Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship 2016-2017

1 Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship 2016 -2017 List of selected candidates in alphabetical order: Name of the applicant and present affiliation Proposed Host Institute 1. Dr. Abdul Matteen Rafiqi Research Associate McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada H3A1B1 Email: Vice Chancellor, University of Kashmir Srinagar, Kashmir 2. Dr. Abhijit Das Brand Lab, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK Email: Dean, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur 3. Dr. Afzal Husain Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Immunology & Genomic Medicine Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan Email: Registrar, Jamia Hamdard University New Delhi 4. Dr. Ajit Chande Laboratory of Virus-Cell Interaction Centre for Integrative Biology (CIBIO) University of Trento via Sommarive 938123 Povo (TN), Italy Email: Dean, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Bhopal 5.

2 Dr. Akshay Srivastava Assistant Professor (on contract) National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research-Ahmedabad, Opposite Airforce Station, Palaj-Basan Road, Near Palaj Village, Gandhinagar-382355 Email: Centre for Research in Medical Devices, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Director, National Institute of Pharmacy Education & Research (NIPER), Ahmadabad 6. Dr. Amit Kumar Srivastava Research Associate, Department of Radiology 460 W, 12th Avenue 1036 Biomedical Research Tower, The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio USA, 43210 Email: Vice Chancellor, Ahmadabad University, Ahmadabad, Gujarat 7. Dr. Ananda Mukherjee Director, Research Associate Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Michigan State University, MI, USA Email: Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram 8. Dr. Anirudh Kumar Singh Research Scientist The Research Institute at Nationwide Children s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA Email: Dean Academics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal 9.

3 Dr. Arun Khattri Research Associate Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago 900 E 57th Street, Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery Chicago, IL 60637, USA Email: Dean Research, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi 10. Dr. Bama Charan Mondal Staff Research Associate University of California, Terasaki Life Science Bldg, 610 Charles, E. Yong Drive East, Los Angeles, 5045, CA 90095, USA Email: Director, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad 11. Dr. Bratati Kahali Scientist Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012 Email: University of Michigan Medical School (DCMB, Internal Medicine departments), USA Convener, Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 12. Dr. Davis Jose Research Associate Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR-97403, USA Email : Director, Institute for Intensive Research in Basic Sciences (IIRBS), Kottayam, Kerala 13.

4 Dr. Dhermendra Kumar Tiwari Research Fellow C/O Prof. Virgile Viasnoff, T-lab, Level-9, Mechanobiology Institute, 5A Engineering drive-1, National University of Singapore, 117411, Singapore Registrar, Panjab University, Chandigarh 14. Dr. Dipankar Bhandari Postdoctoral Research Scientist Department of Biochemistry Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Head, Department of Microbiology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani-741235 Spemannstrasse 35, Tuebingen 72076, Germany Email 15. Dr. Ganesh Chauhan Scientist Centre for Brain Research, SID Complex, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Email: Prof. St phanie Debette's lab, INSERM UMR- 1219, Bordeaux, FRANCE Convener, Center for Brain Research Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 16. Dr. Gaurav Das Postdoctoral Fellow Centre for Neural Circuits & Behaviour University of Oxford, Tinsley Building, Mansfield Road,Oxford, United Kingdom, ox1 3sr USA Email: Dean, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Pune 17.

5 Dr. Geetanjali Chawla Assistant Scientist Department of Biology Indiana University, Jordan Hall 343, 1001 E 3rd Street Bloomington IN-47405, USA Email: Director, Amity University, Gurgaon Haryana 18. Dr. Gireesha Thipperudrappa Mohannath Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Biology and Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Indiana University, Myers Hall Room 300 915 East 3rd street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Email: Registrar, University of Agriculture Science, (UAS) Bangalore 19. Dr. Hanumanthu Bala Durga Prasad Rao Post doctoral Research Associate Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Briggs Hall, University of California Davis One Shield s Avenue, Davis CA 95616, USA Director, National Institute for Research Reproductive Health, Mumbai 20. Dr. Huma Sonah Visiting Professor University Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada Email: Director, National Agri Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali 21.

6 Dr. Indulekha Chandrasekharan Pillai Lalitha Assistant Professor Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Viswavidyapeetham, Amrita Campus, Clappana. PO Kollam, Kerala Email: Duke University Medical Center, AERI Bldg, 2351 Erwin Road Head & Dean Biotechnology, Amrita Viswavidyapeetham, Amrita Campus, Clappana. PO Kollam, Kerala DUEC 3802,Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710 USA 22. Dr. Itender Singh Assistant Professor Washington University School of Medicine 660 S Euclid Ave. St. Louis Missouri 63110, USA Email: Director Dr. Center for Biomedical Research (ACBR),University of Delhi New Delhi 23. Dr. Jose Sebastian Post-Doctoral Research Associate Carnegie Institution for Science , Stanford University, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Email: Vice Chancellor, Karunya University, Coimbatore 24. Dr. Krishnendu Chakraborty Senior Post-Doctoral Research Associate University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Medicine 3459 Fifth Avenue, MUH 628 NW, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Email: Director, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology,(IGIB) New Delhi 25.

7 Dr. Mamoni Dash 1063/2, Jagmohan Nagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751030, India Email: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, Ottergemsesteenweg 460, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Director, Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar, Orissa 26. Dr. Manish Jaiswal TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences 21, Brundavan Colony, Narsingi Hyderabad-500075 Email: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA Director, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad 27. Dr. Matheswaran Kandasamy The University of Chicago Edward H. Levi Hall 5801 South Ellis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA Email: Director, Institute of Life Science, Bhubaneswar 28. Dr. Mayur Kumar Kajla Assistant Scientist, Dept. of Entomology, University of Wisconsin Madison 739 Russell Labs, 1630 Linden Dr. Madison, WI 53706, USA Email: Director, National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases (NIECD) Kolkata 29.

8 Dr. Neha Rani Post Doctorate Fellow University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA Email: Dean, Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT), Kanpur 30. Dr. Nirmalya Sen Post Doctoral Fellow National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Building 37, Bethesda-MD 20892 Email: Director, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram 31. Dr. Pankaj Barah Bioinformatics Scientist Computational & Oncology Group/Division of Theoretical& Bioinformatics German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Mathematikon ,Heidelberg, Germany Email: Registrar, Tezpur University, Napaam, Assam 32. Dr. Raja Bhattacharya Postdoctoral Researcher 153 Jodhpur Park, Flat , Kolkata-700068, Email: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Neurobiology 364 Plantation Street, LRB 770U Worcester, MA 01605. USA Vice Chancellor, Amity University, Kolkata 33. Vyas Postdoctoral Fellow Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine E621 10900 Eucline Ave, Cleveland, OH 44116-4970 USA Email: Vice Chancellor, Central University of Punjab, Bhathinda, Punjab 34.

9 Dr. Ramesh Kandimalla, Research Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Neuroscience Garrison Institute on Aging, Texas Tech University 3601 4th Street STOP 9424 Lubbock, Texas 79430-9424, USA Email: Director Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad 35. Dr. Rode Ambadas Bhagawanrao Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University, 7-1-20 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe-6500047 Japan Email: Executive Director, Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad, Haryana 36. Dr. Ruchi Jain Dey 350 Engamore Lane, Apt 201, Norweed, Director, National Jalma Institute for Massachusetts 02060, USA Email : Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases Taj Ganj, Agra-282004 37. Dr. Rupesh Deshmukh Visiting Professor, Laval University 2593 Apt. 3B, Rue de la Bievre, Quebec QC, Canada G1V 2H6 Email: Director, National Agri Food Biotechnology Institute, (NABI) Mohali 38.

10 Dr. Sandeep Kumar Singh Assistant Professor Department of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Kandi Campus, Telangana, 502285 Email: Department of Cell Biology, Duke University medical Center, Durham-NC 27710 USA Director Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad 39. Dr. Sanjay Ghosh Research Associate University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry (Hopkins Building), Downing Site, Cambridge CB21QW, United Kingdom Email: Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore 40. Dr. Sanjay Kumar Sr. Research Associate College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Email: Registrar Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Sciences & Technology, Murthal -131039 Sonepat, Haryana 41. Dr. Senthilkumar Muthusamy Instructor, Institute of Molecular Cardiology University of Louisville 580 south Preston Street, Room , Louisville, Kentucky, USA - 40202 Email: Director, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum 42.