Post Doctoral Research Scientists
Dr. Shalaka A. Masurkar (2025)
Dr.Purna B. Chetri (2023)
Present Status: Project Research Scientist, Division of Animal Health and Fisheries Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya
Dr. Arunima S (2021)
Present Status: Research Associate at Case Western Reserve University, USA.
Dr. Shinjinee Dasgupta (2021)
Present Status: Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Fellow and Assistant Professor at Amity University, Noida, Delhi
Dr. Namrata Singh (2021)
Present Status: Research Scientist at PI Health Sciences, Hyderabad
Dr. Shrabanti Das (2020)
Dr. Siddhartha Maiti (2020)
Present status: Associate Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Bhopal
Dr. Nitu Singh (2020)
Present status: Senior Research Scientist at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata
Dr. Shimul Shah (2016)
Present status: Founder and CEO of CurioEdge Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
PhD students
Dr. Ajoy Paul, PhD 2025
Thesis Title: Phase Separation of Tumor Suppressor p53 and its family, p63 and p73.
Present Status: Project Research Associate, SCAN, IIT Bombay.
Dr. Semanti Mukherjee, PhD 2025
Thesis Title: Role of Biomolecular Phase Separation in Protein/Peptide Hormone Storage in Secretory Granules.
Dr. Ajay Singh Sawner, PhD 2024
Thesis Title: Aggregation and Liquid-liquid phase Separation of α-synuclein and its mutants.
Present Status: Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Bombay.
Dr. Manisha Poudyal, PhD 2023
Thesis Title: Liquid-liquid phase separation of proteins and polypeptides
Present status: Postdoctoral Research associate, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Tennessee, USA.
Dr. Laxmikant Gadhe, PhD 2023
Thesis Title: Alpha-Synuclein Mutations For Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis and Structural Studies.
Present status: Postdoctoral fellow at UT Southwestern Medical School, USA .
Dr. Pradeep Kadu, PhD 2023
Thesis Title: Prebiotic peptide synthesis and Amyloid-Based metal nanocomposite for plasmonic applications.
Present status: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Komal Patel, PhD 2022
Thesis Title: Amyloid-Based Biomaterials as a delivery depot for biotechnology applications
Present status: Program Manager at the Sunita Sanghi Centre of Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases (SCAN), IIT Bombay.
Dr. Debalina Datta, PhD 2022
Thesis Title: p53 : Phase Separation Behavior and Amyloid Formation in Cancer
Present status: Postdoctoral Research at University of California Santa Barbara
Dr. Debdeep Chaterjee PhD 2021
Thesis Title: Aggregation of growth hormone and prolactin associated with secretory granule biogenesis
Present status: Postdoctoral Fellow at Linköping University, Sweden.
Dr. Ambuja Navalkar, PhD 2021
Thesis Title: p53 amyloid formation: implications in cancer pathogenesis
Present status: INSPIRE faculty at NCCS, Pune, India
Dr. Surabhi Mehra, PhD 2020
Thesis Title: Structural and Functional Insights into α-Synuclein Fibril Polymorphism: Implications in Synucleinopathies
Present Status: Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Tanz CRND, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Soumik Ray, PhD 2021
Thesis Title: α-Synuclein aggregation in Parkinson’s disease, Role of liquid-liquid phase separation and membrane binding
Present Status: Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Denmark.
Dr. Rakesh Kumar, PhD 2019
Thesis Title: The study of α-synuclein associated with Parkinson’s disease and development of novel metal catalyst
Present Status: Post Doctoral Research Scientist at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Awarded with Institute’s Award for Excellence in Ph.D.
Dr. Ganesh M Mohite, PhD 2018
Thesis Title: In vitro and in vivo study on α-synuclein familial mutants associated with Parkinson’s disease
Present Status: Postdoctoral Scientist at University of Oxford, UK.
Awarded with Institute’s Award for Excellence in Ph.D.
Dr. Subhadeep Das, PhD 2017 (IITB Monash Research Academy)
Awarded with Prime Minister’s Fellowship for Doctoral Research
Thesis title:”Engineering Amyloid Fibrils for Nanotechnology and Neuronal Cell Regeneration”
Present Status: CEO and Founder, Convalesce Inc, San Francisco, USA.
Awarded with Best Thesis Award, Institute’s Award for Excellence in Ph.D.
Dr. Narendra Nath Jha, PhD 2017
Thesis title: “In Vitro modulation of peptide/protein aggregation associated with functions and diseases.”
Present status: Post doctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University, New York, USA.
Awarded with Institute’s Award for Excellence in PhD
Dr. Shruti Sahay, PhD 2016
Thesis Title: “Probing Site-Specific Conformational Differences In α-Synuclein And its Parkinson’s Disease Associated Mutants”
Present status: Senior Scientist at Just-Evotec Biologics, mos Redmond, Washington, USA
Awarded with Institute’s Award for Excellence in PhD
Dr. Dhiman Ghosh, PhD 2016.
Thesis Title: “Modulation of alpha synuclein aggregation and amyloid formation associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD)”.
Present status: Post doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Awarded with Institute’s Award for Excellence in PhD
Dr. Reeba Susan Jacob, PhD 2015
Thesis Title: “Amyloids: From Functions to Applications”
Present status: Postdoctoral Scientist at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Awarded with Dr. Gargi Vishnoi Memorial Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
Dr. A. Anoop, PhD 2015.
Thesis Title: “Protein aggregation and its implication on secretory granule biogenesis”.
Present status: East Tennessee State University – Biological Sciences as an Assistant Professor.
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Singh, PhD 2014.
Thesis Title: “Study of Protein/Peptide Aggregation Associated with Disease and Native Functions”.
Present status: Associate Professor at JBS Haldane Centre of Molecular Medicine.
Awarded with Institute’s Award for Excellence in PhD
MPhil Students
Saikat Ghosh, MPhil 2016.
Thesis Title: “Role of p53 aggregation and amyloid formation in cancer”.
Present status: Executive Officer (QC-Biosimilars), Serum Institute of India.
Ph.D. Student at Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology, University of Queensland, Australia.
Masters Students
MSc, IIT Bombay, 2025
MSc, IIT Bombay, 2025
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2024
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2024
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2023
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2023
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2022
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2022
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2021
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2020
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2020
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2019
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2019
M.Tech, IIT Bombay, 2020
M.Tech, IIT Bombay, 2017
M.Tech, IIT Bombay, 2017
M.Sc, IIT Bombay, 2017
M.Sc, IIT Bombay, 2017
M.Sc, IIT Bombay, 2017
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2016
M.Sc. IIT Bombay, 2015
MSc, IIT Bombay, 2015
Reena Gautam, M.Tech NIT Surathkal, 2015. Secretory granule biogenesis.
Sanjay P Mondal, MSc IIT Bombay, 2014; α-syn oligomerization using cross-linking. Present status: PhD at IISc, Bangalore, India.
Riddhi Deshmukh, MSc IIT Bombay, 2014 (Co-PI Prof. Santanu Ghosh); p53 aggregation. Present status: PhD at NCBS, Bangalore, India.
Danish Umar, MSc IIT Bombay, 2014; Structure-function relation of amyloid in secretory granule. Present status: PhD at NII, New Delhi.
Santosh Rajan, M.Tech NIT Surathkal, 2013; Purification of human p53 and its aggregation. Present status: PhD at IIT Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.
Kanchana Pandian, MSc University of Madras, 2013; Study of SG biogenesis using protein hormone.
Amresh Kumar, MSc IIT Bombay, 2013; Secretory granule biogenesis.
Sandeep Kumar, MSc IIT Bombay, 2013 (Co-PI Prof. Shamik Sen); Role of Heparin in amyloid formation.
Tarun K Rai, MSc IIT Bombay, 2012; Mechanism of amyloid formation. Present status: PhD at NII, New Delhi, India.
Kushal Das, MSc IIT Bombay, 2012 (Co-PI Prof. Shamik Sen); Amyloid fibrils by α-Syn and its mutants. Present status: PhD at Max Planck, Germany.
Bhagwan Das Dhaked, MSc IIT Bombay, 2012 (Co-PI Prof. Ranjith Padinhateeri); Computational and in vitro studies of amyloid fibrils.
Vasudha Kotia, MSc IIT Bombay, 2011; α-Syn aggregation. Present status: PhD at IIT Bombay with Prof. Santosh Noronha.
Vijay Kumar Gupta, MSc IIT Bombay, 2011; Secretory granules with PRL.
Amrita Singh, MSc IIT Bombay, 2010 (Co-PI Prof. Dulal Panda); Phosphorylation & Glycation of Tau. Present status: PhD at IISc Bangalore, India.
Project Students
Rajeshwari Podder
Mahima Bhat
Sauravi Choudhary
Dipti Sugandh
Princy Parsana
Niyanta Gupta
Shruti Mankar
Ashwani Kumar
Paulami Dutta
Nilesh Kumar
Neha Ruhela
Mrityunjay Mondal
Satyaki Sen
Sravya Paluri
Kimberley John
Sanjana Murali