Ongoing Projects

S.No. Title Role Funding Agencies Duration Amount (Rs. in lakhs)
1. Controlling Papaya Ring Spot Virus transmission by interfering Protein-Protein Interactions through biogenic nano-porous silica formulations: Systematic Modeling and Molecular Dynamics Investigations. NNP-TNAU, Coimbatore. PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt.of India. 2024-2027 18.21
2. Accelerating identification of RNA-targeted therapeutics to mitigate breast cancer through development of computational methods. PI Indian Council of Medical Research, Govt. of India. 2025-2028 65.89
3. Identification of Potent Drug for Life-Threatening Diseases. NNP-Alagappa University, Karaikudi. PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 2023-2028 24.22
4. Genome informatics networks to understand plant stress management. NNP-NCBS, Bengaluru.) PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 2023-2028 55.68
5. Development of a comprehensive database for disease causing mutations and tool for predicting the binding affinity of protein carbohydrate complexes: influence of binding affinity on disease causing mutations PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 2024-2027 37.48
6. Explore Viral Involvement in the Alzheimer’s Amyloid Beta Peptides Toxicity: Multiscale In-Silico Experimental Approach PI Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. 2024-2026 29.80

Completed Projects

S.No. Title Role Funding Agencies Duration Amount (Rs. in lakhs)
1. A Method to improve Modelling of Protein-protein Complexes using AlphaFold2 and Filtered Coevolutionary Signals. PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 2022-2024 14.98
2. An Integrative Approach for Understanding the Structure, Function and Dynamics of HIV Protease: Applications to Design Novel Inhibitors PI Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. 2021-2024 34.55
3. Efficacy of HSP90 mitochondrial targeting of Withanolide A & Withaferin A in Hepatocellular carcinoma PI Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. 2020-2024 18.2
4. Integrated approach for understanding the binding affinity of protein-nucleic acid complexes: development of database, tools and applications to diseases PI Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. 2020-2023 38.47
5. Structure based drug design and mechanistic studies for COVID19 PI Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. 2020-2023 18.2
6. Adapting the standard SIR model for COVID-19 and effects of climate and lockdowns on infectious spread of SARS-CoV-2 PI Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. 2020-2021 5.5
7. Identification of therapeutic targets for Glioblastoma by Single-Cell RNA-Seq Analysis. PI Department of Health Research, Govt. of India. 2020-2022 42
8. Elucidation of mechanism of Drug resistance associated with Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer through network biology approach. PI Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. 2019-2022 18
9. Predictive modeling of nucleic acid recognition dynamics and structured complex formation by disordered proteins PI Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India. 2019-2021 17
10. Tackling COVID-19: Repurposing of therapeutic antibodies and development of a comprehensive antibody database PI Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Madras 2020-2021 11.42
11. A computational pipeline for understanding disease-causing mutations in Genomes Algorithms for context analysis and Development of Prediction Tools: Development of computational tools for analysis and prediction of disease-causing mutations PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 2017-2020 38
12. Structural and molecular approach of targeting Bcl-2 family anti-apoptotic proteins PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 2017-2020 41
13. Mutational effects on binding affinity of protein-protein complexes: development of a database, tools and applications to diseases PI Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India. 2017-2020 27
14. Prediction of disease-relevant mutations in transmembrane proteins PI Department of Science and Technology, India and Russian Science Foundation, Russia 2016-2019 71
15. Design of Sialic acid analog inhibitors to Hemagglutinins and Neuraminidases of Influenza virus by Molecular Modelling and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Co-PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 2016-2019 32
16. Research grant under Institute Research and Development Award at mid-career level PI Indian Institute of Technology Madras 2016-2019 30
17. Development of three dimensional structural database for biologically and functionally important glycans and glycan-protein complexes through molecular dynamics simulation Co-PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 2016-2019 40
18. Deep learning in life sciences PI Department of Science and Technology, India and Swedish (VR) Corporation 2017-2019 29
19. Targeted inhibition of Bcl-2 Anti-apoptotic protein using in silico and in vitro approaches PI IC&SR, Indian Institute of Technology Madras 2017-2018 9.5
20. Investigating protein aggregation using structural analysis, prediction methods and molecular dynamics study with applications to an eye disease, corneal dystrophy PI Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 2013-2017 37
21. Dissecting important amino acid residues for folding and binding of proteins PI Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. 2013-2016 24
22. Development of tools for functional annotation of membrane proteins PI Indian Institute of Technology Madras 2011-2014 5
23. Development of database for functional residues in membrane proteins PI Computational Biology Research Center, Japan 2008-2009 4
24. Research on recognition mechanism for biomolecular complexes using grid computing Co-PI Japan Science and Technology, Japan and Department of Science and Technology, India 2008-2011 75
25. Development of database and algorithms for understanding and predicting functional residues in membrane proteins PI Computational Biology Research Center, Japan 2007-2008 7
26. Annotation of outer membrane proteins in genomic sequences and development of database for retrieving OMPs through query based system PI Computational Biology Research Center, Japan 2005-2006 16
27. Integration of bioinformatics tools and database for annotating outer membrane proteins in genomic sequences PI Okawa Science Foundation, Japan 2005-2006 5
28. Development of online tools for identifying outer membrane proteins in genomic sequences PI Computational Biology Research Center, Japan 2005-2006 14
29. Development of integrated biomolecular databases and analyzing systems Co-PI Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Technology, Japan 2004-2005 29
30. Inter-residue interactions in protein structures Co-PI The Daiwa Anglo-Japan Foundation, UK 2004-2005 8