Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IITB-Monash Research Academy

Research Projects

Research will be conducted in a team-based approach. Research in The Academy will be truly multi-disciplinary which will allow discoveries to be made at the interface of disciplines.

The Academy’s intention is to organise research into classes of problems that seeks to address a key research-theme or sector-goal.

Eight key research themes have been identified:

Research Themes	Project Number	Monash University Supervisor	IIT-Bombay Supervisor	Project Title	Project Status
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0611	Jonathan Keith	Siuli Mukhopadhyay	Temporal Models for Disease Mapping	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0423	Sunita Chauhan	Main Supervisor : Atul Srivastava Co-Supervisor : Suneet Singh	Development and Applications of Steady State and Frequency Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography Technique for Deep Tissue Imaging	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0470	Main Supervisor:Dr. Jennifer Flegg, Dr. Jerome Droniou	Main Supervisor: Dr. Neela Nataraj	Multiphase mathematical modelling of tumour spheroid growth under drug treatment	Candidate Required
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0733	Prabhakar Ranganathan	Sameer Jadhav	Modeling and simulations of propulsion and swimming in microorganisms	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0619	Kellie Tuck	Krishna P.Kaliappan	Design and Synthesis of Small Organic Molecules as Blockers of Neuronal Calcium Ion Channels Relevant to Neuropathic Pain	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0781	Lisandra Martin	Ajay Singh Panwar	Amyloid formation in frog peptides: Exploring peptide-lipid interactions	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0719	Glen Deacon	Bayden Wood IITB Supervisor: Prasenjit Ghosh	Designing palladium based N?heterocyclic carbene complexes for anticancer application	Candidate Required
Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0750	Tuncay Alan	Venkat Gundabala	Microfluidic route to generation of core-shell fibers for drug delivery	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0785	Mibel Aguilar	Shobhna Kapoor	Role of bacterial sugar-based lipids in mediating membrane-induced cell death.	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research, Design	IMURA0784	Mibel Aguilar Monash Co-supervisor: John Lee	Shobhna Kapoor	Characterizing membrane mimetic biosensors: Towards cell free antibiotic drug screening	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0787	Gregory Moseley	Kiran Kondabagil Sanjeeva Srivastava	Finding cues for metabolism inside giant virus particles Are giant viruses ´alive´?	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0790	Ravi Jagadeeshan Monash Co-supervisor: Mark M. Banaszak Holl	Ranjith Padinhateeri	Chromatin as a polyelectrolyte: DNA-bending and 3D organization	Candidate Required
Water, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0449	Santosh Panjikar	Ruchi Anand	Structural characterisation of enzymes for biotechnological application in microbial degradation of water pollutants	Candidate Allotted Sukritee Bhaskar
Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0160	Dan Li	Dhirendra Bahadur	Graphene-based ferromagnetic Nanomaterials.	Candidate Allotted Swain Akshaya Kumar
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0331	Kellie Tuck Also includes an external supervisor from CSIRO	Krishna P. Kaliappan Also includes an external supervisor from CSIRO	Design and Synthesis of Small Organic Molecules as Blockers of Neuronal Calcium Ion Channels Relevant to Neuropathic Pain	Candidate Allotted Anjali Sairaman
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0673	Ranjith P.G.	Kumar Hemant Singh	Study of Gas hydrates using effective medium theory and rock physics modeling	Candidate Allotted Anup Kumar Shahi
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0197	Arthur Christopoulos John Simms Patrick Sexton	Santosh Noronha	Development of novel methods for prediction of transmembrane protein structure and drug binding	Candidate Allotted Bhumika Arora
Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0221(A)	Andrew Hoadley Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Anuradda Ganesh Sanjay Mahajani Santanu Bhandopadhyay Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Techno-economic evaluations of Biomass gasification with carbon capture for syngas feedstock to ammonia production	Candidate Allotted Pratham Arora
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0085	Paul Verma	Dulal Panda	Generation and characterization of induced pluripotent cells (iPSCs) and studying checkpoint mechanism in human somatic cells and iPSCs	Student completed Jubina Balan
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0106	Chao Chen	P.S. Gandhi	Dynamics and control of parallel robotic manipulator with end effector constraints	Candidate Allotted Rupesh Bobade S
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0132	Paul Verma	Rinti Banerjee	In situ gelling Nano-particulate systems for tissue engineering using stem cells	Candidate Allotted Edmund Carvalho
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0084	Brian Cooke Ross Coppel	Swati Patankar	Functional properties and arrangement of apicomplexan tubulin and the action of anti-tubulin compounds as chemotherapeutic agents	Student completed Rimi Chakrabarti
Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0207	John Forsythe	Samir Maji	Engineering amyloid fibrils for Nanotechnology and neuronal cell regeneration	Candidate Allotted Subhadeep Das
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0628	Adrian Neild	Santosh Noronha	Development of paper based Point of Care microfluidic diagnostic devices	Candidate Allotted Gargi Mukhopadhyay
Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0305	John Beardall Madhu Chetty Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance	Pramod Wangikar Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance	Enhanced and desirable lipid synthesis in algae for efficient Biofuel production	Candidate Allotted Akhila George
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0198	Nick Birbillis	A.S Khanna	Development of hydrophobic / Hydrophilic Coatings by Sol-gel route using fatty acids modified Nanomaterials.	Student completed Wankhede Ruchi Grover
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0241	Milton Hearn Reinhard Boysen	Ruchi Anand	Investigation of Butyrolactone like Small Molecules in Regulation of AntiBiotic Production in Streptomyces	Candidate Allotted Bhukya Hussain
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0616	Neil Cameron	Anil Kumar	Design, Synthesis and Application of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Continuous Flow Synthesis	Candidate Allotted Karuna Veeramani
Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0675	Wenlong Cheng	Dipti Gupta	Wearable electrophysiological sensing devices for health monitoring	Candidate Allotted Manasi Prashant Kane
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0150	Madhu Chetty	Pramod Wangikar	Modeling and inference of gene regulatory network	Candidate Allotted Ajay Nair
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research and Clean Energy	IMURA0300	John Beardall Sankar Bhattacharyya Also includes an external supervisor from JSW	Pramod Wangikar	Investigations on CO2 sequestration with algae under dry and hot ambient conditions	Candidate Allotted Prachi Varshney
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0046	K. Hourigan Paul Verma	J Bellare Sameer Jadhav	Optimization and Designing of Bioreactors for Stem Cell applications	Student completed Priyanka Gupta
Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0679	Tuncay Alan	Debjani Paul	Exploring the adhesive property of sickle cell of improved diagnosis	Candidate Allotted P R Kamal Prakash Nair
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0089	Prabhakar Ranganathan Ravi Jagadeeshan	P. Sunthar R. Thaokar	Biomembrane hydrodynamics	Candidate Allotted Kavali Venkata Ramesh
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0294	Gil Garnier	V.Ramgopal Rao	Low-cost affinity Biosensor for Cardiac application	Candidate Allotted Sadhana Dwivedi
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0099	Paul Verma	Dulal Panda	Generation and characterization of cell cycle regulation of induced pluripotent cells (iPSCs)	Candidate Allotted Saroj Yadav
Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0190	Qizhi Chen	Dhirendra Bahadur	Dendrimer functionalized magnetic Nano-particles as promising targeted delivery systems for gene and peptides.	Candidate Allotted Saumya Nigam
Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0221(B)	Andrew Hoadley Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Anuradda Ganesh Sanjay Mahajani Santanu Bhandopadhyay Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA	Techno-economic evaluations of coal and Biomass pyrolysis with carbon capture for syngas feedstock to ammonia production	Candidate Allotted Ishan Sharma
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0033	Ravi Jagadeeshan Tam Sridhar	P. Sunthar	Flow based Micro-devices for DNA Manipulation and analysis	Student completed Sharadwata Pan
Clean Energy,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0453	Main Supervisor: Dr. Antonio Patti Co- Supervisor: Dr. Douglas Macfarlane	Main Supervisor: Amit Arora	Biobased chemicals production from macroalgae	Candidate Allotted Shivali Banerjee
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0678	Karlheinz Peter	Rinti Banerjee	Smart Nanoparticles for Detection of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaques and their Therapeutic Stabilisation	Candidate Allotted Sourabh Mehta
Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0666	Antonio Patti	Amit Arora	High Quality Protein Extraction From Plant Based Sources	Candidate Allotted Subramoni Hariharan
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0728	Santosh Panjikar	Ashutosh Kumar	Probing structure and recognition dynamics of proteins from SCF complex ubiquitin ligase	Candidate Allotted Sukanya Dikshit
Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0102	Raman Singh	A.S Khanna	Nano structured Silane Coatings for Magnesium Alloys in Bio medical Implant Applications	Candidate Allotted Swati
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0684	Rommel Mathias Monash Co Supervisor: Sunil K Lal	Kiran Kondabagil	Identification of human host factors required for human influenza virus assembly and budding	Candidate Allotted Vibha Kumari
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0660	Neil Cameron	Anil Kumar	Design, Synthesis and Application of biocatalysts for Continuous Flow Synthesis	Candidate Alloted Aman Pandey
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0328	Prabhakar Ranganathan	Sameer Jadhav	Modeling and simulation of collective surface colonization by swarms of motile bacteria	Candidate Allotted Amarender Nagilla
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0689	Nicolas Voelcker	Prasanna Gandhi	Blood brain barrier (BBB) on chip	Candidate Alloted Ami Mehta
Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0304	Dieter Bulach Ross Coppel Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance	Sanjeeva Srivastava Santosh Noronha Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance	Generating Live gene expression tools for use in algal molecular manipulation	Candidate Allotted Anbarasu Karthikaichamy
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0366	Anurag Sharma Also includes an external supervisor from CTARA	N G Shah	Linkages of HDI to Nutrition in a Transient Economy of India	Candidate Alloted Harini Swaminathan
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0363	Antonio Patti	Amit Arora Co-Supervisor: Doug Mac Farlane	Extraction of bioactive compounds from horticultural processing waste	Candidate Alloted Jhumur Banerjee
Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0334	Lizhong He Wei Shen	Santosh Noronha	Engineering advanced enzyme biocatalysts for synthesis of chiral drug intermediates	Candidate Alloted Maanya Gaur
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0422	Sunita Chauhan	Atul Srivastava	Multi-physics numerical modelling for bio-effects mapping and controlled delivery of ablation dosage in Oncological applications	Candidate Allotted Pragya Gupta
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0444	Dr. Jane Muir, Co-supervisor: Prof Peter Gibson	Amit Arora	Development of Health foods from xylan rich sources	Candidate Allotted Ramkrishna Singh
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0694	Nicolas Voelcker	Jayesh Bellare	Ophthalmic drug delivery with porous silicon	Candidate Alloted Shachi Saluja
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0716	David A. Jans	Swati Patankar	The novel nuclear transport molecule importing from Plasmodium falciparum; potential drug target	Candidate Alloted Sujata Walunj
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture,Clean Energy,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research.	IMURA0364	Mohan Yellishetty Shankar Bhattacharya also includes an external supervisor from JSW also	Yogendra Shastri	Robust design and operation of thermochemical processing of municipal solid waste	Candidate Allotted Vibhuti Chhabra
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0474	Main Supervisor: Professor Murray Rudman	Main Supervisor: Professor Devang Kharkhar	Deep in the Lung: Nano-particle transport and deposition in alveolar flows	Candidate Allotted Chitresh Kumar Bhargava
Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0303	John Beardall Madhu Chetty Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance	Sanjeeva Srivastava Santosh Noronha Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance	Strategies to control grazer growth in algal cultures	Candidate Allotted Pranali
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0477	Prof. Ralf Schittenhelm	Prof. Santanu K Ghosh	Elucidating the mechanism of functions of chromatin remodeler in Candida albicans	Candidate Allotted Vinutha
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0333	Nikhil Medhekar	Tanmay K. Bhandakkar	Simulations of fracture in neurological tissues	Candidate Allotted Aayush Kant
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture,Nanotechnology,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0393	Prabhakar Ranganathan	Sameer Jadhav	Using fast and efficient computer simulations for understanding the mechanobiology of sperm motion in the design of artificial reproduction technologies	Candidate Alloted Ashwin Nandagiri
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0330	Murray Rudman Also includes external supervisors from CSIRO	Devang Khakhar Also includes external supervisors from CSIRO	Frontiers of Chaotic Advection: Transport in Three-dimensional Volume-preserving Flows	Candidate Alloted BHARATH RAVU
Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture,Nanotechnology,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0420	Lisandra Martin	Ajay Singh Panwar	Aggregation of frog peptides: a model for amyloidogeniesis	Candidate Alloted Sourav Ray
Clean Energy,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0381	Doug McFarlane Co supervisor Tam Sridhar	Santosh Noronha One Supervisor from Reliance Industries Ltd	Solvent assisted cellulose depolymerization	Candidate Alloted Vasudha Kotia
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0798	Ravi Jagadeeshan	P. Sunthar	Modelling subdiffusive motion of bacteriophage within mucus	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0806	Yuan Fang Li	Ganesh Ramakrishnan	Application of Artificial Intelligence in human genomics	Candidate Required
Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0822	Prof. Antonio Patti, Co-supervisor: Prof. Phil Andrews	Dr. Amit Arora	Pectin Based films/gels for antibiotic/antifungal applications	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0823	Prof. Antonio Patti, Co-supervisor: Prof Victoria Haritos	Dr. Amit Arora, Co-supervisor: Dr. Yogendra Shastri	Development of green biorefinery technologies from food processing waste	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0857 BASF Sponsored Project	Prof. Antonio Patti, Co-supervisor: Prof Victoria Haritos	Prof. Amit Arora, Co-supervisor: Prof. Yogendra Shastri	Development of green biorefinery technologies from lignocellulosic feedstock	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0876	Prof. Raman Singh	Prof. M.J.N.V. Prasad Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani	Biocompatible Coatings for Magnesium Alloys in Biomedical Implant Applications	Candidate Allotted Keerthiga Ganeshan
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0877	Prof. Raman Singh	Prof. M.J.N.V. Prasad Prof. Vijayshankar Dandapani	Magnesium Alloys as Biodegradable Human Implant Devices: Circumventing Human Body Fluid-assisted Catastrophic Fracture	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0755	Prof. Tanja Junkers	Prof.Anil Kumar	Biopolymers: Design, Synthesis and Process intensification via Continuous Flow	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0885 Reliance Sponsored	Dr Sonika Tyagi	Dr Mithun Mitra	Application of Artificial Intelligence in human genomics	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0886	Prof. Karlheinz Peter Dr.Xiaowei Wang	Prof. Rinti Banerjee	Theranostics hydrogel particles for arterial -thrombosis	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture,Nanotechnology Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0888	Prof.Lisandra Martin Dr.Alexandr N. Simonov	Prof.Ajay Singh Panwar	Dynamics of Redox Proteins & Enzymes: theory and experiment	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0889	Prof. Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan Aoos. Prof. Rico Tabor	Prof.P. Sunthar	Modelling dynamics and flow for soft fibre systems	Candidate Allotted Vishwesh Rai
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0901	Prof. Ranjith Padinhateeri	Prof.Ravi Jagadeeshan	Understanding chromatin folding dynamics through molecular simulations	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0904	Prof.Neil Cameron	Prof.Prakriti Tayalia	Development of scaffolds for in vitro culture of immune cells	Candidate Allotted Satyarthi Mishra
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0907	Dr. Ralf Schittenhelm	Dr. Santanu K. Ghosh	Investigation of qualitative and quantitative composition of kinetochore complex in mitosis and meiosis using yeast as eukaryotic model	Candidate Allotted Anjani Mittal
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0909	Prof. Santiago Badia	Prof. Alankar Alankar	Physics Informed Deep Neural Network for Solid Mechanics – Application to Soft Biomaterials	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0910	Prof. Santiago Badia	Prof. Alankar Alankar	Phase-Field Mechanics of a Porous, Smart Biomedical Material	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0917	Prof. Raman Singh Emeritus Prof. Rhys Jones	Prof Alankar Alankar	Data Science coupled Multiscale Mechanics for Understanding Fatigue Behaviour of 3D Printed Ti6Al4V Alloy	Candidate Allotted Kushagra Tiwari
Nanotechnology,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0944	Dr.Leonie van’t Hag	Dr.Nand Kishore	Hybrid Lipid-Protein Based Nano Drug Delivery Systems	Candidate Required
Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0953	Prof. Antonio Patti Prof. Tanja Junkers	Prof. Prof. Anil Kumar Prof. Amit Arora	Application of Continuous Flow Processing in Valorisation of Fruit and Vegetable Waste	Candidate Required
Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0955	Prof.Murali Sastry Prof. Santosh Panjikar	Prof.Jayesh Bellare	Proteins and nanoscale surfaces- is there synergy?	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0956	Prof.Lisandra Martin	Prof.Ajay Singh Panwar	Investigating the link between anti-microbial activity and amyloid formation in frog peptides	Candidate Required
Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0958	Prof.Raman Singh Prof. Santosh Panjikar	Prof.Siddhartha Duttagupta Prof.Ashutosh Kumar	Agile sensing and imaging platform for bio-marker discovery	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0960	Dr. Prabhakar Ranganathan	Prof. Mandar Inamdar Prof. Raghunath Chelakkot	Modeling and simulations of collective motion and pattern formation in tissues	Candidate Required
Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research	IMURA0961	Dr. Prabhakar Ranganathan	Prof. Raghunath Chelakkot Prof. Mandar Inamdar	Cluster and conquer: structure and dynamics of self-organized colonization of soft materials by populations of active, self-propelled particles	Candidate Required