PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Sanjeeva Srivastava, Ph.D., is the head of the proteomics facility and a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Currently, he is appointed as a full-time visiting professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University, Arizona State University, and Asian University Alliance Scholarersity Alliance Scholar.
Dr. Sanjeeva Srivastava obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (2006), post-doc from Harvard Medical School (2009), and joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai where he is currently working as a Full Professor. He has established one of the best, state-of-the-art proteomics facility in India, which is equipped with advanced mass spectrometers, microarrays & SPR setups. His research on protein biomarkers of infectious diseases and brain tumors has resulted in 150+ publications & over 20 patents filed, including Nature and Cell press publications. He has been awarded many national and international awards, including the Young Scientist Footstep Awards Canada, the Martha Piper Award for Communications Excellence, the Apple Research Technology Support (ARTS) award UK, the Young Scientist Award from the Department of Atomic Energy & Department of Science Technology India, IIT Bombay’s Young Faculty Award and Prof. S. P. Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Royal Society of Medicine. He is visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University UK, Arizona State University USA, Central South University China, and Asian University Alliance Scholar. Recently, he started the Cancer Moonshot India program to accelerate cancer proteogenomics research and India became part of the International Cancer Proteogenome Consortium (ICPC). He has taught MOOC courses on Proteomics and Proteogenomics to over 25,000 students globally and plays a major role in proteomics education, training and outreach. He is also a scientific filmmaker and his documentaries have entered into national and international film festivals like Berlin World International Film Festival and New York International Film Festivals. He is leading proteomics education and training programs in India and also serves on the Council of Human Proteome Organization (HUPO), executive committee member of the Biology-Disease driven human proteome project (B/D-HPP), Cancer Human Proteome Project (Ca-HPP), and emerged as a leader and catalyst of proteomics research and education globally.

Current Members

Dr. Arghya Banerjee (arghyabanerjee14@gmail.com)
Area of Research: Pituitary
Dr. Arghya’s research focuses on studying the pathobiology of Pituitary Adenomas using the Proteo-Metabolomics approach. He has also worked in SARS-CoV-2 severity prediction using various spectrometry approaches.
Education:
Ph.D. – Proteomics, Biosciences, and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay (2022)
M.Sc. – Biotechnology, University of Burdwan (2014)
B.Sc. – Biotechnology, University of Burdwan (2012)
Joined on: July 2017 as a Doctoral fellow and October 2022 as Post Doctoral fellow

Saicharan Ghantasala (saicharan.ghantasala@gmail.com)
Area of Research: Glioblastomas
Saicharan’s work focuses on understanding the heterogeneity of Glioblastomas and High-grade Astrocytomas using the High throughput Proteomics approach
Education:
M.Sc. – Biotechnology, GITAM University (2010)
B.Sc. – Biotechnology, Andhra University (2008)
Joined on: September 2012 as a project JRF and July 2017 as a Doctoral fellow

Deeptarup Biswas (deeptarupbiswas2020@gmail.com)
Area of Research: Meningioma
Deeptarup’s work involves Biomarker identification and validation, Drug Discovery and Machine Learning
Education:
M.Sc. – Biotechnology, Pondicherry University (2017)
B.Sc. – Microbiology, Calcutta University (2015)
Joined on: January 2019

Ayushi Verma (ayushi.verma228@gmail.com)
Area of Research: Glioma and Glioblastoma
Ayushi’s work involves the study of Glioblastoma multiforme, one of the most aggressive forms of CNS tumors. She is trying to develop a pipeline to identify neoantigens using a two-pronged approach (genomics and MHC-Ligandomics) which could be a potential strategy to identify the targets for cancer immunotherapy. She is also exploring an in-silico molecular docking-based drug repurposing strategy in Gliomas.
Education:
M.Sc. – Biotechnology, IIT Roorkee (2016)
B.Sc.(Hons.) – Biotechnology, Bundelkhand University (2014)
Joined on: January 2019


Amrita Mukherjee (amritam.iitb@gmail.com)

Area of Research: Cervical cancer
Amrita’s work majorly focuses on Squamous Cervical cancer (SCC) patients, which is the most prevalent type of cervical cancer globally. Her study entails locating altered biological pathways and offering a more thorough grasp of the pathobiology of illness in the Indian population.
Education:
M.Sc.- Microbiology, University of Calcutta (2017)
B.Sc. – Microbiology, University of Calcutta (2015)
Joined on: November 2019

Shashwati Parihari (shaswati.parihari@gmail.com)
Area of Research: Breast cancer
Shashwati’s work involves the multi-omics study of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) to identify altered biological pathways and provide a more complete understanding of the TNBC disease pathobiology in the Indian population.
Education:
M.Sc. – Life Sciences, NIT Rourkela (2019)
B.Sc. – Zoology, Ramadevi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar (2017)
Joined on: July 2019


Medha Gayathri J Pai (mgjpai@gmail.com)

Area of Research: Medulloblastoma
Medha’s work is the comprehensive proteomic/metabolomic analysis of Medulloblastoma subgroups to elucidate tumor pathobiology. It involves the study of the most common pediatric brain tumor and its drivers. The work also aims at developing a highly specific clinical assay to differentiate Group 3 and Group 4 patient tumors.
Education:
M.Sc. – Forensic Science, Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (2018)
B.Sc. – Botany, Chemistry and Zoology, Mohanlal Sukhadia University (2016)
Joined on: July 2019


Nirjhar Banerjee (nirjharbanerjee.iitb@gmail.com)

Area of Research: Malaria
Nirjhar is working towards developing a comprehensive diagnostic, and prognostic kit for Malaria. Immuno-based validations of reported protein candidates are being performed, along with finding novel post-translationally modified prognostic markers. Toward a holistic understanding of the severity progression mechanism, a comprehensive metabolomics and lipidomics study is being performed in clinical samples, followed by an integrated analysis of altered proteo-metabolome.
Education:
M.Sc.- Zoology, Savitribai Phule Pune University (2017-2019)
B.Sc.(Hons.) – Zoology, Sarsuna College under University of Calcutta (2014-2017)
Joined on: July 2019


Gautam Sharma (gautamsharma@iitb.ac.in)

Area of Research: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Gautam is working on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), wherein we are looking at the evaluation of the therapeutic effects and the delivery of drug nanoemulsions on the cellular pathways using proteomics approaches.
Education:
M.Tech.- Biomedical Engineering, IIT Bombay (2019)
B.Tech.- Biotechnology, NIT Jalandhar (2018)
Joined on: Joined as a doctoral fellow in July 2019 in Nanomedicine Lab and joined the Proteomics lab on July 2021


Avinash Singh (singhavi739@gmail.com)

Area of Research: Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Avinash’s project deals with Multi-OMICs characterization of oral cancer in the Indian population to understand the molecular mechanisms involved in cancer progression. Further, prioritization and selection of early-stage markers are helpful for the diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics by different validation methods.
Education:
M.Sc.- Biochemistry, Banaras Hindu University
B.Sc.- Zoology (Hons.), Kolhan University
Joined on: January 2020


Ankit Halder (193300001@iitb.ac.in)

Area of Research: Meningioma
Ankit’s work involves using multi-omics methods to understand the different roles of protein and metabolite markers in sera of patients with different meningioma grades to reveal novel and critical therapeutic targets.
Education:
M.Tech-Ph.D.- Biomedical Engineering, IIT Bombay (ongoing)
B.Tech.- Biotechnology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal (2019)
Joined on: January 2020


Surbhi Bihani (surbhibihani.1996@gmail.com)

Area of Research: COVID-19
Surbhi’s research deals with understanding COVID-19 using proteomics-based approaches. Using patient plasma samples, she investigates the humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection using peptide microarray and co-immunoprecipitation coupled mass spectrometry (Co-IP MS). She is also studying the role of the kynurenine pathway during viral infection in the cell line model. Her research also includes metaproteomic analysis of nasopharyngeal swab MS datasets to identify microbial peptides and potential co-infection status in COVID-19 patients.
Education:
M.Sc.- Biotechnology, IIT Roorkee
B.Sc.- Life Science, Delhi University
Joined on: July 2020


Amit Karmakar (ak4667190@gmail.com)

Area of Research: Pituitary Intracranial Tumours
Amit’s work is based on understanding Pituitary Intracranial Tumours with Omics technologies to decipher the disease pathobiology and identify surrogate protein markers.
Education:
M.Sc.- Botany (Microbiology), Visva-Bharati (2022)
B.Sc.- Botany, Visva-Bharati (2020)
Joined on: January 2023


Aparna Chauhan (213300007@iitb.ac.in)

Area of Research: Brain Disease
Aparna’s objective is to analyze in-house and publicly available proteomics data on brain diseases to identify and validate brain disease peptide biomarkers and develop a proteome map for brain diseases, also integrating it into Brainprot. Also involved in developing a novel peptide ranking strategy for defining a list of unique and visible MS Brain disease peptides in Targeted Proteomics.
Mentored by: Deeptarup Biswas
Education:
B.Tech. – Biotechnology, Delhi Technological University (2021)
Joined on: May 2022


Dhanush Borishetty (213300001@iitb.ac.in)

Area of Research: COVID-19
Dhanush had worked on Meta-proteomics profiling of COVID-19 patients. He also analyzes the Proteome data of SARS-CoV-2 infected COVID-19 patients from the literature published worldwide (including in-house data) for integration into the CovProt website. Currently working on identifying the epitopes of the SARS-CoV-2 viruses for Human IgAs and IgGs using Peptide Microarrays.
Mentored by: Surbhi Bihani, Dr. Sakshi Rajoria
Education:
B.Tech .- Biotechnology, B. M. S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru (2021)
Joined on: June 2022


Anvita Pant (215300023@iitb.ac.in)

Area of Research: Breast Cancer
Anvita’s work focuses on Global Proteomics analysis of triple-negative breast cancer patients to elucidate novel biomarkers, differentially regulated proteins, and significantly altered pathways.
Mentored by: Shashwati Parihari
Education:
B.Sc. – Zoology (Hons.), Banaras Hindu University (2021)
Joined on: July 2022


Sourami Biswas (22M0129@iitb.ac.in)

Area of Research: Cervical Cancer
Sourami is currently working on global and targeted proteomics of Squamous Cervical cancer (SCC) samples of the Indian Population and SiHa cell line to elucidate novel biomarkers and differentially expressed proteins.
Mentored by: Amrita Mukherjee
Education:
B.Tech. – Biotechnology, Techno India University, Kolkata (2021)
Joined on: December 2022


Debarghya Pratim Gupta (22m0126@iitb.ac.in)

Area of Research: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Debarghya’s work focuses on identifying novel biomarkers for early diagnosis of COPD using proteomics approaches.
Mentored by: Gautam Sharma
Education:
MSc. – Biochemistry, Banaras Hindu University (2022)
Bsc. (Hons.) – Biochemistry, University Of Calcutta (2020)
Joined on:
December 2022


Archisman Maitra (22n0116@iitb.ac.in)

Area of Research: Meningioma
Archisman’s work focuses on the elucidation of mechanisms involved in chemoresistance shown by high-grade meningiomas and tries to test out novel combinatorial therapies to overcome this resistance for better management of meningioma patients.
Mentored by: Ankit Halder
Education:
B.Sc. – Zoology, Banaras Hindu University (2022)
Joined on: April 2023


Suraj T (22n0122@iitb.ac.in)

Area of Research: Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Suraj’s work focuses on multi-omics characterization of oral cancer in Indian population samples to elucidate novel biomarkers, differently regulated proteins, and altered pathways. Identification of early-stage markers that can help in the diagnosis of the disease.
Mentored by: Avinash Singh
Education:
B.Sc. – Zoology, Sacred heart college, Kochi Kerala (2022)
Joined on: July 2023

Alumni

Dr. Sakshi Rajoria (sakshirajoria@gmail.com)
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Massachusetts
Position in Proteomics Lab: Doctoral Fellow
Work done in Proteomics Lab: COVID-19
Dr. Sakshi’s work focused on the mass-spectrometry-based proteomic investigation of COVID-19 patients to investigate the disease severity and associated therapeutics and also on developing a database containing mutated peptides of SARS-CoV-2.

Dr. Abhilash Barpanda (avilash94@iitb.ac.in)
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Californa, San Francisco
Position in Proteomics Lab: Doctoral Fellow
Work done in Proteomics Lab: Colon Adenocarcinoma
Abhilash studied the proteome changes linked to colorectal cancer in an effort to find prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers. His areas of expertise include high-resolution mass spectrometry instrument operation, data analysis, and interpretation. He primarily worked on LC-MS/MS-based proteome profiling employing targeted, qualitative, and quantitative analysis of clinical samples.

Dr. Gayatri R Iyer (griyer@iitb.ac.in)
Current Position: Scientist at Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, Bengaluru
Position in Proteomics Lab: Post Doctoral Fellow (2022-2023)
Work done in Proteomics Lab: Cancer biomarkers
Dr. Gayatri’s work focused on developing non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring methods for multiple myeloma employing a targeted proteomics approach. Additionally, she worked on subcellular fractionation of pituitary tumors to understand the proteomic profile in disease versus healthy state.

Dr. Divya Nair (20002431@iitb.ac.in)
Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Massachusetts
Position in Proteomics lab: Post-Doc fellow
Work done in Proteomics Lab: Cancer and COVID-19
Dr. Divya has expertise in targeted and global quantitative proteomics of complex biological samples, focusing on identifying therapeutic targets. She has worked on the characterization of modified proteins as an indicator of oxidative stress and screening of natural compounds. Currently, she focuses on biological variation between Group 3 and Group 4 and identifying the differentially expressed proteins among the group.

Prasoon Prakash
Current Position: Business Development Associate at Allen Career Institute
Position in Proteomics lab: MSc. student
Work done in Proteomics lab: Worked extensively on Glioblastoma (a highly malignant brain tumor),investigating the heterogeneity within the tumor across population with the help of proteomics based approaches followed by big data analysis.

Yaadwinder Singh (yaadwindersingh777@gmail.com)
Current Position: Data Analyst at Kennect Inc.
Position in Proteomics lab: MTech. student

Buddhadev Goswami (goswamibuddhadev@gmail.com)
Current Position: Research Scholar at Koita Centre for Digital Health (IIT Bombay)
Position in Proteomics lab: MTech. student

Arijit Mukherjee
Current Position: Research Scholar at National University of Singapore
Position in Proteomics lab: Master’s Student.

Chetanya Gupta (chetanya0007@gmail.com)
Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer at Zycus
Position in Proteomics lab: MTech. student

Akanksha Salkar (akanksha.salkar2806@gmail.com)
Current Position: PhD student, Macquarie University (2023) under Dr. Yuyi You
Current work: Akanksha’s work focuses on understanding the role of neuroinflammation in glaucoma using blood-based biomarkers.
Position in Proteomics lab: Junior research fellow (2020-2022)
Work done in Proteomics lab: I joined the lab at the start of COVID-19 pandemic on a DST-sponsored project on determining COVID-19 biomarkers for severity-based patient stratification. I was involved throughout the project starting from sample collection to data analysis. My tenure at the lab was a great learning curve and will help me a lot in my PhD studies.

Dr. Shalini Aggarwal (shalini.aggarwal@weizmann.ac.il)
Current Position: Post-Doctoral fellow
Current work: Working on the enhancement of the GeneCards suite, especially GeneCaRNA, dealing with non-coding RNA knowledgebase enhancement. Also, guest editor in the special issue “The Role of Non-coding Variants in Human Disease” of the journal “Journal of Translational Genetics and Genomics,” along with Prof. Doron Lancet.
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D. (2017 to 2022)
Work in Proteomics lab: Comprehensive Proteomics Investigation of vivax Malaria towards Developing a Panel for Next-generation Diagnostics and Prognostics

Dr. Mehar Un Nissa
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institute of Systems Biology
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D
Work in Proteomics lab: As a part of her PhD, Dr. Mehar developed a reference proteome and PTM map for one of the important Indian major Carp, Labeo rohita. This work has been selected for the front cover Proteome research. (https://lnkd.in/dX8ycbyg).

Dr. Arup Acharjee (arup@allduniv.ac.in)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Allahabad
Current work: Dr. Acharjee is setting up his new lab at University of Allahabad. His lab’s current research interests lie at the intersection of proteomics, neuroinflammation, and machine learning, focusing on murine models to elucidate the effects of systemic inflammation on brain function. Key areas of study include sepsis-associated encephalopathy using murine models of LPS-induced systemic inflammation. Additionally, the lab plans to investigate the impact of prenatal inflammation on fetal brain proteome, providing insights into neurodevelopmental disorders.
Position in Proteomics lab: Research Scientist (2020-2022)
Work in Proteomics lab: He has been a prolific researcher focused on COVID-19, with significant contributions in the fields of protein microarrays, humoral immune response profiling, and proteomics. His work has helped deepen our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 variants, pathogenesis, and host-pathogen interactions. Dr. Acharjee’s research also explored the implications of COVID-19 on male reproductive function, as well as the identification of prognostic markers for disease severity.

Viswanthram Palanivel (viswanthram.p@gmail.com)
Current Position: PhD student at Macquarie medical School, Sydney, Australia
Current work: Currently working in the field of neuroscience.
Position in Proteomics lab: Junior research fellow (2020-2021)
Work in Proteomics lab: He worked as a JRF on a project to determine global biomarkers for COVID-19 severity progression through proteomics and metabolomics analyses.

Susmita Ghosh (susmitaghosh191996@gmail.com)
Current Position: Doctoral student at Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften
Position in Proteomics lab: Junior Research Fellow
Work in Proteomics lab: Worked on Mass spectrometry proteomic analysis of Meningioma.

Renuka Bankar (renukabankar1993@gmail.com)
Current Position: Application Scientist at Karkinos
Position in Proteomics lab: Junior Research Fellow

Dr. Vipin Kumar Panwar
Current Position: Application Specialist at Cytiva
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D
Work in Proteomics lab: Comprehensive plasma proteomic analysis of non-severe and severe falciparum malaria to investigate disease pathobiology.

Dr. Shuvolina Mukherjee
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Immunotechnology, Lunds University
Current work: Working on the development and validation of potential biomarkers from Ovarian cancer cohort.
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D
Work in Proteomics lab: Investigation of brain tumor malignancies

Dr. Ekta Singh (ektapearl@gmail.com)
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas Medical Branch
Current work: My current research as a post doc fellow involves working with Low frequency Ultrasound for therapeutic applications focusing on its mechanical effects on ageing, diabetes and wound healing
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D

Dr. Manisha Choudhury (choudhury.manisha00@gmail.com)
Current Position: Project Research Associate III at ICMR-RMRCNE, Dibrugarh
Current work: Comprehensive genomics study of nasopharyngeal, esophageal and stomach cancer in North East India population (Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine and Illumina MiSeq, QIAcuity dPCR)
Position in Proteomics lab: Postdoctoral Researcher
Work in Proteomics lab: Proteogenomics studies of breast cancer using tissue and FFPE samples. Identification of protein biomarkers in COVID-19 infected patients using swab and plasma samples.

Yogesh Shelkar (shelkarmicrobio@gmail.com)
Current Position: Research Scientist at Intas Pharmaceuticals
Current work: High-resolution Mass spectrometry Proteomics, Monoclonal Antibody research.
Position in Proteomics lab: Research Assistant

Pinky Sharma (sharmapinky971@gmail.com)
Current Position: Research Analyst at SmartAnalyst
Position in Proteomics lab: Junior Researcher


Dr. Sujata Walunj (sujatawlnj@gmail.com)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Position in Proteomics lab: Project Staff


Shriya Srivastava
Current Position: Doctoral Researcher at Weizmann Institute of Science.
Position in Proteomics lab: Project Assistant.


Avani Yeola
Current Position: Research Officer at NSW Health
Position in Proteomics lab: Junior Research Fellow.


Dr. Swati Kumar
Current Position: Analyst at Costello Medical.
Current work: I work as an Analyst at Costello Medical cross-divisionally between the Literature Reviews & Synthesis and Rare Diseases teams.
Position in Proteomics lab: Project Assistant
Work in Proteomics lab: I was part of a large proteomics project that aimed to identify potential biomarkers for infectious diseases in order to improve diagnosis and aid in prediction of progression of dengue fever to its more severe forms. In addition, I also worked on cloning of a few abundant Plasmodium vivax proteins that were found in majority of parasite samples isolated from blood collected from malaria patients in our mass spectrometry data. We then went on to investigate whether these proteins are present in the serum to evaluate their potential as biomarkers that can distinguish Plasmodium vivax from falciparum.

Dr. Prasad Phapale (prasad.phapale@isas.de)
Current Position: Group leader at Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS, Dortmund
Current work: Group Leader of new junior Metabolomics Research group at ISAS, Dortmund.
Position in Proteomics lab: Postdoctorate Fellow
Work in Proteomics lab: Worked in IITB Proteomics lab for development of HR-LC-MS/MS platforms for Metabolomics and Lipidomics analysis.

Dr. Bhushan Kharbikar
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, San Francisco
Current work: I work on the development of implantable bioartificial organs by integrating a variety of biomaterials, biological cells, Nano/Microelectromechanical systems (NEMS / MEMS), to fully substitute failing patient organs. My research includes all aspects of design, fabrication, packaging, and validation of micromachined biomimetic bioartificial organs. The current focus is particularly on the development of the next generation of the bioartificial pancreas for the treatment of Type-I Diabetes.
Position in Proteomics lab: MTech. student.
Work in Proteomics lab: Developed real time remote triggered hardware in-loop lab for Proteomics.

Dr. Parvez Syed (parvezsyedsyed@gmail.com)
Current Position: Senior R & D Scientist, Olo health
Position in Proteomics lab: Research Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow
Work in Proteomics lab: Lab set-up and development of protocols for the identification of tumor autoantibodies from serum & cerebrospinal fluid using protein microarrays.

Dr. Rajneesh Srivastava (rajneeshsrivastava.iitb@gmail.com)
Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh
Position in Proteomics lab: Project Assistant
Work in Proteomics lab: I processed the human serum samples and analysed the 2D gel-based proteome of infection/ inflammation /pathogenesis of several diseased cases like Falciparum malaria, Vivax malaria, Leptospirosis, Dengue and also in case of Glioblastoma. We deciphered the mechanistic insights of disease pathogenesis/ host immune response and identification of serum protein markers of these widespread infectious diseases.

Dr. Samridhi Sharma (samridhi.pharma9@gmail.com)
Current Position: Research and Development Officer at Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Position in Proteomics lab: Senior Research Fellow
Work in Proteomics lab: The 3.4 years of research work included comprehensive proteomic and metabolomic analysis of different grades of meningiomas and gliomas (brain tumor). These two tumors account for more than 90% of primary intracranial tumors. The project was focused to obtain mechanistic insights about the brain tumor disease pathogenesis; to identify diagnostic/prognostic biomarkers and molecular drug targets for these widespread primary brain tumors.

Dr. Shabarni Gupta
Current Position: Research Officer at Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Position in Proteomics lab: Junior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow [Oct ’13 – Sep ’16]

Dr. Vineet Vaibhav
Current Position: Research Officer at WEHI – The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia.
Position in Proteomics lab: MSc. student

Dr. Sherinmol Thomas (sherintn@gmail.com)
Current Position: Scientist Molecular Biology at BASF Innovation Centre, Ghent.
Position in Proteomics lab: Postdoctoral Researcher
Work in Proteomics lab: Proteomics, Protein-protein interaction studies, halo tag microarray,Cancer(GBM) research and viral proteomics.

Dr. Kruthi Suvarna (kruthisuvarna5@gmail.com)
Current Position: Post doctoral Research Fellow at UT Health San Antonio.
Position in Proteomics lab: Institute Post-doctoral Fellow (IPDF)

Avijit Zutshi (avijitzutshi@gmail.com)
Current Position: Senior Product Manager at AptEdge.
Position in Proteomics lab: Senior Project Technical Assistant.

Dr. Manubhai Kadayil Prabhakaran
Current Position: Research fellow at Harvard Medical School
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D
Work in Proteomics lab: Medulloblastoma

Dr. Apoorva Venkatesh
Current Position: Epidemiology trainee at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D
Work in Proteomics lab: Clinical research in Malaria and Molecular Diagnostics

Dr. Nikita Gahoi
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D
Work in Proteomics lab: Involved in a research project aiming to identify protein biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for early detection of brain tumors.

Dr. Kishore Gollapalli (kishore.columbia@gmail.com / kg2820@cumc.columbia.edu)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University Medical Center
Current work: Working on neurodevelopmental/ neurodegenerative diseases using mouse models to understand disease at the molecular level.
Position in Proteomics lab: M.Sc. – Ph.D. Dual Degree (2009-2017) RA (2017)
Work in Proteomics lab: Worked on different grades of human gliomas using human brain tumor tissue specimens and performed gel-based and mass spectrometry-based proteomics to understand the aggressive nature of high-grade human gliomas over lower-grade tumors. The significance of some of the differentially expressed proteins in tumor progression or suppression was studied in the glioma cell lines.

Dr. Ravinder Kumar
Current Position: Scientist at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D
Work in Proteomics lab: Yeast Proteomics

Dr. Jaypal Panga Reddy
Current Position: Scientist at Nurix Therapeutics
Current work: Scientist II, Identifying selective degraders through global proteomics and developed DDA, DIA and SRM workflows for degrader selectivity
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D
Work in Proteomics lab: Protein-protein and protein-drug interaction analysis that showed that small molecules bind to FtsZ and regulate the FtsZ polymerization dynamics

Dr. Rekha Jain
Current Position: Scientist at Merck Life Sciences
Current work: Application Scientist
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D. and Post Doctoral fellow
Work in Proteomics lab: Role of JAK-STAT interactome in Glioma

Dr. Sandipan Ray
Current Position: Principal Investigator At IIT Hyderabad
Current work: Circadian Rhythms and Disease Biology
Position in Proteomics lab: Ph.D. and Post Doctoral fellow
Work in Proteomics lab: Proteomic Analysis of Serum in Vivax and Falciparum Malaria Patients to Investigate Pathogenesis and Identify Surrogate Protein Markers of Infection

Dr. Sandip Kumar Patel
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
Current work: Working under Dr. Birgit Schilling and Dr. Judith Campisi on Aging.
Position in Proteomics lab: Doctoral fellow
Work in Proteomics lab: Identification of  proteins and small metabolites biomarkers with an aim to stratify severe and non-severe vivax malaria patient sera. Also distinguished malaria and dengue patient sera having overlapping clinical symptoms and prevalent in the same geographical region using Raman spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry.

Dr. Akshay Bhat
Current Position: LIMS Manager, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre For Virus Research.
Current work: I am the Laboratory Informatics Manager for the Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) and provide setup and administer IT and LIMS systems that are linked to new research projects (CVR Crush). I am experienced in managing databases and LIMS systems, and interfacing a variety of instruments and applications. This new facility is established to screen antiviral drugs and inactivating agents against SARS-CoV-2, and other viruses that affect human health and requiring biocontainment.
Position in Proteomics lab: Project Research Associate.
Work in Proteomics lab: Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis of Cancer Alternative Splicing Regulation.

Dr. Anbarasu Karthikaichamy
Current Position: Research Scientist – Algae Engineer 3 at Provectus Algae, Queensland, Australia
Position in Proteomics lab: Doctoral fellow
Work in Proteomics lab: Response of algae to external stimulus (abiotic stress) and harnessing the plastic nature of algae to generate tools for strain development.

Dr. Vivek Srinivas
Current Position: Senior Research Data Steward at Novo Nordisk, Bengaluru, India.
Position in Proteomics lab: Doctoral fellow

Dr. Pranali Deore
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Melbourne.
Current Work: Algae-bacterial symbiosis.
Position in Proteomics lab: Doctoral fellow

Dr. Aditi Apte
Current Position: Research Scientist, KEM Hospital Research Centre
Current Work: Clinical Pharmacologist and Research Scientist.
Position in Proteomics lab: Doctoral fellow