PhD Admissions BrochureJULY 2020

Department of Biotechnology

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

The department of Biotechnology has faculty members

with cutting-edge research expertise in areas

encompassing both applied and basic research: NMR

spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, Computational

biology, Neurodegenerative diseases, Ion channel

physiology, Protein misfolding diseases, Infectious

diseases, HIV biology, Cancer biology, DNA repair,

Molecular mechanisms of diseases using zebrafish

animal model, High resolution imaging, Molecular &

cellular neurosciences, RNA molecular biology, Genomics

and Epitranscriptomics, Drug design and Enzyme

Engineering. Research activities in the department are

funded by national agencies such as DBT, DST, ICMR,

CSIR, etc.

Two post graduate degree programs are offered

currently: MTech in Medical Biotechnology & PhD in

Biotechnology.

The mission of the PhD program at department is to

provide research training that begets leaders in

academia, biotechnology and beyond; leaders that can

shape the science of future.

Department of BiotechnologyPhD Admissions – July 2020

Applications are invited from suitably qualified and motivatedcandidates for admission to PhD program at Department ofBiotechnology, IITH in the following research area:

Department of BiotechnologyPhD Admissions – July 2020

Research Area Faculty

Membrane protein dynamics in breast cancer, drug discovery using animal models

Dr. AnamikaBhargava

DNA repair Dr Anindya Roy

Cancer Genomics and biomarker discovery, RNA Biology, Protein Engineering, Epitranscriptomics, Computational biology and data mining

Dr Ashish Misra(***)

Molecular mechanism of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) disease. Protein misfolding diseases. Yeast S. cerevisiae genetics. Neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease. Renal amyloidosis.

Dr. Basant K Patel

DNA-Protein and protein-protein interaction in innate

immune response to cancer and viral infection.Dr N K Raghavendra

Epigenetics, Enzyme engineering, Structure based drug design, Structural Biology, X-ray crystallography, Biophysics & Biochemistry, Computational biology,Characterization of cancer drug targets

Dr RajakumaraEerappa(###)

Microbial genomics, Antimicrobial resistance, Antigen/protein interaction, Protein...protein interaction, Rational antibioticdesign, Biomolecular NMR, Molecular dynamics simulation

Dr T. Rathinavelan

Minimum Eligibility Criteria

• M.Tech or any equivalent degree in any allied area of Life Sciences.

• MSc degree in any allied area of Life Sciences and possessing a GATEscore or valid National level JRF qualification.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering /Technology and possessing a validGATE score.

• Candidates with valid CSIR-JRF / UGC-JRF/ DBT-JRF award or anyother equivalent national level qualification for research fellowship(eg. DST-INSPIRE fellowship) are encouraged to apply.

• Candidates should also possess:

• General category: at least 63% marks in the highest qualifyingdegree

• OBC category: at least 62% marks in the highest qualifyingdegree

• SC/ST category: at least 60% marks in the highest qualifyingdegree

• For those who have not yet completed their qualifying examination,the marks obtained up to 3rd semester for MSc/Mtech and 7th

semester for B. Tech Students will be considered.(***): Candidates with experience/interest in computational biologyand data mining are encouraged to apply.(###): Candidates with experience/interest in Machine or Deeplearning and molecular modeling and prediction are encouraged toapply.Notes:1) Ensure that the minimum eligibility criteria is met before applying.The department reserves the right to set any cut off criteria forshortlisting the candidates.

Selection procedure

Note:1. The department has the right not to selectany candidate if appropriate candidates are not found.2. Hostel facility may not be available immediately to the admitted candidates, but, may eventually be available.

• Candidates will be shortlisted according to the criteria set by a shortlisting committee.

• Only shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview to be held at IITH.

• Selection to the PhD program will be based on the performance in the interview.

• Request to change the interview date/time will not be entertained.

Interested candidates can apply online through IIT Hyderabad's website: http://www.iith.ac.in

For any further information, please contact by email: phd_biotech@iith.ac.in