Members

Principal Investigator

Prof. Prakriti Tayalia

Project Research Scientist

Dr. Mamatha M. Pillai

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Dr. Hemavathi Dhandapani
Dr. Hiteshi Dhami

PhD Scholars

Hiren Dandia
Garima Malik
Aijaz Rather
Armaan Siddiqui
Haimanti Mukherjee
Astuti Rani
Manasa Srinivasan
Riyanka Chatterjee
Jaydeep Das
Shivali Patkar

Master’s Project Students

Chakravarthi Marri
Sandeep Kumar
Dhruba Datta

Project Fellow

Ria Vaishampayan

Lab Assistant

Pooja Lokhande

PhD Scholars

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)

Master’s Project Students

Sanatan Panda (MTech 2023)

Vishakha Badhe (MTech 2023)

Upasana Ghosh (MSc 2023)