Members

Principal Investigator

Prof. Prakriti Tayalia

Project Research Scientist

Dr. Mamatha M. Pillai

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Dr. Hiteshi Dhami

PhD Scholars

Armaan Siddiqui
Haimanti Mukherjee
Astuti Rani
Manasa Srinivasan
Riyanka Chatterjee
Janhvi Dhongdi
Jaydeep Das
Shivali Patkar
Mayank Singh
Garima Malik
Aijaz Rather

Master’s Project Students

Jatin Dheer
Lalita Yadav

Senior intern

Pranita Shinde

Lab Assistant

Pooja Lokhande

PhD Scholars

Hiren Dandia

Thesis title: Development of 3D Scaffold for In-situ Engineering of T- cells for Solid Tumor Immunotherapy (2024)

Neha Dalal

Thesis title: Injectable and Implantable Acrylated Scaffolds for delivery of Therapeutic Bioactive Components for Biomedical Applications (2023)

Rituparna Saha

Thesis title: Development of bioactive bilayered skin substitutes using eggshell membrane crosslinked cryogels (2022)

Ami Lalit Mehta

Thesis title: Fabrication and development of a blood-brain barrier microfluidic chip to mimic the brain vasculature (2022)

Archana Singh

Thesis title: Development of an in vitro 3D biomimetic tumor model for cancer therapy (2021)

Paresh C. Shrimali

Thesis title: Hydrogels for in situ localized lentiviral gene delivery (2019)

Mathew Peter

Thesis title: Synthetic hydrogel matrices for manipulating 3D cell behaviour (2016)

Post-doctoral Fellows

Dr. Hemavathi Dhandapani (Dec 2020-Apr 2024)

Project Fellows

Ria Vaishampayan (Dec 2021-Jun 2024)

Master’s Project Students

Chakravarthi Marri (MTech 2024)

Sandeep Kumar (MSc 2024)

Dhruba Dutta (MSc 2024)

Sanatan Panda (MTech 2023)

Vishakha Badhe (MTech 2023)

Upasana Ghosh (MSc 2023)