DNA Repair & Cancer Research Laboratory
Alumni
Graduate (PhD) students
Dr. Mridula Nambiar
Stay in SCR Lab: September 2006 – 2012
Current designation and affiliation:
Assistant professor, Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
Dr. Abani Kanta Naik
Stay in SCR Lab: Aug 2006 – September 2012
Current designation and affiliation:
Research Associate Senior,
Dr. Michael Krangel’s Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Dr. Sheetal Sharma
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2007 – July 2012
Current designation and affiliation:
Associate professor, Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, PGIMER, Chandigarh India
Dr. Mrinal Srivastava
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2008 – April 2013
Current designation and affiliation:
Assistant professor, Biology,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),
Hyderabad, India
Dr. Satish Kumar Tadi
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2008 – June 2013
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Current designation and affiliation:
Scientist, Cell Engineering
Sangamo Therapeutics France
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Dr. Divyaanka Iyer
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2007 – November 2013
Current designation and affiliation:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Dr. Nishana M.
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2009 – August 2014
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Current designation and affiliation:
Assistant professor, Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapuram, India
Dr. Rupa Kumari
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2010 – August 2015
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Current designation and affiliation:
Postdoctoral fellow,
Dr. Jia Feng's Laboratory
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States
Dr. Robin Sebastian
Stay in SCR Lab: June 2010 – January 2016
Current designation and affiliation:
Postdoctoral fellow,
Dr. Mirit Aladjem's Laboratory,Center for cancer research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
Dr. Mahesh Hegde
Stay in SCR Lab: September 2013 – December 2015
Current designation and affiliation:
Research Associate, University of Massachusetts Medical School, MA., USA
Dr. Kohal Das
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2011 – April 2016
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Current designation and affiliation:
Postdoctoral fellow,
Prof. Catherine Freudenreich’s Laboratory, Tufts University, Boston, USA
Dr. Monica Pandey
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2011 – August 2017
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Current designation and affiliation:
Postdoctoral fellow,
Dr. Daniel Higginson Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Dr. Deepthi R.
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2011 – August 2017
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Current designation and affiliation:
Scientist, Biocon, Bangalore, India
Dr. Supriya V. Vartak
Stay in SCR Lab: March 2011 – December 2018
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Current designation and affiliation:
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Rafael Casellas Laboratory, NIAMS,
National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Dr. Vidya Gopalakrishnan
Stay in SCR Lab: July 2014 – March 2019
Current designation and affiliation:
Head of the department, Department of Zoology, St. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakkuda, Kerala, India
Dr. Saniya Milind Javadekar
Stay in SCR Lab: May 2012 – May 2019
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Current designation and affiliation:
Associate Scientist,
Novavax,
Maryland, USA
Dr. Sumedha Dahal
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2014 – August 2021
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Current designation and affiliation:
Postdoctoral fellow,
Dr. Dirk Remus Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Dr. Namrata Nilavar
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2014 – July 2021
Current designation and affiliation:
Postdoctoral fellow,
Dr. Ralph Scully laboratory, Harvard Medical School, USA
Dr. Amita M. Paranjape
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2014– May 2022
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Current designation and affiliation:
Biologist- Medical Device Validation Specialist,
Wissenkraft Labs Pvt., Pune, India
Dr. Ujjayinee Ray
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2015 – June 2022
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Current designation and affiliation:
Assistant Professor,
Techno India university, Kolkata
Dr. Dipayan Ghosh
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2015 – September 2022
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Current designation and affiliation:
Post-doctoral scientist,
C-CAMP, Bangalore, India
Dr. Anju Sharma
Stay in SCR Lab: August 2016 – April 2023
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Current designation and affiliation:
Postdoctoral fellow,
Dr. John Petrini Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Alumni
Postdoctoral fellows
Dr. Shahabddin MS
Stay in SCR Lab: Jan 2007 – May 2008
Current designation and affiliation:
Field application scientist,
Thermo fisher, India
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Dr. Kishore Kumar Chiruvella
Stay in SCR Lab: May 2007 – Feb 2010
Current designation and affiliation:
Post-Doctoral Associate’ with Dr. Kevin Hiom, Division of Cancer Research, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Dr. Kavitha CV
Stay in SCR Lab: May 2007 – September 2009
Current designation and affiliation:
Associate professor of Chemistry
Coordinator, Department of Chemistry- PG Government College for Women (Autonomous) Mandya, Karnataka, India
Dr. Bibha Choudhary
Stay in SCR Lab: September 2009 – March 2011
Current designation and affiliation:
Professor,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore, India
Dr. S.R. Ranganath
Stay in SCR Lab: December 2009 – July 2012
Current designation and affiliation:
Research Associate Fellow at North Carolina Central University, USA
Dr. Elizabeth Thomas
Stay in SCR Lab: September 2010 – 2016
Current designation and affiliation:
Post doctoral fellow at Department of Pharmacology,
University of Maryland
Dr. Santhini Elango
Stay in SCR Lab: March 2011 – February 2012
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Current designation and affiliation:
Senior Scientific Officer - Gr – A Technical Manager - Biological Laboratory, Centre of Excellence for Medical Textiles, The South India Textile Research Association, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Dr. Shikha Srivastava
Stay in SCR Lab: November 2012 – 2016
Current designation and affiliation:
Assistant Professor, School of Biotechnology, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India
Dr. Divya Lakshmanan
Stay in SCR Lab: March 2014 – June 2015
Current designation and affiliation:
Scientist at Yenepoya Research Centre, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
Dr. Ananda Hanumappa
Stay in SCR Lab: September 2016 – February 2017
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Current designation and affiliation:
Research Scientist at Adichunchanagiri Institute for Molecular Medicine, Adichunachanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences,
Adichunchanagiri University,
Mandya, Karnataka, India
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Raul
Stay in SCR Lab: February 2017 – May 2018
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Current designation and affiliation:
Assistant Professor,
P.G. Department of Biotechnology,
Rama Devi Women’s University,
Bhubaneswar, India
Dr. Arigesavan Kaninathan
Stay in SCR Lab: July 2016 – July 2018
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Current designation and affiliation:
Senior Research Officer, R and D Department,
Natural Remedies Pvt. Ltd,
Bangalore, India
Dr. Rathees S.T.
Stay in SCR Lab: October 2010 – March 2011
Dr. Kushi Anand
Stay in SCR Lab: January 2013 – April 2014
Shabeen Taj
Stay in SCR lab
2007-2013
Current designation- Assistant Manager at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
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Alumni
Junior Reseach Fellows (JRF) and Project Assistants
1.Ms. Ruchika Sharma, August 2006-March 2007.
2.Ms. Sritha K. Sankaran, March 2007-January 2008.
3.Ms. Vijayalakshmi Kari, August 2007-December 2009.
4.Ms. Shwetha Prasad, September 2007-December 2007.
5.Mr. Ganesh S. Murthy, November 2007-October 2009.
6.Ms. Arif Nisha, August 2008-November 2008.
7.Mr. Balaji T. M. September 2008-March 210.
8.Ms. Sunita Ramakrishna, January 2009-April 2009.
9.Ms. Arjun Kumar Singh, April 2009- November 2009.
10.Ms. Anija T. Philip, August 2009-January 2010.
11.Ms. Diana Nancy R, January 2010-July 2010.
12.Mr. Jayaram C., January 2010-March 31, 2010.
13.Mr. Mahesh Hegde, May 2010-August 2013.
14.Ms. Rakhee Yadav, May 2010-March 2011.
15.Mr. Pavan BN, August 2010-January 2011.
16.Ms. Khyati D. Bhatelia, August 2010-April 2011.
17.Mr. Vijeth Kumar Kattapadi, June 2011- March 2012.
18.Ms. Souvari Bhattacharya, September 2011- September 2013.
19.Ms. Vidya Gopalakrishnan, October 2011- July 2014.
20.Ms. Aiman Kayenaat, April 2013-October 2013.
21.Mr. Ravi Babu Kumar, August 2013- October 2015.
22.Ms. Shaikha Shanbagh, August 2013-May 2014.