Mukesh Verma

Mukesh Verma
Chief
Methods and Technologies Branch, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States

Biography

Dr. Mukesh Verma is a Program Director and Chief in the Methods and Technologies Branch (MTB), Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program (EGRP) of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Before coming to the DCCPS, he was a Program Director in the Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP), NCI, providing direction in the areas of biomarkers, early detection, risk assessment and prevention of cancer, epigenetcis, epidemiology, and cancers associated with infectious agents. Dr. Mukesh Verma holds a M.Sc. from Pantnagar University and a Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University. He did postdoctoral research at Howard University and George Washington University and was a faculty member at Georgetown University. He has published 136 research articles and reviews and edited five books in cancer biomarkers, epigenetics and epidemiology field.