S. No. Broad Area Program /Project Title Collaborators/ PI
1 Infectious Diseases and Immunology Polyphosphate signalling in microbial pathogenesis, inflammation, and immunity Dr. Chittur V. Srikanth, RCB
Dr. Karthika Rajeeve, BRIC-RGCB
2 Infectious Diseases and Immunology Integrative multi-omics approaches for unveiling the host-pathogen interplay in invasive Candida infections Dr. Ajay Mahato, BRIC-CDFD
3 Infectious Diseases and Immunology Host Pathogen Interaction w.r.t. Mycobacterium Dr. Bhaswati Pandit, BRIC-NIBMG
Dr. Karthika Rajeeve, BRIC-RGCB
Dr. Tanmay Majumdar, BRIC-NII
Dr. Girish K Radhakrishnan, BRIC-NIAB
Dr. Ramandeep Singh, BRIC-THSTI
4 Climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture Development of direct-seeded rice for climate-smart agriculture Dr Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek, ICGEB
Dr. Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti, BRIC-NIPGR
Dr. Tanushri Kaul, ICGEB
Dr. Rajeev Nayan Bahuguna, BRIC-NABI
5 Carbon Capture Advanced Biomaterials for Carbon Capture Dr. Ambadas Rode, RCB
6 Crop Improvement (yield, fortification, disease resistance) Targeting plant translational machinery for improved disease resistance in crops Dr Saikat Bhatachrjee, RCB
Dr Ramu S Vemanna, RCB
7 Infectious Diseases and Immunology Investigating Immunological Mechanism of the Crosstalk between Co- morbidities and Arboviral Infection: A systems level longitudinal cohort study (“IMMUNO-TRACK”) Dr. Ranjan Nanda, ICGEB
8 Crop Improvement (yield, fortification, disease resistance) Bioengineering the NUTRICE Dr Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek, ICGEB
Dr. Moumita Srivastava, BRIC-RGCB
9 Neurological and Neurodegenerative Diseases Understanding the role of RNAs, RNA-binding proteins and nucleo-cytoplasmic transport in regulation of neurodegenerative disease Dr. Amitabha Majumdar, BRIC-NCCS
10 Neurological and Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Diseases & Therapeutic Intervention Dr. Bhavani Shankar Sahu, BRIC- NBRC
Dr. Dhruba Mayanganblam BRIC-NBRC
11 Cancer Biology Understanding molecular mechanisms triggering anemia in cancer patients following chemotherapy Dr. Pankaj Sharma, BRIC-NCCS
12 Cancer Biology Cancer Genomics, Chemoresistance and Therapy Dr. Avinash Bajaj, RCB
Dr. Arnab Mukhopadhyay, BRIC-NII
13 Health innovations/AI and computational data science Development of multi-scale whole brain connectome platforms for disease mapping and therapeutics Dr. Khushbu Agarwal, BRIC-NBRC
14 Biofuels Sustainable production of Jet-fuel from food and agricultural waste using engineered organisms Dr. Shashi Kumar, ICGEB
Dr. Shireesh Srivastava (coordinator), ICGEB
Dr. Meena Krishania, BRIC-NABI
Dr. Syed Shams Yazdani, ICGEB
15 Crop Improvement (yield, fortification, disease resistance) Exploring miRNAs for Biofortiffication and Stress Resilience in Banana Dr. Siddharth Tiwari, BRIC-NABI
Dr. Panneerselvam Krishna Murthy, BRIC-NABI
Dr. Ashutosh Pandey, BRIC-NIPGR
16 Cancer Biology Molecular investigations of cancer-mediated cachexia to mitigate effects and improve patients’ life Dr. Sanjeev Das, BRIC-NII
Dr. Vidisha Tripathi, BRIC-NCCS
17 Immunobiology / cellular processes / therapeutic targets Understanding protein trafficking pathways: Integrative cellular and structural biology approaches Dr. Radha Chauhan, NCCS
Dr. Santosh Kumar Balot, NCCS
18 Infectious Diseases and Immunology Cross-regulation of flagellar motility, biofilm and anti-microbial resistance in bacterial pathogens: Mechanism and Inhibition Prof. Deepti Jain, RCB
Dr. Subhadeep Chatterjee, BRIC-CDFD
Dr. Tushar Beuria, BRIC-ILS
19 Neurological and Neurodegenerative Diseases Uncovering the role of placental factors in cognitive deficits associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) Dr Sourav Banerjee, BRIC-NBRC
Dr Dasaradhi Palakodeti, BRIC-inStem
Dr Khushbu Agarwal, BRIC-NBRC
20 Artificial Intelligence And Computational Data Novel eQTL functionalization Dr Nidhan K Biswas, BRIC-NIBMG
Dr Priyadarshi Basu, BRIC-NIBMG
21 Smart proteins and functional feed Alternate Nutrition Dr. Debasree Dutta, BRIC-RGCB
22 Artificial Intelligence And Computational Data Artificial Intelligence guided (AI) design of novel proteins for improving health and nutrition Dr Shrikant Mantri, BRIC-NABI
Dr Narendra Kumar, BRIC-NII
23 Carbon Capture SynCarbon: AI guided search of novel Synthetic scaffolds for atmospheric Carbon Capture Dr. Narendra Kumar, BRIC-NII
24 Chronic and Metabolic Diseases Cardio Genomics, stem cells/organoids and precision medicine Dr. Bhaswati Pandit, BRIC-NIBMG
25 Immunobiology/ Cellular Processes and Therapeutic Targets Identifying novel modulators for therapeutic targeting of autophagy in human pathophysiology Dr. Shailendra Asthana, BRIC-THSTI
Dr. Manjula Kalia, RCB
26 Chronic and Metabolic Diseases Cardiovascular Disease Therapeutics: Preclinical Drug Development Targeting oxLDL Receptor LOX-1 Dr. Arockiasamy Arulandu, ICGEB
Dr. Ranjan Nanda, ICGEB
27 Climate resilient and sustainable agriculture Developing climate smart cereal crops (rice, sorghum) by modulating phytohormone and peptide signaling Dr. Pawan Kumar Jewaria, BRIC-NIPGR
Dr. Rita Sharma, BRIC-NABI
28 Climate resilient and sustainable agriculture Augmenting Symbiosis in Rice for Sustainable Agriculture Dr. Senjuti Sinharoy, BRIC-NIPGR
Dr. Amar Pal Singh, BRIC-NIPGR
Dr. Senthil-K Muthappa, BRIC-NIPGR
Dr. Vineet Gaur, BRIC-NIPGR
Dr. Jitendra Thakur, ICGEB
29 Infectious Diseases and Immunology Role of non-coding RNAs in regulating immune response in Indian chicken breeds Dr. Ajay Kumar Mahato, BRIC-CDFD
Dr Shailesh Kumar, BRIC-NIPGR
Dr Shailesh Sharma, BRIC-NIAB
30 Smart proteins and functional feed Oleaginous Yeast for functional feed Dr. Naseem Gaur, ICGEB
Dr. Yash Pal, BRIC-NIAB
Dr. Sanjay Singh, BRIC-NIAB
31 Health Innovations Role of PP1-α mediated regulation of Notch signalling in neurogenesis and regeneration across evolution Dr. Rohit Joshi, BRIC-CDFD, Hyderabad
Prof. Dasaradhi Palakodeti, BRIC-inStem
32 Health Innovations Mapping metabolic networks under microgravity and space flight Dr. Arvind Ramanathan, BRIC-inStem
Dr. Shashi Kumar, ICGEB
Dr Nitin Kumar Singhal, BRIC-NABI
33 Health Innovations Pathogen Deubiquitinases (DUBs) in Intracellular Infection: Orchestrators of Immune Evasion, Immunometabolism, Mitochondrial Homeostasis, and Therapeutic Targeting Dr. Karthika Rajeeve, BRIC-RGCB
Dr. Tanmay Majumdar, BRIC- NII
Dr. Girish K Radhakrishnan, BRIC- NIAB
34 Sustainable Biomanufacturing and Biofuels Synthetic biology platforms for integrated carbon capture and hydrogen generation via metabolic coupling in Saccharomyces-Cyanobacteria (SacCy) consortia Dr. Sunil Laxman, BRIC- inStem
Dr. Shireesh Srivastava, ICGEB
35 Biotechnology for Jaiv Shakti Nirman (Animal, Plant, Bioresource) Evaluation of biosynthetic pathways for secondary metabolites in medicinal plants: Genomics and Transcriptomics approach Dr Pardeep Kumar Bhardwaj, BRIC-IBSD
Dr. Seema Pradhan, BRIC-ILS
Dr. Ajay Kumar Mahato, BRIC-CDFD
36 Health Innovations Biomanufacturing of Live Biotherapeutics Dr. Bhabatosh Das, BRIC-THSTI
Dr. Punit Prasad, BRIC-ILS
Dr. Tushar Maiti, RCB
37 Health Innovations Using genomics and (patient-derived) iPSCs towards mechanistic understanding and disease modelling for neurodevelopmental disorders Dr. Shweta Tyagi, BRIC-CDFD
Dr. Ashwin Dalal, BRIC-CDFD
Dr. Ramesh Yelagandula, BRIC-CDFD
Dr. Srinivasarao Repudi, BRIC-inStem
38 Health Innovations Pre-eclampsia: Insights into risk prediction and placental biology through proteomics and epigenomics Dr. Pallavi Kshetrapal, BRIC-THSTI
Dr. Tushar Maiti, RCB
Dr. Debasree Dutta, BRIC-RGCB