REGULAR FACULTY
Dr Althuri Avanthi
Assistant Professor
Area of Research: Biofuels, Biochemicals, Biomaterials, Nanobiotechnology, Bioprocess technology, Downstream processing, Hydrothermal Liquefaction, Waste valorisation and Circular economy.
Email: a.avanthi@bt.iith.ac.in
Dr Anamika Bhargava
Associate Professor
Areas of Research : Electrophysiology, Ion channel function in heath and disease, Channelopathies, voltage gated calcium channels as drug targets, Zebrafish as an animal model. Drug screening/toxicity studies using zebrafish, Molecular mechanism of diseases in zebrafish
Email : abhargava@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91 (40) 2301 8453
Dr Rajakumara Eerappa
Associate Professor
Areas of Research : Structural Biology, X-ray Crystallography, Epigenetic and DNA repair, Protein/enzyme engineering for application in organic or pharmaceutical industry and Structure based drug design.
Email : eraj@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91 (40) 2301 7002
Dr Himanshu Joshi
Assistant Professor
Area of Research: Computational Biophysics, DNA nanotechnology, Nanopores, Membrane-DNA interactions, Synthetic molecular systems, Biomimetic channels for selective transport of water and ions, Computational virology.
Email: hjoshi@bt.iith.ac.in
Dr Rahul Kumar
Assistant Professor
Areas of research: Computational genomics and transcriptomics, artificial intelligence to devise precision medicine and predictive biomarkers, role of epigenomics in cancer progression.
Email: rahulk@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91 (40) 2301 6160
Dr. Gunjan Mehta
Assistant Professor
Area of Research: Chromosome Biology and Cell Division, Transcription Regulation, Single-Molecule Imaging and Fluorescence Microscopy, Epigenetic Transcription Memory/Mitotic Bookmarking, Developmental Disorders and Cancers
Email: gunjanmehta@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91 (40) 2301 6159
Dr Ashish Misra
Assistant Professor
Areas of Research : RNA biology, Genomics and transcriptomics
Email : ashishmisra@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91(40) 2301 6196
Dr Basant Kumar Patel
Associate Professor
Areas of Research : Molecular Biology of Prion and Amyloid diseases, Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae genetics, Bio-chemistry and bio-physics of protein misfolding.
Email : basantkpatel@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91 (40) 2301 6008
Dr N. K. Raghavendra
Associate Professor
Areas of Research : Innate Immunity, cancer, HIV.
Email : raghunk@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91 (40) 2301 7056
Dr Thenmalarchelvi Rathinavelan
Associate Professor
Areas of Research : Bacterial glycobiology, Transition state structures of proteins, DNA ...protein interaction, DNA structure and dynamics.
Email : tr@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91 (40) 2301 7067
Dr Sandipan Ray
Assistant Professor
Areas of Research: Circadian clocks and sleep, Host and parasite circadian rhythms in infectious diseases, Mechanism of pharmacological modulators of circadian clocks, Systems biology, Clinical proteomics and mass spectrometry
Email: sandipan.ray@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91 (40) 2301 6157
Dr Anindya Roy
Professor, Head Of The Department
Areas of Research : Molecular and cellular biology of DNA damage, recognition, and repair.
Email : anindya@bt.iith.ac.in
Phone : +91 (40) 2301 6083
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Undurti N Das, MD, DSc, FAMS, FRSC
Adjunct Professor
Consultant Physician, Diabetologist, Clinical Immunologist, Rheumatologist, CEO, CSO, UND Life Sciences
2221 NW 5th St, Battle Ground, WA 98604, USA
Areas of Research: polyunsaturated fatty acids and their metabolism