She did her Ph.D. in Chemistry (1999) at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow and thesis executed under the doctoral advisor of Amiya Prasad Bhaduri.
(05/00 to 05/01).Seema Bhatnagar started her career as Senior Research Fellow (Extended) in Medicinal Chemistry Division, associated with "Lactam Acetals in Organic Synthesis" under the supervision of Nitya Anand.
[4] She is currently pursuing project sponsored by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),[5] along with her collaborator Bhudev Chandra Das.
[6] Apart from this she has developed active collaboration with Bhyravabhotla Jayaram[7] at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Thankayyan Retnabai Santhosh Kumar[8] at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram and Drug Discovery Unit at the University of Dundee to strengthen her research work.
She has been the front runner at her Institute for being selected to attend Wellcome Trust Advanced Course in Small Molecule Drug Discovery.