Dr. Abhilasha received her M.Sc. in Biotechnology from the Kumaun University Nainital, India 2012. She later joined Prof. Shyam Sundar's research group at the Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU), and a project titled “Tropical Medicine Research Centers-National Institutes of Health (NIH-TMRC P36/10) Visceral Leishmaniasis in Bihar State, India. She completed her Ph.D. from the same university under the supervision of Prof. (Dr.) Madhyukar Rai's thesis is entitled “Molecular Studies on PLHIV in Eastern Indian Population”. She worked as a lecturer at Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University in Kanpur for a year at the Institute of Biosciences & Biotechnology. She has an Associate Professorship at the Kanpur Institute of Technology (KIT) in Kanpur, India.