MBBS / MPH Internship Program
Supervisors for MBBS Internship
Prof. Namrata Gundiah
Centre/Department: Mechanical Engineering
Email: namrata@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Mechanobiology
Lab website: https://dm.iisc.ac.in/utsaah/
Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty
Centre/Department: Microbiology and Cell Biology
Email: dipa@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Host-pathogen interaction, Immunology
Lab website: https://mcb.iisc.ac.in/dclab/
Dr. Prosenjit Das
Centre/Department: Materials Engineering
Email: prosenjitdas@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Materials processing & Manufacturing
Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/ammpl/home
Prof. Somnath Dutta
Centre/Department: Molecular Biophysics Unit
Email: somnath@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Structural Biology, host pathogen interaction, Infectious disease biology (Mycobacterium, Staphylococcus aureus), Structure-based drug design.
Lab website: https://somnath92.wixsite.com/website
Prof. Sandeep Eswarappa
Centre/Department: Biochemistry
Email: sandeep@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Primary interest of our laboratory is to understand the regulation of mammalian translation during its initiation and termination
Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/dr-sandeep-m-eswarappa/people/current-members
Dr. Thomas Gregor Issac
Centre/Department: Centre for Brain Research
Email: thomasgregor@cbr-iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Clinical Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Clinical Phenomeniology of dementias, Cognitive neurosciences, Neuropsychiatry.
Lab website: https://cbr-iisc.ac.in/thomas-gregor-issac/
Prof. Sai Siva Gorthi
Centre/Department: Instrumentation and Applied Physics
Email: saisiva@iissc.ac.in
Area of Research: One Health
Lab website: http://iap.iisc.ac.in/~saisiva.gorthi/index.html
Prof. Sriram Ganapathy
Centre/Department: Electrical, Electronics and Computer Sciences
Email: sriramg@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Conversational machine learning based agents for understanding, monitoring and prognosis of mental health.
Lab website: http://leap.ee.iisc.ac.in/
Prof. Pradipta Biswas
Centre/Department: Design and Manufacturing
Email: pradipta@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Gaze Fixation to Visual Language / Action Models (VLM/VLA).
Lab website: https://cambum.net/I3D.htm
Dr. William R. Surin
Centre/Department: Microbiology and Cell Biology
Email: wrsurin@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Application of Flow Cytometry in Biological Studies
Lab website: https://mcb.iisc.ac.in/research-single/william-r-surin
Dr. Albert Stezin Sunny
Centre/Department: Clinical Neuroscience
Email: albertstezin@cbr-iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Cognitive-Motor Control and Movement Neuroscience applied to Ageing and Neurodegeneration, Clinical Data Curation and Analysis
Lab website: https://cbr-iisc.ac.in/dr-albert-stezin-sunny/
Dr. Deepashri Agrawal
Centre/Department: Centre for Brain Research
Email: deepashria@cbr-iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Speech, Language and Hearing Neuroscience related to neurodegenerative disorders of aging (clinical data curation and analysis).
Lab website: https://cbr-iisc.ac.in/clinical-scientific-staff/
Prof. Utpal Tatu
Centre/Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: tatu@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Neglected infectious diseases, zoonoses, one health
Lab website: https://biochem.iisc.ac.in/utpal/
Prof. Praveen C Ramamurthy
Centre/Department: Materials Engineering
Email: praveen@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Biomimetic sensors
Lab website: https://materials.iisc.ac.in/~praveen/
Prof. Bratati Kahali
Centre/Department: Centre for Brain Research
Email: bratati@cbr-iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Human genetics, non-communicable diseases, Alzheimer’s dementia.
Lab website: https://cbr-iisc.ac.in/bratati-kahali/
Dr. Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan
Centre/Department: Centre for Brain Research
Email:chinna@cbr-iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Neurodegeneration, neurophysiology, sleep, gamma stimulation.
Lab website: https://cbr-iisc.ac.in/chinnakkaruppan_adaikkan/
Prof. Debnath Pal
Centre/Department: Department of Computational and Data Sciences.
Email: dpal@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Downstaging of Oral Cancer through assistive technologies.
Lab website: cds.iisc.ac.in/faculty/dpal
Dr. Vini Gautam
Centre/Department: Centre for Nanao Science and Engineering
Email: vini@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Tissue engineering, neuroscience, neural interfaces
Lab website: https://www.cense.iisc.ac.in/neuroelectronics/
Prof. Subba Rao Gangi Setty
Centre/Department: Microbiology and Cell Biology
Email: subba@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Skin pigmentation and homeostasis
Lab website: https://mcb.iisc.ac.in/research-single/subba-rao-gangi-setty
Dr. Kesavardana Sannula
Centre/Department: Department of Biochemistry
Email: skesav@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Zoonotic viruses, Bat immunology, tissue damage & inflammation
Lab website: https://kesavlab.wordpress.com/
Prof. Kumaravel Somasundaram
Centre/Department: Microbiology and Cell Biology
Email: skumar1@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Genetics of brain tumors
Lab website: https://mcb.iisc.ac.in/research-single/kumaravel-somasundaram
Prof. Upendra Nongthomba
Centre/Department: Developmental Biology and Genetics
Email: upendra@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Myopathies, Neurological disorders, Neurodegeneration, Developmental genetics.
Lab website: https//dbgl.wordpress.com
Prof. Monto Mani
Centre/Department: Centre for Sustainable Technologies
Email: monto@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Thermal comfort, climatic resilience in buildings, indoor air quality and wellness.
Lab website: https://cst.iisc.ac.in/sudesi/
Dr. Latha Diwakar
Centre/Department: Centre for Brain Research
Email: latha@cbr-iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Vascular and Metabolic Comorbidities in India, Dementia Risk Assessment, Blood Biochemistry and Biomarker Analysis.
Lab website: https://cbr-iisc.ac.in/people/latha-diwakar/
Dr. Reddy P. Kommaddi
Centre/Department: Centre for Brain Research
Email: reddy@cbr-iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Curation and analysis of biochemical data from longitudinal cohort studies to generate insights into risk determinants, protective factors, and biological mechanisms related to dementia and neurodegenerative disease progression.
Lab website: https://cbr-iisc.ac.in/reddy-p-kommaddi/