She currently serves as the Ramanujan Faculty Fellow at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, in Trivandrum, India, and senior research officer at Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
[2] In 2005, she was awarded a post-doctoral Career Development Fellowship in the MRC Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge, focusing on microbial and eukaryotic genetics.
The UK fellowship was followed by several years as a research scientist at Garvan, working with Alexander Swarbrick, head of the cancer center at the institute.
At Garvan, she contributed to a collaborative program called ProMis (Prostate Cancer Metastasis).
[3] Nair also lectured at St. Vincent's Clinical School at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.