Affiliation : Director--Flow Cytometry Solutions Pvt Ltd, India and Managing Officer--TETC, India
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Dr. Hemant Agrawal is an immunologist with a passion for flow cytometry. Dr. Agrawal obtained PhD in Immunology from the University Hospital Essen, Germany (2006). He joined Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, USA as an Associate Research Scientist in the Immunology and Arthritis Program (2006-2009). There he performed extensive studies on dendritic cells and macrophages using multicolor flow cytometry. He subsequently joined the Rheumatology Department at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago from 2009 to 2011 as a Research Associate Scientist and continued studies in autoimmunity using flow cytometry. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as an Application and Product Manager with FlowJo, TreeStar Inc, USA for the Indian subcontinent and Middle East. His knowledge of flow cytometry is highly regarded, which led him to be served as consultant/scientific advisor for companies and organizations like Labindia Analyticals Intruments (for Cytek Spectral Flow Cytometers), Bio-Rad, TTPLabtech, ThermoFisher Scientific, Zydus Cadila, Venture Centre (CSIR-Bioincubator), Epigeneres Biotech, Biotechnology Society of Nepal (BSN), Nepal, and Quantum Technology Group, USA. Dr. Agrawal has co-authored many peer-reviewed scientific publications and has been invited as speakers at various national and international meetings & conferences. He is also a committee member and managing officer of the Trust for Education and Training in Cytometry (TETC), which conducts the prestigious annual Indo-US Cytometry Workshops and other cytometry meetings in India and neighboring countries. He is experienced in flow cytometry experimental design, data acquisition, data analysis and presentation of immunophenotyping, intracellular staining, cell proliferation, cell cycle, apoptosis, cytometric bead array etc. At present, he is based in Jaipur, India and runs a flow cytometry consultancy company, “Flowcytometry Solutions (P) Ltd”, which imparts training and consultancy in the field of flow cytometry in India and neighboring countries. He has conducted over 85 flow cytometry onsite workshops all over India and neighboring countries, where participants got the training to design, acquire and analyze the flow cytometry experiments. He also runs online flow cytometry courses, which are widely appreciated and attended by participants from all over the world. To mention his organization has conducted over 40 online courses where thousands of researchers, students, technicians, faculties and doctors have been trained in various applications and aspects of flow cytometry. He is also a consultant to De Novo Software (FCS Express software, USA) and serves as a committee member for the International Society of Advancement of Cytometry-Live Education Delivery Task Force (ISAC-LEDTF), Instruments for Science (I4S) Task force and Board of Studies (BoS), Amity Institute of Molecular Medicine & Stem Cell Research (AIMMSCR), Amity University, India
