Dr. Bhat is currently working as a research scientist at Dept. of Translational Medicine, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar. He completed his Ph.D. from one of the premier institutes (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS) in India. After his Ph.D., he moved to Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN, USA for postdoctoral fellowship. During his eight years of postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt, he has gained wide experience in the field of cancer biology. His focus of research was on the role and regulation of tight junction proteins (Claudins) in colorectal cancer and the role of bile acid induced APE1/Ref1 in esophageal adenocarcinoma. He has published in well reputed journals like Nature Communications, GUT, Oncogene, Cancer Research, Molecular Cancer and many more enlisted in his CV.