Faculty members at IIT Madras carry out research in their areas of interests, often in collaboration with research scholars, doctoral scholars and other researchers. The Institute has ongoing research collaborations with several universities, governments and industries. The research expertise available at the Institute is organized below by department.
Please use this slide deck to get an idea of the research areas studied by our faculty members.
Major Areas of Research
Research Topics by Faculty Member
- Anju Chadha
- Enzyme Mechanisms,Biocatalysis,Biosensors,Biodiesel,Green Chemistry
- Athi Naganathan N
- Experimental and Computational Protein Folding, Spectroscopic Techniques, Statistical Mechanical Models, All-Atom and Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- Baskar R
- Pattern formation in cellular slime molds and Molecular genetics of plant development
- Doble Mukesh
- Biostatistics and Six Sigma,Bioreactors,Drug Design,Biomaterials and Bioflim,Scale up, Chemical process,Molecular modelling and Bioinformatics
- Gopalakrishna A
- G-Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) mediated signal transduction pathways, mechanism of G protein activation, membrane protein biochemistry, protein structure-function, protein folding.
- Guhan Jayaraman
- Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology,Recombinant Protein Production,Bioprocess Monitoring and Control,Process Chromatography for Protein Purification
- Hamsa Priya Mohanasundaram
- Computational Biophysics, Biomolecular Simulations, Protein folding and stability, Peptide self assembly for therapeutics, Protein solubility and aggregation
- Himanshu Sinha
- Yeast, Genetics, Quantitative Genetics, Population Genetics, Gene-Environment interaction, computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, phenomics, transcriptomics
- K Chandraraj
- Biomass Conversion to Fuel-Ethanol, Functional Oligosaccharides From Biomass, Bioremediation
- Karthik Raman
- Design principles of biological networks,Computational systems biology,Synthetic biology,Complex systems analysis,Metabolic engineering,High-performance computing
- Karunagaran D
- Cancer Biology,Role of miRNAs in cancer,TGF beta signaling,Apoptosis,NF-kappa B signaling
- Kesavan V
- Design and synthesis of novel privileged chiral ligands,Conferring drug-like properties on siRNAs,Design and synthesis of novel non-hydroxamate ligands against HDACs,Application of chemistry tools to explore biology,Increasing the stability of siRNAs through chemical modifications
- Madhulika Dixit
- Endothelial Dysfunction, atherosclerosis, endothelial progenitors
- Manoj N
- Protein Structure and Function,Molecular evolution,Enzymology
- Michael Gromiha M
- Protein bioinformatics, structure, function and interactions, databases, web servers,mutation, cancer, machine learning techniques, protein folding and stability
- Murugan R
- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics
- Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt
- Biomaterials, Biomedical Polymers, Controlled Drug Delivery.
- Nitish R Mahapatra
- Cardiovascular Genetics,Gene Regulation,Functional Genomics,Molecular Medicine
- Rama Shanker Verma
- Stem Cell Biology, Tissue Regeneration, Immuntoxin, Folate receptor
- Sanjib Senapati
- Computational Biophysics,Structure Based Drug Discovery,Molecular Dynamics Simulations,Molecular Modeling, Green Chemistry - Ionic liquids and Supercritical CO2, Nanoparticles and Nanoclusters, In-vitro Studies