Deputy Editor in Chief

Aruna Rakha Arora

Associate Professor

Department of Translational and Regenerative Medicine

PGIMER, Chandigarh

Dr. Aruna Rakha Arora is currently working as a young Faculty (Associate Professor) in the Department of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (India). She obtained her PhD from Queens University Belfast (UK). She undertook her research in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (USA) in Immunology as the field of specialization. Her current research profile focuses on studying effect of Stem Cells in varied cohort of patients and in disease modeling. She and her group have shown clinical feasibility of mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in renal transplant patients that leads to graft friendly immune microenvironment. For this work, she has been awarded with prestigious young nephrologist award at World Congress of Nephrology in Cape Town & Melbourne twice. Currently, along with above studies, she is focusing on preparing biomimetic scaffolds for regeneration of various kind of traumas.