I have completed my graduation from Punjabi University, Patiala (India). For my PhD, I have joined Prof. Rakesh Kumar Mahajan's research group at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. During  my PhD, my research work was focused on improving the drug delivery of hydrophobic drugs using carrier molecules such as polymeric micelles and surface active ionic liquid mixed micelles. I have previously worked with a range of anti-cancer drugs such as Paclitaxel, Artesunate and Quercetin as well as neuroleptic drugs such as Oxcarbazepine, Clozapine and Lamotrigine. In 2020, I have been awarded with Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in School of Engineering, Newcastle University.

 

Currently, My research is focussed on the synthesis of nano-Moleculary Imprinted Polymers (nano-MIPs) and their application in the anticancer-drug delivery and diagnostic of the cancer.

• Pankaj S, Singh O, Sharma S, Betlem K, Aswal V, Peeters M, Mahajan R. Temperature-Dependent Solubilization of the Hydrophobic Antiepileptic Drug Lamotrigine in Different Pluronic Micelles—A Spectroscopic, Heat Transfer Method, Small-Angle Neutron Scattering, Dynamic Light Scattering, and in Vitro Release Study. ACS Omega 2019, 4(6), 11251-11262.
• Betlem K, Kaur A, Hudson A, Crapnell R, Hurst G, Singla P, Zubko M, Tedesco S, Banks C, Whitehead K, Peeters M. Heat-Transfer Method: A Thermal Analysis Technique for the Real-Time Monitoring of Staphylococcus aureus Growth in Buffered Solutions and Digestate Samples. ACS Applied Biomaterials 2019, 2(9), 3790-3798.
• Singla P, Garg S, Bhatti R, Peeters M, Singh O, Mahajan RK. Solubilization of hydrophobic drugs clozapine and oxcarbazepine in the lower and higher molecular weight pluronic mixed micelles-a physicochemical, In vitro release and In vitro anti-oxidant study. Journal of Molecular Liquids 2020, 317, 113816.