Dr. Bhanu Sharma

• Laboratory Leadership: Managing high-volume diagnostic services, overseeing Quality Control (QC/EQAS), and validating complex biochemical reports (e.g., Immunochemistry, Molecular Diagnostics).
• Clinical Consultation: Providing expert interpretation of biochemical data to clinical departments (ICU, Oncology, Endocrinology) to guide patient management.
• Academic Mentorship: Delivering lectures and practical training to MBBS students and providing hands-on thesis guidance to Junior Residents (MD candidates).
• Advanced Research: Executing departmental research projects using sophisticated technologies like HPLC, Mass Spectrometry,· DNA Isolation and Estimation, Gel Electrophoresis, PCR and RealTime PCR, Mass array technology, Sangar sequencing, Bioinformatics analysis of targeted miRNA.
• Administrative Oversight: Troubleshooting technical instrumentation issues and ensuring compliance with NABL and institutional laboratory standards.

· Attended the multidisciplinary conference SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM “Emerging trends in basic and applied sciences.” organized by DAV College, Jalandharand sponsored by Department of Science and Technology &Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi.

· Poster presentation on “Role of Histopathology in neuroedocrine tumours” at PATHOCON 2017,

GMC, Jammu on 22nd April 2017.

· Poster Genetics of colorectal cancer at Crab-e-Con (October 2018).

· Oral presentation at the "7th Edition of International Conference on Clinical and Medical Oncology" held during July 12-13, 2021, Webinar.

· Oral presentation at the “9TH Annual conference of research and innovation in pediatric surgery”, AIIMS JAMMU 2025.

Publications:

1. Bhanu Sharma, Pragyan Paramita Parij, Onjal K. Taywad, Swati Rajput. Coexistence of Anti-CCP Positive Rheumatoid Arthritis with Autoimmune Hepatitis Type. Fortune J Health Sci 2025.

2. Bhanu Sharma, Ruchi Shah, Rajeshwar Singh, Sonali Verma, Amrita Bhat, Gh. Rasool Bhat, DivyaBakshi, Supinder Singh, Shabab Angurana, Audesh Bhat, Samantha Vaishnavi and Rakesh Kumar. Evaluation of Newly Identified IKZF1 Loci in Colorectal cancer-2021 J Can Res Ther

3. Bhanu Sharma, Shabab angurana, Ruchi Shah, Rajeshwar Singh, Sonali Verma, Amrita Bhat, Gh. Rasool Bhat, DivyaBakshi, Supinder Singh, Shabab Angurana, Audesh Bhat, Samantha Vaishnavi and Rakesh Kumar.Genetic Association of ARID5B with the risk of colorectal cancer within Jammu and Kashmir, India: A prelude study-2021,Genes and Genetic Systems.

4. Bhanu Sharma, Shabab Angurana, Amrita Bhat, Sonali Verma, DivyaBakshi, Ghulam Rasool Bhat, Rajeshwer Singh Jamwal, Asif Amin, Raies Ahmed Qadri, Ruchi Shah* and Rakesh Kumar*.Genetic Analysis of colorectal carcinoma using high throughput SNP genotyping technique within the population of Jammu and Kashmir- 2021 Molecular Biology Reports

5. Minerva Sharma Sonali Verma, Rajeshwer Singh Jamwal, Ziy Tufail, Vanshika Bhagat, Sonia Nagyal, Gh. Rasool Bhat, Amrita Bhat, Bhanu Sharma, Ruchi Shah, Gresh Chander, Audesh Bhat, Rakesh Kumar: Exome sequencing identifies ADGRG4 G-Protein-Coupled Receptors Gene as a novel cancer biomarker in ovarian cancer patients from North India. Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology 2024 Mar;38(3):e23672. Impact Factor 3.

6. Sonali Verma, Ruchi Shah, Amrita Bhat, Gh. Rasool Bhat, Divya Bakshi, Bhanu Sharma, Ajay Wakhloo, Vikas Heer, Gresh Chander, Audesh Bhat, Rakesh Kumar: Genetic analysis of polymorphism rs10937405 of TP63gene in breast and ovarian cancer patients of North Indian Cohort. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics 2023 Jan-Mar;19(2):214-217 UGC S.No. 171 Impact Factor 1.331

7. DivyaBakshi, Bhanu Sharma, Ruchi Shah, Amrita Bhat, Sonali Verma, Gh. Rasool Bhat, Deepak Abrol, Rahul Sharma, Samantha Vashnavi, Rakesh Kumar.ANKLE-1 as new hotspot mutation for Breast cancer in Indian population and has a role in DNA Damage and repair in mammalian cells 2021-Front. Genet. 11:609758.

8. Rajeshwer Singh Jamwal, Nikita Mahajan, Gh. Rasool Bhat, Amrita Bhat, Bhanu Sharma, Ruchi Shah, Minerva Sharma, Sonali Verma, Divya Bakshi, Rahul Sharma, Deepak Abrol, Rakesh Kumar. Audesh Bhat, REV3L gene variants rs1002481, rs462779, and rs465646 lead to increased susceptibility towards non-small cell lung cancer in the population of Jammu and Kashmir Cancer Epidemiology 2021, 75-102047 UGC S.No. 6472 Impact Factor 2.89.

9. Gh. Rasool Bhat, Itty Sethi, Amrita Bhat, Sonali Verma, Divya Bakshi, Bhanu Sharma, Muddasser Nazir, Khursheed A Dar, Deepak Abrol, Ruchi Shah, Rakesh Kumar: Evaluation of the genetic variants using MassARRAY in non-small cell lung cancer among North Indians. Scientific Reports (Nature) 11291 (2021) (e-Print)- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90742-1- Impact Factor-4.996

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10. Amrita Bhat, Gh. Rasool Bhat, Sonali Verma, Ruchi Shah, Monika Pandita, Divya Bakshi, Bhanu Sharma, Jyotsna Suri, Deepak Abrol, Rahul Sharma, Shabab Angurana, Rakesh Kumar: Genetic variant rs10937405 of TP63 with Leukemia risk from Northern India population Submitted in 2021-African Journal of health sciences (2021) 21:3-1243-1249. UGC S.No. 1621 Impact factor 0.923.

11. Amrita Bhat, Ruchi Shah, Sonali Verma, Gh.Rasool Bhat, Varun Sharma, Indu Sharma, Monika Pandita, Divya Bakshi, Bhanu Sharma, Kohsheen Kamal, Jyotsna Suri, Deepak Abrol, Rahul Sharma, Rakesh Kumar; Association of ARID5B and IKZF1 variants with Leukemia from Northern India. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers, 2019 Mar;23(3):176-179- Impact factor 1.736

12.1. Amrita, Bhat, Gh Bhat, Sonali Verma, Bhanu Sharma, Divya Bakshi, Deepak Abrol, Supinder Singh, Raies Qadri, Ruchi Shah, Rakesh Kumar: Analysis of Seventeen genetic variants in association with Leukemia within North Indian population using mass ARRAY Sequenom J Biochem Mol Toxicol. May 2021 e-22792- Impact Factor 3.606

13. Sonali Verma, Varun Sharma, Indu Sharma, Ruchi Shah, Amrita Bhat, Gh. Rasool Bhat, Divya Bakshi, Ashna Nagpal, Bhanu Sharma, Deepak Abrol, Rahul Sharma, Audesh Bhat, Rakesh Kumar Association Analysis of Cancer Susceptibility Variants in Ovarian Cancer Patients- Scientific Reports (Nature) 2020 Dec 3;10(1):21101. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-76491-7. Impact factor 4.996

14.Amrita Bhat, Deepak Abrol, Gh. Rasool Bhat, Ruchi Shah, Sonali Verma, Divya Bakshi, Bhanu Sharma, Supinder Singh, Rakesh Raina, Rakesh Kumar. The Genetic variant rs2301721 of HOXA7 associated risk for Leukemia in Jammu region of North Indian Population- 2020 Polymorphism, 5, 68-76.

15. Divya Bakshi; Ashna Nagpal, Varun Sharma, Indu Sharma, Ruchi Shah, Bhanu Sharma, Amrita Bhat, Sonali Verma, Gh. Rasool Bhat, Deepak Abrol, Rahul Sharma, Samantha Vashnavi, Rakesh Kumar. MassARRAY-based single nucleotide polymorphism analysis in breast cancer of North Indian Population. 2020-BMC Cancer- Sep 7;20(1):861. UGC S.No. 5269 Impact factor 4.638

16. Ashna Nagpal, Sonali Verma, Ruchi Shah, Gh. Rasool Bhat, Amrita Bhat, Divya Bakshi, Bhanu Sharma, Sandeep Kaul, and Rakesh Kumar. Genetic polymorphism of hOGG1 ser326cys and its association with breast cancer in North Indian Population. Indian J Cancer. 2020 Apr-Jun;57(2):187-189. UGC S.No. 74 Impact Factor:1.22

16. Ruchi Shah, Varun Sharma, Amrita Bhat, Hemender Singh, Indu Sharma, Sonali Verma, Gh Rasool Bhat, Bhanu Sharma, Divya Bakshi, Rakesh Kumar and Nazir Ahmed Dar: MassARRAY analysis of twelve cancer related SNPs in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in the population of Jammu and Kashmir-India. BMC Cancer, 2020 Jun 1;20(1):497. UGC S.No. 5269 Impact factor 4.638.

17. Sonali Verma, Divya Bakshi, Varun Sharma, Indu Sharma, Ruchi Shah, Bhanu Sharma, Amrita Bhat, G.R Bhat, Ajay Wakhloo, Jyotsna Suri, Sandeep Kaul, Vijeshwar Verma, Rakesh Kumar: Profiling of Newly Identified Genetic Variants at 7p15.3 and 6p21.1 in Ovarian and Breast cancer females of Jammu and Kashmir: A First Report; in International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 148 (1), 118-122 Jan 2020- UGC S.No. 5231 Impact factor 3.56

18. Gh. Rasool Bhat, Amrita Bhat, Sonali Verma, Itty Sethi, Ruchi Shah, Varun Sharma, Minerva, Divya Bakshi, Bhanu Sharma, Sandeep Koul, Deepak Abrol, Audesh Bhat, Rakesh Kumar. Genetic variant rs10937405 of TP63 and susceptibility to lung cancer risk in North-Indian population. Journal of Genetics (2019) 98:59- UGC S.No. 191 Impact Factor: 1.508

19. Amrita Bhat, Ruchi Shah, Sonali Verma, Gh.Rasool Bhat, Varun Sharma, Indu Sharma, Monika Pandita, Divya Bakshi, Bhanu Sharma, Kohsheen Kamal, Jyotsna Suri, Deepak Abrol, Rahul Sharma, Rakesh Kumar; Association of ARID5B and IKZF1 variants with Leukemia from Northern India. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers, 2019 Mar;23(3):176-179- Impact factor 1.736