2012 batch

• Dr. Gowri Balachander  2012 (School of Medicine, National University of Singapore)(Advisers: KC and AR): Breast Cancer Stem Cells in 3D Tissue Scaffolds
• Dr. Sreenath Balakrishnan 2012 (Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Goa)(Advisers: GKA and SD): Investigations into the changes in biomechanics of liver cells upon Hepatitis C Virus infection
• Dr. Rajeev Mudakavi  2012 (Ramaiah College of Pharmacy, Bengaluru)(Advisers: AMR and DC): Delivery of Bioactives for Treatment of Infections Diseases.
• Dr. Pradeep Sathyanarayana 2012  (Medical School, Harvard University)(Advisers: KGA and SSV): Pore Forming Toxins
• Dr. Puneet Singh 2012 (Harvard University)(Advisers: AG and AM): How Does the Central Nervous System Control Movements?

2013 batch

• Dr. Queeny Dasgupta  2013 (Tufts University, Boston) (Advisers: KC and GM): Novel Polymer-Nanocomposites for Tissue Engineering
• Dr. Akshay Datey 2013 (Superwave Technology Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru)(Advisers: GJ and DC): Effect of Shock Waves on Mammalian Cells.
• Anjali Gupta 2013(Advisers: MMV and VS): GPCR Signalling, Innate Immune Responses, Genetics Microscopy/Imaging, Microfabrication.
• Dr. Sharmistha Naskar 2013 (India Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata)(Advisers: BB and VK): External Electrical Field Stimulated Modulation of Cell Functionality Within Constrained Microchannels.
• Dr. Gaurav Sankhe 2013 (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital, New York)(Advisers: ND and DS): Systems Wide Analysis of Cell Signal towards Improved Combat of Infection Diseases.
• Varsha Vasudevan  2013 (Advisers: RP and AM): Use of Optimal Control Theory to Study Motor Control.
• Taru Verma 2013 (Advisers: SU and DN): Analysis of disease models using light Spectroscopic Studies.

2014 batch

• Aakash Agrawal 2014(Advisers: KVSH and SPA): Computational Models of Biological Vision.
• Zinia Mohanta Advisers: CS and HSA): Novel Nanomaterials Based Cancer Diagnostics, Imaging and Therapies.
  Ilanila I. P. (Advisers: JKB and KGA): Investigating the artificial Membrane Model Systems for Studying the Dynamics of Lipids in the presence of Different Membrane Proteins.

2015 batch

• Aditi Jain 2015(Advisers: KC and RS): Understanding Cardiac Failure using Engineered Biomaterials.
• Dr. Paresh Kumar Samantaray 2015 (Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Warwick, Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-21 at Caltech)(Advisers: SB and GM): Polymeric Membranes for Water Purification.
• Nireekshit Addanki Tirumala 2015 (Advisers: GKA and VA): Functional Regulation of Cyctoplasmic Dyein.
• Shivani Yadav 2015 (Advisers: PKG and DG): Analysis of Vocal Sounds in Asthamatic Patients

2016 batch

• Ratnasri K (Adviser: RR) : Bacterial cellular heterogeneity in inducible gene expression and drug susceptibility

• Saurabh Kothari (Adviser: AM and AG ): Computational models for biological motor control and learning

• Preeti Sharma (Adviser: SJ): Towards a Better Understanding of the Interaction between Phagocytic Immune Cells and Synthetic Particulates
  
• Aritra Chatterjee (Adviser: NG): Role of Fiber Orientation in Mechanobiology of cells under stress. 
• Jayashree (Adviser: SJ): Improving Healing Outcomes in Diabetic Wounds by Understanding and Modulating Immune Responses
  
• Reshma VR (Adviser: DS and AG): Helical magnetic nanomotors- fabrication, toxicity, and therapeutics
  

2017 batch

• Kaamini M.D. 2017 (Adviser: RA): PLGA based drug carriers for the treatment of osteoarthritis
• Anil Vishnu 2017 (Adviser: HP and AR): Design and Development of a Semi-Automated System for Electro-Thermo-Mechanical (ETM) Phenotyping of Breast Tissues Ex-Vivo
• Dravid Ameya Atul 2017 (Adviser: RA): Resolvin D1-loaded nanoliposomes for the treatment of osteoarthritis
• Alakesh 2017 (Adviser: SJ): Delineating the dynamics of neutrophil response in multiple inflammatory stimuli and its consequences
• Divakar Badal 2017 (Adviser: AK and VS): Experimental and computational approaches to understand collective behaviors of bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Parul Yadav 2017 (Adviser: DS and KC): New dimension in senescence: Unraveling cellular senescence in three-dimensional scaffolds
  
• Pallavi Raj Sharma 2017 (Adviser: RA): Micro-carriers mediated bacteriophage delivery for targeting intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and TB prevention
• Harsh Chhajer 2017 (Adviser: RR): Biophysics of focal adhesion and cytoskeletal remodeling under fluid shear

2018 batch

• H A S Shri Kishore Aug 2018 (Adviser: MKJ)): Design principles of phenotypic plasticity and robustness in gene regulatory networks underlying cancer metastasis.

• Subbalakshmi A R Jan 2019 (Adviser: MKJ): Dynamical systems approach to elucidate cellular plasticity in carcinoma metastasis

• Vishal Gupta Jan 2019 (Adviser:RA): Engineering an in vitro 3-dimensional (3D) necrotic tuberculosis granuloma to study host-pathogen interaction and drug efficacy

2019 batch

• Atchuta Srinivas Duddu Aug 2019 (Adviser: MKJ): Multistability in cellular differentiation enabled by three and four node mutually repressive regulatory networks: A case study of CD4+ T-cell decision making
• Saswat Choudhury Aug 2019 (Adviser: SA and KC): 4D Printing of Polymer Composites to Engineer Absorbable and Deployable Implants
  
• Sameer Kumar Jagirdar Jan 2020 (Adviser: SJ): Immune cell death on silicone surfaces drives biofilm formation
  

Project Staff

Sakshi Aggarwal (M. Phil Project Student with SJ, Current Position: Project Assistant, MCBL, IISc [Jul ’15 – Jun ’16])
Ganesh B. Pai (Project Assistant with SJ, Current Position: Scientific Officer C, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) [Aug ’14 – Jun ’15]
Ajay Kulkarni (B.Tech. Project Student with SJ) [Jan ’15 – Apr ’15]
Jerrin Mathew Thankachan (JRF with VA, Current Position: PhD Student, MCBL, IISc) [Jul ’15 – Jul ’16]
Pranav Tiwari (Project Assistant with SJ, Current Position: PhD Student, IIT Indore) [Aug ’15 – Jun ’16]
Keerthi N. S. (Project Assistant with SJ), Current Position: M.Tech Student, IIT Madras) [Oct ’17 – Nov ’17; Mar ’18 – Jul ’18]
Manjyot Kaur Chug (Project Assistant with SJ), Current Position: PhD Student, University of Central Florida) [Jan ’17 – May ’18]
Sachin Latiyan (Project Assistant with SJ), Current Position: PhD Student, IIT Madras) [Jan ’17 – May ’18]
Ashwini Ravi (Project Assistant with VA, Current Position: PhD Student, Bangalore University) [Jul ’15 – Jul ’17]
Stephen Sukumar (Research Assistant with VA, Current Position: PhD Student, Justus Liebig Universitat, Germany) [Jul ’16 – Jul ’17]
Rishabh Singh (Research Assistant with VA, Current Position: M.Tech Student, Boston University) [Jul ’17 – Jun ’18]
Kritika Mehta (JRF with VA, Current Position: PhD Student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) [Jul ’17 – Jul ’18]
Dr. Tirthankar Sengupta (Research Associate with VA ) [Sep ’16 – Nov ’17]
Reshma Raj (Project Assistant with VA ) [Aug ’17 – Aug ’18]
Anand Sankar (Project Assistant with VA ) [Aug ’17 – Sep ’18]

Interns

Varsha Neelakantan (Intern with SJ) [Dec ’16 – May ’17]
Vinidhra Shankar (Intern with SJ) [Dec ’16 – May ’17]
Pallavi Tandon (Intern with SJ) [Jan ’17 – April ’17]
Mekhla Singhania (Intern with SJ) [Jun ’16]
Amoolya Girish (Intern with VA) [Sep ’16 – Dec ’16]
Chriset Jayaraj (Intern with RA) [May ’18]
Lakshay Sethi (Intern with RA) [Feb ’18 – Jun ’18]
Milind Singh (Intern with VA) [May ’15 – Jun ’15]
Parth Sharma (Intern with VA) [May ’17]
Manish Ayushman (Intern with VA) [May ’17 – Jul ’17]
Keval Pandya (Intern with VA) [May ’17]
Aditya Jeevannavar (Intern with VA) [May ’18 – Jul ’18]

Foreign Students

Elsa Barron, University of Notre Dame, USA (with VA) [Jun ’18 – Aug ’18]
Kayla Huemer, University of Wisconsin (with GKA)) [Jun ’16 – Sep ’16]