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TDU DOCTORAL PROGRAMME SCHOLARS

(as on 14th February 2020)

Name of the PhD Scholar Aarthi S

Research Topic: Title Rejuvenating the Urban Ecology of Bangalore – The case of water bodies and its surroundings

Name of the Supervisor Prof. H C Chethan

Institute affiliation TDU

Mode of PhD (Full Time/Part Time)

Part Time

Registration Number 11218021215

Date of Registration 06/12/2018

Likely date of completion of PhD 06/12/2022

Availing Fellowship (Yes/No) No

Funding Agency for Fellowship N/A

Name of the PhD Scholar Abdul Mateen

Research Topic: Title Effect of post-harvest processing on phytochemistry, nutritive value and functional benefits of Curcuma longa (Turmeric) & development of process to manipulate these in a controlled manner to design a turmeric based product

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Gurmeet Singh



Full Time




Availing Fellowship (Yes/No) To be availed

Funding Agency for Fellowship Govt. of Karnataka under “PhD Fellowship for Minority Students” scheme

Name of the PhD Scholar Abhinav Yadav

Research Topic: Title Understanding neural basis of general intelligence.

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Axel Brockmann

Institute affiliation NCBS


Full Time




Availing Fellowship (Yes/No) Yes

Funding Agency for Fellowship CSIR

Name of the PhD Scholar Aditya Deshpande

Research Topic: Title Mechanisms regulating transition from an airway cell fate to an alveolar cell fate in response to Bleomycin induced alveolar injury

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Arjun Guha

Institute affiliation inStem


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Ajay Kumar

Research Topic: Title Neuronal control of hematopoiesis in Drosophila larvae

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Tina Mukherjee

Institute affiliation InStem


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship UGC

Name of the PhD Scholar Ajit Kumar Babu

Research Topic: Title Inequalities in the process of agriculturalists learning non-agricultural skills

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Narendar Pani

Institute affiliation National Institute of Advanced Studies


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship NIAS

Name of the PhD Scholar Amandeep Kumar

Research Topic: Title Study of genetic diversity of Aconitum heterophyllum and Aconitum chasmanthum and their root microbiome

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Malali Gowda



Part Time



Likely date of completion of PhD 2022



Name of the PhD Scholar Amrutha M K

Research Topic: Title Steps and Sidesteps in Aesthetics: A Theoretical Study of Thira and Sarpam Thullal in the Backstage of Folk Arts in Kerala

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Sangeetha Menon



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Tata Trusts

Name of the PhD Scholar Anirudh K N

Research Topic: Title Structural and functional characterisation of ANTAR – RNA regulating proteins involved in bacterial two component regulation

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Arati Ramesh

Institute affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Anjana T

Research Topic: Title Modulation of Incretin Effect by Ayurvedic formulations; Applications in Diabetes and Obesity

Name of the Supervisor Dr. C N Vishnuprasad



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship TATA

Name of the PhD Scholar Anjaneyulu Jalagam

Research Topic: Title Scientific evaluation of use of Ayurvedic nootropics in treatment of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases: A mode of action study

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Ashwini Godbole



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship TATA Trusts

Name of the PhD Scholar Ankita Walvekar

Research Topic: Title Role of exo-vesicular Hedgehog and its associated partners in neuronal patterning

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Neha Vyas

Institute affiliation St. John’s Research Institute


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship TATA TRUST FELLOWSHIP

Name of the PhD Scholar Anmol Chowdhury

Research Topic: Title Rethinking the ‘urban wild animal’: Ethologies and ethnographies of nonhuman primates in Indian cities

Name of the Supervisor Anindya Sinha

Institute affiliation NIAS


Full Time



Likely date of completion of PhD 08/2022


Funding Agency for Fellowship European Research Council (Horizon 2020)

Name of the PhD Scholar Aparupa Bhattacherjee

Research Topic: Title Religion in Contemporary Nation Building: A Case Study of Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand

Name of the Supervisor Suba Chandran



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Arockia Catherin M.

Research Topic: Title Role of Interkinetic Nuclear Migration in Epithelial Morphogenesis and Neurogenesis in Vertebrates

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Rajesh Kumar Ladher

Institute affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship ----

Name of the PhD Scholar N. Arun Kumar

Research Topic: Title Flora of Bannerghatta National Park

Name of the Supervisor Dr. K Ravikumar



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Ashalatha K L

Research Topic: Title Molecular Linkages between Parkinson’s disease and Gut Microbiome: effect of Ficus religiosa extract treatment

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Malali Gowda

Institute affiliation The University of Transdisciplinary Health sciences and Technology


Full Time



Likely date of completion of PhD Minimum 3 to 4 years


Funding Agency for Fellowship TataTrusts Fellowship

Name of the PhD Scholar Ashni Kumar Dhawale

Research Topic: Title Monkey on a Hot Tin Roof: Ecological and Behavioural Adaptations of Lion-Tailed Macaques to a Rainforest–Anthropogenic Habitat Matrix in the Western Ghats Mountains of Southern India

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Anindya Sinha



Full Time


Date of Registration 01.06.2018

Likely date of completion of PhD 01.06.2021


Funding Agency for Fellowship Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Name of the PhD Scholar Ashwini K

Research Topic: Title Tracing the Conceptions of Excellence and Understanding Cultural Diversity in Rural and Tribal belts of Karnataka

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Anitha Kurup



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship TCS

Name of the PhD Scholar Ashwini Sahebrao Thakare

Research Topic: Title Study of Ayurvedic nootropics on age related alterations in glucose, lipid and protein homeostasis

Name of the Supervisor Dr. C N Vishnu Prasad



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Aswathi S

Research Topic: Title Host plant mediated changes in the immune response of insect herbivores.

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Radhika Venkatesan



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Avineet Luthra

Research Topic: Title Validation of Ayurvedic Concept of Prakriti from Disease Susceptibility Perspective

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Ravi Muddashetty



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship -

Name of the PhD Scholar Bhavika Mam

Research Topic: Title Odorant-binding proteins in the genomes and proteomes of malaria causing mosquitoes.

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Ramanathan Sowdhamini

Institute affiliation NCBS, Bangalore


Full Time


Date of Registration Provisional: 14/09/2016 Final: 17/11/2017



Funding Agency for Fellowship Tata Trust- TDU PhD Fellowship

Name of the PhD Scholar Bindu Parachalil Gopalan

Research Topic: Title Viral evolution, host exercise and immunity impacting HIV disease progression in children living with HIV in India

Name of the Supervisor Dr Anita Shet

Institute affiliation St John’s Research Institute


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Chandana Rajasekharan Bindu

Research Topic: Title Response to inequalities under divergent development strategies: A study of two villages in Gujarat and Kerala

Name of the Supervisor Prof.Narendar Pani



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship NIAS (Currently), UGC-JRF (Processing)

Name of the PhD Scholar Deblina Sain Basu

Research Topic: Title Role of FMRP in regulation of oxidative stress in lungs

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Arjun Guha



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Deepshikha Kataria

Research Topic: Title Effect of ghee processing methods on development of flavor, Cholesterol oxidation and fatty acid profile of Indian Milk Fat /Ghee


Institute affiliation Institute of Home Economics


Full Time




Availing Fellowship (Yes/No) Sponsored Candidate

Funding Agency for Fellowship Sponsored by Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi

Name of the PhD Scholar Dipankar Khanna

Research Topic: Title To determine if the practice of moral ethical codes (Yama & Niyama) effect crafting creativity and authentic happiness in children between 8 to 12 years of age

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Sisir Roy



Part Time



Likely date of completion of PhD April 2022



Name of the PhD Scholar Dipannita Sarkar

Research Topic: Title Cellular heterogeneity and adaptive regulation in hippocampus

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Hiyaa S. Ghosh

Institute affiliation TIFR-NCBS


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Drisya Dileep

Research Topic: Title Towards a cellular architecture of three dimensional array of muscle fibers in heart

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Minhaj Sirajuddin

Institute affiliation inStem, Bangalore


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Durga Jeyalakshmi Srinivasan

Research Topic: Title Understanding the mechanisms leading to the contrasting pattern of structural remodeling across the amygdala and hippocampus due to chronic stress

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Sumantra Chattarji

Institute affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)


Full Time




Availing Fellowship (Yes/No) PI’s Project Money


Name of the PhD Scholar Gopinath Krishnappa

Research Topic: Title Structure-function analysis of Keap1 BTBBACK-Cullin3 protein complex and identification of BTB inhibitors for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease

Name of the Supervisor Dr. S Thiyagarajan



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Harikrishnan N B

Research Topic: Title Investigations into Learning Algorithms in Intelligent Machines

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Nithin Nagaraj



Full Time



Likely date of completion of PhD 3 to 4 years


Funding Agency for Fellowship Tata Trusts

Name of the PhD Scholar Hinal Bhupendra Kharva

Research Topic: Title Neural basis for speciation in fruit flies, Rhagoletis pomonella

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Shannon Olsson



Full time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Tata Trust

Name of the PhD Scholar Imtiyaz Ibrahim Gulami

Research Topic: Title Understanding regulation of cell fate in lung mediated by senescent cells

Name of the Supervisor Dr.Arjun Guha

Institute affiliation The Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine(inStem)


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Jagannatha Rao

Research Topic: Title A study on ecological status and socio economical dimensions of under exploited medicinal plant, Indian wood apple (Limoniaacidissima), in tropical savanna forests in Karnataka

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Shiddappa Shetty



Part Time


Date of Registration 12/2017




Name of the PhD Scholar Karthikeyan

Research Topic: Title Novel gene variants for congenital heart disease associated with developmental disorders

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Dhandapany Perundurai



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship CSIR-SRF

Name of the PhD Scholar Kisundeo Mehta

Research Topic: Title Diabetes Management Using an Interventional Strategy of Low Carbohydrate Diet or Intermittent Fasting or Both: Evaluation of Exosomes and Metabolite Markers of Disease Progression, Treatment and Outcome

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Satish P Ramachandra Rao



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship UGC, Kathmandu India Science Research Fellowship 2019

Name of the PhD Scholar Manal Shakeel

Research Topic: Title Neural basis of sugar-elicited search behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Axel Brockmann



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship ICMR

Name of the PhD Scholar Manisha

Research Topic: Title Olfactory modulation by Dopamine in context of Drosophila Hematopoiesis

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Tina Mukherjee



Full Time


Date of Registration 10/2018



Funding Agency for Fellowship DST-INSPIRE

Name of the PhD Scholar Meghna Das

Research Topic: Title Natyashastra and choreographic techniques

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Vivek Dhareshwar

Institute affiliation Srishti


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Michelle Ninochka D’souza

Research Topic: Title Translation regulation of Fragile X mental retardation Protein through its interaction with ribosome

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Dasaradhi Palakodeti



Full time






Name of the PhD Scholar Mohak Sharda

Research Topic: Title Computational study of genetic variation contributed by different mechanisms in prokaryotes

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee

Institute affiliation National Center for Biological Sciences


Full time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Department of Biotechnology (DBT)

Name of the PhD Scholar Mohamed Shafi K

Research Topic: Title Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Moringa species to Understand Key Antidiabetic and Nutritive Values

Name of the Supervisor Dr. C N Vishnu Prasad



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship INFOSYS

Name of the PhD Scholar Mohammad Shariq

Research Topic: Title Molecular regulation of mature neuronal maintenance

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Hiyaa Ghosh

Institute affiliation NCBS-TIFR


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Nandashree Kasturacharya

Research Topic: Title Role of dSTIM in post embryonic neuronal development of Drosophila Melanogaster

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Gaiti Hasan



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship DST-WOSA under MSc Category

Name of the PhD Scholar Neerja Harishchandra Rastogi

Research Topic: Title Study of Mandur bhasma: Effect of Triphala/Trikatu/Triharidra and selected phyto- organic acids on in vitro iron bioavailability and oxidative stress.

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Shobha Udupi



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Neha V Kalmankar

Research Topic: Title Sequencing, structure analysis & biological activity studies of Cyclotides, from the medicinal plant, Clitoria ternatea

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Radhika Venkatesan



Full Time


Date of Registration



Funding Agency for Fellowship Tata Trust Fellowship

Name of the PhD Scholar Niharika Sharma

Research Topic: Title Parāsamvit and Pratyabhijñā: An Onto-Epistemic Enquiry in Kashmir Shaivism

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Sangeetha Menon



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship TATA Trust

Name of the PhD Scholar Nisha Ann Viswan

Research Topic: Title Modeling synaptic events in Fragile X Syndrome and healthy control.

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Upinder S Bhalla

Institute affiliation National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship DBT-JRF

Name of the PhD Scholar Nishant Singh

Research Topic: Title Hair cells development and differentiation




Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship No

Name of the PhD Scholar Nitesh S Anchan

Research Topic: Title ‘Other Minds: Philosophical and Empirical Approaches in the Conceptualisation of the Nonhuman minds’

Name of the Supervisor Supervisor: Prof. Anindya Sinha Co-supervisor: Prof. Sundar Sarukkai

Institute affiliation National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Nitish Sathyanarayanan

Research Topic: Title Synthetic biology of Ursolic acid and its derivatives

Name of the Supervisor Prof. S. Ramaswamy

Institute affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Prime Minister’s Fellowship from Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

Name of the PhD Scholar Nivedita Hariharan

Research Topic: Title Exploring translation regulation landscape critical

for Stem Cell function

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Dasaradhi Palakodeti



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Nutan Sham Nabar

Research Topic: Title ‘A Study of Ayurvedic Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutics of Madhumeha (Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus): An Untapped Potential for New Drug Discovery’

Name of the Supervisor Supervisor: Dr. Ashok Vaidya Co-Supervisor: Dr. C N Vishnuprasad



Part Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Pankaj Dutta

Research Topic: Title Study on impact of ethno-veterinary herbal preparations on antimicrobial resistance

Name of the Supervisors Dr. N Punniamurthy, Dr. SK Rana, Dr. MNB Nair

Institute affiliation National Dairy Development Board, Anand, Gujarat


Part Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Pavana Thomas

Research Topic: Title Role of RhoC in Regulation of Stemness in Cervical Carcinoma

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Sweta Srivastava

Institute affiliation St. John’s Research Institute


Full time






Name of the PhD Scholar Praneetha Paul

Research Topic: Title Study of the Impact and the Potential of Ecotourism in the Protected Areas of Chhatitsgarh

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Abdul Kareem



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Prasan Shankar

Research Topic: Title Evaluation of Immunomodulatory Effects of Ayurveda Rasayana Formulations and its Application in Atherosclerosis

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Subramanya Hosahalli

Institute affiliation IAIM Healthcare Center


Part Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship None as of now – Applications in progress

Name of the PhD Scholar Prathima C L

Research Topic: Title Study on the effects of processing on the bioburden, nutritional profile, organoleptic characters and phytochemical composition of selected Indian botanicals


Institute affiliation Natural Remedies Pvt. Ltd.


Part Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Pratul Kumar Jain

Research Topic: Title Molecular mechanism and potential therapeutic drugs for RASopathy related cardiomyopathies

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Dhandapany Perundurai



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship DBT

Name of the PhD Scholar Rajashree G Mavinkurve

Research Topic: Title Exploring Socio-economic perspective and Refocusing on Novel Biodynamic Effects of Traditional Formulations

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Debabrata Saha



Part Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Rajesh Subrahmanya Kallaje

Research Topic: Title Analysis of the Implementation of Forest Rights Act of 2006 in Select Districts of Chhattisgarh and Karnataka

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Abdul Kareem



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Rakesh Kumar

Research Topic: Title Community, Cultural and Indigenous Healing Practices of Nilambur Valley, Kerala: A Study of Cross-Cultural Landscape Across Ethnic Boundaries

Name of the Supervisor Supervisor: Prof Sangeetha Menon Co-supervisor: Prof. Vasant S. Shinde



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Tata Trust

Name of the PhD Scholar Rashmi Kiran Godbole

Research Topic: Title To understand the mechanism and function of an endocytic pathway termed as the CLIC (Clathrin independent carrier)/ GEEC (GPI-AP enriched early endosomal compartment)

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Satyajit Mayor



Full Time


Date of Registration Provisional: 05/03/2018



Funding Agency for Fellowship CSIR UGC Net

Name of the PhD Scholar Reshma T V

Research Topic: Title Investigating the impact of replicative structure on global gene expression patterns and evolution of bacteria

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Aswin SaiNarain Seshasayee

Institute affiliation NCBS TIFR


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship CSIR SRF

Name of the PhD Scholar Sathya Sangeetha M.

Research Topic: Title Study on impact of harvest on the ecology, population, traditional ecological knowledge, distribution, trade status of Decalepis hamiltonii Wight & Arn

Name of the Supervisor Dr. K. Ravikumar



Full Time


Date of Registration 14/12/2015 Confirmed: 01/06/2017




Name of the PhD Scholar Santosha N Hegde

Research Topic: Title Study of Microbiome of Drinking Water and its Impact on Human Health

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Subrahmanya Kumar



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Sarayu R.

Research Topic: Title Investigation of the role of dysregulated activity mediated protein synthesis in causing synaptic defect in Alzheimer's disease

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Ravi Muddashetty



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship DBT (Department of Biotechnology)

Name of the PhD Scholar Savitha Dattatri Nadig

Research Topic: Title To understand specific molecular mechanisms that govern RNA mediated signaling in Staphylococcus aureus

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Malali Gowda



Part Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship DST (WOS-A)

Name of the PhD Scholar Shaima Amatullah

Research Topic: Title Responses to Social Discourses on Muslims in India (Tentative title)

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Shalini Dixit



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship National Institute of Advanced Studies

Name of the PhD Scholar Shilajit Sengupta

Research Topic: Title Political Consequences of Intra-village Inequalities in Rural Transformation: A Study of Two Villages in West Bengal

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Narendar Pani

Institute affiliation National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore

Name of the PhD Scholar Shivanand Basappa Savatagi

Research Topic: Title Inter sectoral public health policy under the domain of One Health

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Prashanth N S

Institute affiliation IPH, Bangalore


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Friends of Hope Trust, UK-London

Name of the PhD Scholar Shreya ParthaDas Sharma

Research Topic: Title The characterization of the electrophysiological properties of human stem cell derived neurons from Fragile X patients


Institute affiliation InSTEM


Full Time



Likely date of completion of PhD 2020-21

Availing Fellowship (Yes/No) Yes – PI’s grant


Name of the PhD Scholar Shridevi Gothe

Research Topic: Title Development of iron rich functional food with superior bio-assimilation – Product design strategies and process development




Part Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Shruti Ragavan

Research Topic: Title Of cash cows and piggy banks? Natures, Cultures and Politics of the Cultivated Animal in Urban India

Name of the Supervisor Anindya Sinha

Institute affiliation National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Shyam Hari P.

Research Topic: Title Understanding Political Conflict and Alliance Formation: A Case Study of Two Villages in Kerala

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Anshuman Behera



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship NIAS Fellowship

Name of the PhD Scholar Siddhesh Deepak Dholam

Research Topic: Title To study Cancer promotive and regressive activity of bovine biological fluids in conjugation with selected phytomolecules




Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Bombay Gowrakshak Trust Fellowship

Name of the PhD Scholar Sneha Gutgutia

Research Topic: Title Life at the Urban Margins: Human-Animal Relations and Precarity in Indian cities

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Anindya Sinha



Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Snehashish Mitra

Research Topic: Title Contesting Settlements on the Hills of Guwahati: A Study of Urban Political Ecology in Northeast India

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Carol Upadhya



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship National Institute of Advanced Studies

Name of the PhD Scholar Somashekhar B Srikantiah

Research Topic: Title Cultural Knowledge of Indigenous Communities in the Western Ghats, as Configurations of Environmentally Significant Attitudes (“Conservation means Behavior” & “Conservation is un-Intentional”)

Name of the Supervisor Dr. M N B Nair



Part Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Sonia Das

Research Topic: Title A study of built heritage in unprotected environs of Nalanda

Name of the Supervisor Dr. M.B. Rajani



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

Name of the PhD Scholar Srisrividhiya K.

Research Topic: Title The Porous Self: Crafting an intrinsic ecological consciousness: Porosity as principle and practice through text, image and movement

Name of the Supervisor Geetha Narayanan

Institute affiliation Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology


Part Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Subhashini Pandey

Research Topic: Title Cationic lipids mediated shRNA delivery to knockdown lineage-specific BCL11A for the expression of human fetal (γ-) globin in Sickle Cell Anemia

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Praveen Kumar Vemula

Institute affiliation INSTEM-NCBS


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Lady Tata Memorial Trust

Name of the PhD Scholar Suma K J

Research Topic: Title Effect of a therapeutic course of Virechana on Gut microbiota, metabolic and immunological factors in Obese individuals

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Malali Gowda



Part Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Surya Sankar Sen

Research Topic: Title Implications of Local Conflicts on Bilateral Relations: Cases of Land Boundary and Enclave Conflicts on India-Bangladesh Relations

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Anshuman Behera

Institute affiliation NIAS Bangalore


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship NIAS Fellowship

Name of the PhD Scholar Syed Fazil Ahamed S.

Research Topic: Title Dengue Infections in India – Molecular detection,

epidemiology and anti-dengue efficacy of an Indian

polyherbal formulation

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Anita Shet

Institute affiliation St. John’s Research Institute, Bangalore


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Tanu Jain

Research Topic: Title Nanoparticle based targeted oral drug delivery platform for Inflammatory bowel disease

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Praveen Kumar Vemula

Institute affiliation InStem, NCBS


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship DST-INSPIRE

Name of the PhD Scholar Thanuja Gangisetty

Research Topic: Title Structure and functional studies of N-acetyl mannosamine kinases (NanKs) from pathogenic bacteria.

Name of the Supervisor Prof. Ramaswamy S

Institute affiliation InStem, Bangalore


Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship CSIR-SRF

Name of the PhD Scholar Umer Farooq

Research Topic: Title Role of super enhancer in transcriptional regulation of INK4a/ARF locus

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Dimple Notani

Institute affiliation NCBS, Bangalore


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Varghese Thomas

Research Topic: Title Comprehensive literature work to study multiple identities of medicinal plants in the literature of Ayurveda and a Trans-Disciplinary methodology to understand ‘Shankhapushpi’ in detail

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Ashwini Godbole



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Dr Sadashiva & Radha Shastri Memorial Fellowship

Name of the PhD Scholar Varsha N T

Research Topic: Title Investigating the biomechanics of epithelial fusion using otic vesice closure as a model




Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship CSIR-JRF

Name of the PhD Scholar Veeraja Loke

Research Topic: Title Metabolic and Inflammatory damages: Effect of β-casomorphin -7




Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship Bombay Gowrakshak Trust Fellowship

Name of the PhD Scholar Vijayakumar K

Research Topic: Title Characterization and interventional strategies in novel transgenic rat models of Autism spectrum disorder


Institute affiliation InSTEM


Full Time




Availing Fellowship (Yes/No) Senior Research Fellowship Project funded by Supervisor

Funding Agency for Fellowship DBT

Name of the PhD Scholar Vijaykumar Sangamesh Kotrannavar

Research Topic: Title Preparation Standardisation and Pharmacological Screening of Shilajitu Rasayana

Name of the Supervisor Dr. Subrahmanya Kumar

Institute affiliation Shri J G Co-Operative Hospital Society’s Ayurvedic Medical College


Part Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Vinay Mahajan

Research Topic: Title Observational analysis of ayurvedic principles, ayurvedic hospital data, and patient outcomes

Name of the Supervisors Dr. Girish Tillu, Dr. Ashwini Mathur

Institute affiliation I-AIM


Full Time






Name of the PhD Scholar Vivekanand V R

Research Topic: Title An evidence based framework for Ayurvedic management of Apasmara

Name of the Supervisors Dr. Ashwini Godbole



Full Time





Funding Agency for Fellowship TATA TRUSTS

Name of the PhD Scholar Zarnain Mansoor

Research Topic: Title Discourses around the Kashmiri Pandits: Engaging with the ‘Fractured Identify’ and the ‘Politics of Deadlock’

Name of the Supervisors Dr. Anshuman Behera

Institute affiliation National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)


Full Time






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