Dr. Poonam Verma is the CEO and Research Director of RegennMed Research and Therapeutics. She obtained Master degree in Biotechnology, earned her PhD in Tissue Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D), New Delhi, India and Post Doctorate in Stem Cells from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. She developed and introduced the credit course in Tissue Engineering in IIT Delhi and taught B.Tech. / M.Tech. and PhD Scholars there.

Dr. Poonam qualified CSIR-UGC NET JRF (Life Sciences) Exam and was selected in top 20% of the merit list for taking Shyama Prasad Mukerjee (SPM) Fellowship exam. She also qualified Indian Council of Medical Research-JRF and obtained top score in GATE (Life Sciences). She qualified AIIMS and IIT pre-PhD entrance exams.

Dr. Poonam has published more than 20 original research articles, reviews and book chapters. She has been a trainer in many workshops related to Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells.

Earlier she was working as Senior Research Scientist and heading R&D of Cryobanks International India Private Limited, Gurgaon, India. Dr. Poonam is the active member of Regenerative Society of India and Founder Secretary General of Anti-Ageing Society of India. She is also the Founder Secretary General of Society of Aesthetics and Regenerative Gynaecology (SARG).

Dr. Poonam has been a stem cell research consultant in various projects, companies and clinics in India and abroad.

Publications

2017 Jain S, Jain M, Gupta A, Gupta M and Poonam Verma. Role of Autologous Stem Cell Therapy in Asherman's Syndrome and Thin Endometrium: A Case Series. Sch J Med Case Rep 2017; 5(5):305-308.

2016 Poonam Verma, H. Bansal, A. Agrawal, J. Leon, IB Sundell, and PS Koka. Evaluation of Bone Marrow Processing Protocol for Therapeutic Applications via Culture and Characterization of Mesenchymal Stem Cells. J Stem Cells. 11(1).

2016 H. Bansal, Poonam Verma, A. Agrawal, J. Leon, IB Sundell, and PS Koka. Autologous Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells in Spinal Cord Injury. J Stem Cells. 11(1).

2016 H. Bansal, Poonam Verma, A. Agrawal, J. Leon, IB Sundell, and PS Koka. A Short Study Report on Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate Cell Therapy in Ten South Asian Indian Patients with Autism. J Stem Cells. 11(1).

2016 H. Bansal, L. Singh, Poonam Verma, A. Agrawal, J. Leon, IB Sundell, and PS Koka. Administration of Autologous Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells for Treatment of Cerebral Palsy Patients: A Proof of Concept. J Stem Cells. 11(1).

2015 Poonam Verma, Mrinalini Chaturvedi. Comparison of the Isolation and Characterization of Cryopreserved Wharton's Jelly -Mesenchymal Stem Cells (WJ-MSCs) in Specialized Serum Free Stem Cell Media and Serum Supplemented Media International conference on Cryobiology Pusa,New Delhi.

2015 Poonam Verma,A.Singh,P. Chattopadhyay.Three-dimensional culture on Chitosan enhances stemness and invasiveness characteristics of glioma stem cells under hypoxia. (Communicated), Biomaterials.

2014 Poonam Verma and Vipin Verma. Concepts in Tissue Engineering. In: Verma & Singh, editors. Animal Biotechnology: Models in Discovery and Translation. Academic Press, p. 233-244.

2012 A. Singh, R. Andrabi, Poonam Verma, M. A. Kassab, J. K. Palanichamy, M. Bhagat, S. Sinha, K. Luthra and P. Chattopadhyay. DsRNA mediated histone methylation of HIV-1C LTR promoter and its activity. Immunology; 137:114.

2012 Anand Singh, Jayant, Poonam Verma, Muzaffar Ahmed Kassab, Subrata Sinha, Parthaprasad Chattopadhyay. Transcriptional silencing and histone methylation induced by dsRNA targeted to the HIV-C 5' LTR promoter region. Keystone HIV Vaccine Conference, California, USA.

2011 Mohita Bhagat, Poonam Verma, Anand Singh, Muzaffar Ahmed Kassab, Subrata Sinha, Parthaprasad Chattopadhyay. Effect of short-term and long-term hypoxia on migration and stemness of tumor cell lines. AACR International Conference on New Horizons in Cancer Research: Biology to Prevention to Therapy. December 13-16, 2011, Gurgaon, Delhi (NCR), India

2011 Mohita Bhagat, Jayant, Poonam Verma, Anand Singh, Muzaffar Ahmed Kassab, Subrata Sinha, Parthaprasad Chattopadhyay. Correlation of stem cell markers, hypoxia markers and Mena in glioblastoma samples. 2nd International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2011), 15-18 October 2011, Pune, India

2009 Poonam Verma, Vipin Verma, Pratima Ray and Alok R. Ray. Agar-gelatin hybrid sponge-induced three-dimensional in vitro 'liver-like' HepG2 spheroids for the evaluation of drug cytotoxicity. J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 3: 368–376.

2008 Vipin Verma, Poonam Verma, Pratima Ray and Alok R. Ray. Preparation of scaffolds from human hair proteins for tissue-engineering applications.Biomed Mater. 3: 025007.

2008 Vipin Verma, Poonam Verma, Pratima Ray and Alok R. Ray. 2, 3-Dihydrazone Cellulose: Prospective material for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds. Mat Sci Eng C. 28: 1441-1447.

2007 VipinVerma, Poonam Verma, Santosh Kar, Pratima Ray and Alok R. Ray. Fabrication of agar-gelatin hybrid scaffolds using a novel entrapment method for in vitro tissue engineering applications. Biotech. Bioengg. 96(2):392-400.

2007 Poonam Verma, Vipin Verma, Pratima Ray and Alok R. Ray. Formation and Characterization of Three Dimensional Human Hepatocyte Cell Line Spheroids on Chitosan Matrix for in vitro Tissue Engineering Applications. In Vitro Cell Dev-An., 43 (10), 328-337.

2007 Poonam Verma, Vipin Verma, Pratima Ray and Alok R. Ray. Chitosan in Tissue Regeneration. Asian Chitin J., 3,95-116.

2006 Agar gelatin hybrid scaffolds for three dimensional tissue growth" in XVI conference of society for biomaterials and artificial organs-India on Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Medical Diagnostics at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India on February 25.

2005 Poonam Verma, Vipin Verma and Alok R. Ray. Chitosan as Tissue Engineering Scaffolds. In: P.K. Dutta, editor. Chitin and Chitosan: Opportunities and Challenges. Contai, Midnapore, India: SSM International Publication, p. 223-242.

2003 Poonam Verma and Y.D. Sharma. Malaria genome project and its impact on the disease. J. Vect Borne Dis; 40: 9-15.