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- 19 June 2023
Pallavi successfully delivers her Ph.D. colloquium. Congratulations! Pallavi is joining as a post-doc at Gladstone Institute, San Francisco, USA - 5 June 2023
Rachit has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations! - 9 May 2023
A collaborative project by ours and laboratory of Harinath Chakrapani's at IISER Pune has been recommended for funding the STARS, MoE to develop strategies for TB treatment! - 26 April 2023
Our laboratory signs and MoU with Achira Labs to foster collaboration and co-mentor an M. Tech student - 22 March 2023
Nisha and Bhagyashree has been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). Congratulations to both of them! - 6th March 2023
Rituparna joins the laboratory as IISc IoE postdoctoral fellow. Welcome! - 21st January 2023
Congratulations to Vishal and Yeswanth for winning the best poster award in BSSE annual symposium 2023. Several lab members presented their research in this symposium. - 2nd January 2023
Tathagata joins the laboratory as a Ph.D. scholar. He is co-advised by Prof. Amit Singh (MCB, IISc). Welcome! - 11th November 2022
Ameya successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Ameya! Ameya is joining as a post-doc at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - 23rd October 2022
Rachit presents lab research in Grand Challenges conference by the Gates foundation in Brussels, Belgium! - 29th September 2022
Rachit presents lab research in Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering conference in Bremen, Germany! - 29th July 2022
Vaishnavi joins the laboratory. Welcome! - 30th June 2022
Edna's and Avijit's manuscript on OMV coated gold particles for TB vaccine has been accepted at Biomaterials Advances. Congratulations! - 21st June 2022
Puvada and Akshi joins the laboratory. Welcome! - 1st June 2022
Kaamini successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Kaamini! - 18th May 2022
Ameya successfully delivers his Ph.D. colloquium. Congratulations! - 12th April 2022
Yeswanth has been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). Congratulations! - 25th February 2022
Pallavi's story has been selected as the top 100 in the Ph.D. category for AWSAR award organized by Department of Science and Technology! - 17th February 2022
Kaamini's manuscript on Rapamycin microparticles has been accepted at Bioengineering and Translational Medicine. Congratulations! - 28th December 2021
Bhagyashree and Nisha joins the laboratory as a PhD. students. Welcome! - 26th November 2021
Kaamini successfully delivers her Ph.D. colloquium. Congratulations! - 23rd November 2021
Pallavi is selected as eLife Community Ambassador! - 24th September 2021
Ameya's manuscript on liposomal-RvD1 delivery has been accepted at Bioengineering and Translational Medicine. Congratulations! - 16th September 2021
Rajesh is selected as the top innovators in BRICS_YSF 2021 conclave! - 31st August 2021
Rachit is selected as an Early Career Editorial Board Member for the journal JBMR-A. Congratulations! - 31st August 2021
Anil has been appointed as a senior scientist in RapidDx Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Congratulations! - 15th July 2021
Debarshi joins the laboratory as IISc UG final year intern. Welcome! - 1st July 2021
Pranshu joins the laboratory as a project assistant. Welcome! - 23rd April 2021
Avijit has been appointed as senior scientist in Aten Porus Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd. Congratulations! - 5th April 2021
Avijit's manuscript has been accepted in Critical Reviews in Microbiology! - 17th Feb 2021
Anil has received the prestigious IISc IoE institute post-doctoral fellowship. Congratulations! - 17th Feb 2021
Neeraja joins the laboratory as PhD. student co-advised by Dr Kartik Sunagar (CES). Welcome! - 22nd Jan 2021
Anil joins the laboratory as post-doctoral fellow. Welcome! - 12th Jan 2021
Sharu joins the laboratory as JRF. Welcome! - 20th Nov 2020
Yeswanth's manuscript has been accepted in Frontiers in Microbiology! Also check out his interview with Bio Patrika here. - 1st Nov 2020
Avijit has been awarded the DBT-research associate fellowship. Congratulations! - 7th Sep 2020
Avijit Goswami and Priyanka Naik joins the laboratory as research associate and project associate respectively. Welcome! - 31st July 2020
Rachit receives Wellcome-Trust/DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship for the period January 2021- December 2025. Congratulations! - 19th June 2020
First manuscript from the lab is now accepted in Biomaterials Science! Read more here. - 3rd June 2020
Kaamini receives the best oral presentation award for her work in Indo-UK Virtual Conference, ‘Current Innovations and the Future of Therapeutic Developments’ CIFTD-2020. Congratulations! - 26th February 2020
Rachit receives prestigious Har Gobind Khorana-Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award 2019 from Union minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Harsh Vardhan! See picture here. - 31st December 2019
PhD. Scholar Rajesh joins the lab. He is co-advised by Dr. Shashank Tripathi (Microbiology and Cell Biology). Welcome! - 23rd December 2019
Smriti joins the lab as lab as project assistant. Welcome! - 2nd December 2019
Shalini joins the lab as lab as project assistant. Welcome! - 26th November 2019
Ameya presents a poster at BioTerm conference at IIT Kanpur. - 15th November 2019
Rachit has been awarded Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA) 2019. Congratulations! - 17th October 2019
Rachit has been selected for Lakshmi Narayanan Young Investigator Award. Congratulations! - 11th September 2019
Latha joins the lab as secretarial assistant. Welcome! - 10th September 2019
Soumyadeep joins the lab as masters project intern. Welcome! - 21st August 2019
PhD. Scholar Kaamini passes her comprehensive exam. Congratulations! - 16th June 2019
Pallavi has been recognized in Himachal's local newspaper for her achievements! Read more here. - 1st June 2019
Rachit has been awarded 18 months funding through "Sentinels Initiative in India" under BIRAC for developing biomaterial-based tuberculosis vaccines. - 23rd May 2019
Edna joins the lab as research associate. Welcome! - 22nd April 2019
Yeswanth joins the lab as project assistant. Welcome! - 1st April 2019
Rachit has been awarded three year funding through Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for phage therapy project. - 29th March 2019
PhD. Scholar Pallavi passes her comprehensive exam. Congratulations! - 25th March 2019
PhD. Scholar Ameya passes his comprehensive exam. Congratulations! - 1st January 2019
PhD. Scholar Vishal joins the lab. Welcome! - 15th December 2018
Priyanka has been selected as Global Scientific Advisor with Novo Nordisk Service Centre (India) Private Ltd. Congratulations! - 2nd August 2018
Iti joins the lab as lab's first project assistant. Welcome! - 17th July 2018
Rachit's post-doc paper on Biomaterial-based delivery of bacteriophages to treat lung infections has been accepted in Nature BME! Also check out the Behind the paper story here. - 29th May 2018
Rachit's post-doc collaboration paper on Lysostaphin delivery through hydrogels to treat orthopeadic infections has been accepted in PNAS! - 9th May 2018
Rachit has been awarded the SERB Early Career Research Award to develop inflammation resolving carriers for treatment of Osteoarthritis! - 3rd May 2018
Abhirami joins the lab as summer intern. Welcome! - 2nd May 2018
Priyanka joins the lab as Research Associate. Welcome! - 1st January 2018
PhD. Scholar Kaamini joins the lab. Welcome! - 12th October 2017
Ameya's interview on how to prepare for GATE is published in Indian Express! - 1st October 2017
Rachit has been awarded the prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship! - 1st August 2017
Ph.D. Scholars Pallavi and Ameya join the lab as its first two PhD. students. Welcome! - 5th June 2017
Rachit joins the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering at IISc Bangalore as an Assistant Professor!
Project assistant and Postdoc: Those who can commit more than 1 year (2 year for postdocs), are encouraged to apply to Rachit: rachit@iisc.ac.in
Ph.D. positions: Please apply through IISc admissions. More information at: https://be.iisc.ac.in/admissions
Average time from joining to Ph.D. colloquium: 4 years 4 months (n=2)
IISc Undergraduates interested in doing their final semester projects and summer internship are encouraged to apply to Rachit: rachit@iisc.ac.in
Other Undergraduates: Semester long internships are not available. For summer internship, please apply through department's BEST program. More information at: https://be.iisc.ac.in/BEST.html
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