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Funding, honours, and the wider footprint.
The competitive grants, national fellowships, talks, and partnerships behind the lab’s work.
Major research grants
| Period · role | Funder | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2016–2021 · PI | DBT–Wellcome Trust India Alliance (Intermediate Fellow) | Chromosome-cohesion-mediated regulation of homologous recombination in E. coli. |
| 2018–2021 · PI | SERB — Early Career Research | Role of cohesion in nucleoid dynamics under antibiotic stress. |
| 2020–2023 · Co-PI | SERB — CRG | Host-protein sequestration by plasmids under replication–transcription conflicts in E. coli. |
| 2022 · PI | ICMR | Urine-metabolomics prognostic biomarkers in COVID-19 patients. |
Plus the ICMR-funded phage-therapy programme (Tx).
Three competitive national fellowships
DBT–Wellcome India Alliance
Intermediate Fellowship — one of India’s most competitive biomedical fellowships.
Ramanujan Fellowship
Awarded to accomplished scientists returning to India for independent research.
Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship
DBT re-entry fellowship supporting an independent research group.
Convening and presenting
Organised an international symposium on phage therapy — bringing together researchers on bacteriophage-based approaches to drug-resistant infection.
Invited talks and presentations at national and international meetings on antimicrobial resistance, nanodiagnostics, and genome stability.
A fuller list of talks will be added.
Who the lab works with
A Delhi tertiary-care hospital partner
Supplies clinical isolates of multidrug-resistant pathogens for the phage-therapy programme.
MCARS, Jamia Millia Islamia
The lab’s home — the Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Research and Studies.
Cross-institutional collaborations
Co-authored work spanning immunology, chemistry, and clinical research groups in India and abroad.