Principal Investigator
Dr. Shamik Sen
Dr. Sen joined IIT Bombay in July 2010 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering. Dr. Sen earned a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering (1999) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and an M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (2002) from IIT Kanpur. He then moved on to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2007) in the lab of Prof. Dennis Discher. During his Ph.D., he and his co-workers demonstrated for the first time the broad influence of stiffness or rigidity on muscle and stem cell differentiation. Before joining IIT Bombay, he completed postdoctoral training at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, Berkeley, in the lab of Prof. Sanjay Kumar. There, he focused on understanding the contributions of the actin crosslinking protein, a-actinin, to the motility and invasiveness of brain tumor cells.
Lab Members
Post- Docs
Dr. Kumari Neelam Verma
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, 2024
Date of Joining: February, 2025
Project Area: Computational and mathematical modelling of cancer biology, Heat Transfer and fluid mechanics simulation, CFD
Dr. Syed M.S. Abidi
PhD, CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, 2022
PhDs
Niyati Piplani
MSc biotechnology (2016-2018)
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Joined: January 2019
Project area: Cancer Invasion & Drug Resistance
MD Asrafuddoza Hazari
MSc (2018) in Zoology
The University of Burdwan
Joined: January 2019
Project area: Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Aggregation
Vignesh Ganesan
M.Tech.(2018) in Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Joined: January 2019
Project area: Tissue adhesives for wound healing
Yash Deshpande
M. Sc. (2019) in Biotechnology
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Joined: January 2020
Project area: Cancer glycobiology & tumor microenvironment
Swetlana Ghosh
M. Sc. (2021) in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
Joined: January 2022
Project area: MMP9/CD44 crosstalk in cancer invasion
Sumon Saha
M. Sc. (2019) in Zoology
University of Calcutta, Kolkata
Joined: January 2022
Project area: MMP mediated differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in cancer & their roles in cancer metastasis
Gautam Kannan
M. Sc. (2022) in Biotechnology
Banaras Hindu University
Joined: January 2023
Project area: Role of Amyloid-Collagen interaction in Diabetes Mellitus
Nikita Sharma
M.Tech (2023) in Biotechnology
MNNIT-Allahabad
Joined: July 2023
Project area: Localization-dependent proteolytic and non-proteolytic function of MMPs in Cancer
Anisha Karmakar
M.Tech (2023) in Biomedical Engineering
NIT Rourkela
Joined: July 2023
Project area: Computational modelling of tumor heterogeneity
Esha Ghosh
Msc in Microbiology (2023)
St Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Joined: July 2024
Project area: Glycocalyx in cancer invasion and drug resistance
Fenil Parmar
Master Students
Nandhini Krishnamurthy
B.Tech in Biotechnology
SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu.
Joined: June 2024
Project area: Role of glycocalyx in regulating DNA damage.
Akshay Bharati
BSc in Biotechnology
University of Mumbai, Mumbai
Joined: June 2024
Project area: Exosome based diagnostic kit.