She specializes in the field of environmental carcinogenesis and molecular epidemiology of cancer, occupational hazards.
[2] She worked on skin carcinogenesis using electron microscope as the main tool, which led to her PhD degree from the University of Bombay in 1974.
[1] Bhisey worked at the University of Pennsylvania as a research assistant and later with Jerome J Freed at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research on ultra-structural aspects of cell surface of drug resistant haploid frog cells.
She established a genetic toxicology laboratory at Cancer Research Institute (CRI) to test mutagenic potential of putative mutagens, conduct toxicology investigations and monitor genetic hazards of environmental agents.
She is a member of the Monograph Program Panel, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.