About
Dr. Vijay Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Anand School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Agra. He previously served at Amity University, Noida, from (2018–2025). His research centres on the systems biology of neurodegenerative diseases, computational biophysics of protein folding, protein misfolding and aggregation, and the role of toxic RNA species in neurodegeneration.
He earned his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, with research on the structural and biophysical characterization of heparin-binding proteins through structural proteomics. He then completed postdoctoral training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA, studying the folding and aggregation of proteins implicated in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). On returning to India, he joined Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, as Principal Investigator on a project funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (DST-SERB).
With more than a decade of experience in biotechnology research and teaching, Dr. Kumar has supervised 5 Ph.D. students and mentored over 40 undergraduate and postgraduate students. His research has been supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), with funding exceeding ₹80 lakh. He has authored over 100 publications and 8 book chapters in reputed international journals, with more than 5,000 citations and an h-index of 36, and has served as editor for five books published by Academic Press, UK.
Dr. Kumar's contributions have been recognized with the Young Researcher Award and a DAAD Fellowship (Germany), and he was named among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in the Stanford/Elsevier rankings (2023–2025).