 20th century that was developed by Dr Kary Mullis in 1983, who received Nobel Prize for his invention of breakthrough technology PCR. In a conventional PCR, DNA is amplified millions of times as it is in original form. “But going steps further, I and my co-researcher have developed the technique in which synthesis of a new DNA having polarity opposite to the template is used. This new knowledge will definitely open a way in better understanding of remedies for fatal diseases with more probes,” Dr. Bhardwaj explains in an article in the Financial Express.
Numerous publications, printed and digital, including the highly prestigious ‘Genome Web’ have written of Dr. Bhardwaj and his work. Congratulating Dr Bhardwaj, LPU Chancellor Ashok Mittal said, “Government funding agencies should be liberal in adopting researchers to stop brain drain.”
