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Grants and Funding Support

Ongoing Completed

The financial support and generosity of the funding agencies national and international is what keeps our research going. For that we are deeply in debt, and hope that the support and confidence in the importance in oiur work continues. For those wishing to privately donate to my lab, do please email us at: CONTACT

Ongoing grants

Project Period Start year Role Other investigators Funding agency Link
The structural and functional annotations of biological networks with specific emphasis on Mycobacterium tuberculosis 5 years 2022 Co-PI Prof. M.S. Madhusudhan (PI), Prof. Saikrishnan K. (Co-PI), IISER Pune Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. DBT-BIC at IISER Pune

Grant projects completed

Project Period Start year Role Other investigators Outcomes Funding agency Link
Open Source Image Analysis Platform of Cellular and Sub-Cellular Microscopy Data: Leveraging Big Data Analysis Tools from Astronomy 3 years 2017 PI Dr. Niruj Mohan Ramanujam, TIFR-NCRA, Pune
  • Software DICOT
  • Microrheology findings in C. elegans [paper1] [paper2]
  • Trainees: Mr. Yash Jawale, BSMS IISER Pune (now PhD from the Netherlands), Mr. Aritra Mondal BSMS IISER Kolkata
 Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
Microtubule based mechanism of colchicine resistance of the producing plant Gloriosa superba and insect feeder Polytela gloriosae 3 years 2018 PI Prof. Uma Shaanker, GKVK Bangalore
  • Purification of plant tubulin from Vigna radiata [paper1] [paper2]
  • PhD and Postdoc trained: Dr. Kunalika Jain, PhD IISER Pune (now Postdoc in Switzerland)
  • PhD student: Mr. Jashaswi Basu
 Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India.
Rapid response and sustained diagnostic capacity for Covid-19 2 years 2021 co-PI Dr. Keith Pardee, Univ of Toronto, Canada (PI),
  • Toehold sensor with high sensitivity and specificity for Zika and Corona virus detection [paper1]
  • Developing methods for cell free extract for sustainable diagnostics and biotherapeutics bio-manufacturing (in prep.)
 IDRC, Canadian Development Fund, Govt. of Canada https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/funding
Rapid, Low-Cost Deployable Detection of nCov2 using Synthetic Biology 1.5 years 2020 PI Co-PI: Dr. Keith Pardee, Univ of Toronto, Canada.
  • Toehold sensor with high sensitivity and specificity for Zika and Corona virus detection [paper1]
  • Paper based diagnostics development.
 Shastri India Canadian Institute (SICI), MHRD Govt of India Shastri Institute
Understanding the mechanobiological basis of the evolutionary diversity in spindle dynamics of nematodes 3 years 2020 PI (collaborative equal) PI: Dr. Marie Delattre, LBMC, ENS Lyon.
  • Quantification of biophysical parameter to distinguish oscillating and non-oscillating spindles in evolution [paper1]
  • Machine learning based approach to identify first-embryonic stages automatically [paper2]
 Centre Franco-Indien pour la Promotion de la Recherche Avancée (CEFIPRA)- Govt of India and France (bilateral) CEFIPRA
Last updated: 3-Oct-2025