MBBS Internship Programme
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Only selected candidates will be receiving emails from the office for further joining processes
The Indian Institute of Science is delighted to host a research internship program for MBBS students to facilitate research exposure and help develop future physician scientists in the country.
Thematic areas of Research:
Cancer Biology, Bioengineering, Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences, Endocrinology, Biomedical devices, and many others.
Who can apply?
Students who are in their third year of MBBS degree program at an MCI/ NMC recognized medical school and have completed/ or will complete their Phase-3 (Part 1) before January 2023 are eligible to apply. Transcripts will be checked before the start of the internship.
About 24 students will be selected based on their academic performance and the information provided within the application.
Duration:
The internship is for 4 weeks (minimum) to 8 weeks(maximum).
Selected students may avail of this opportunity only once between May 2022 – April 2023 in consultation with faculty at IISc in whose laboratory the students will work.
Stipend:
Selected candidates will be provided a stipend of INR 25000/month (+ travel allowance) for the duration of the internship.
Candidates will not be provided hostel accommodation on campus and are required to make their own arrangements.
A certificate of participation will be awarded after the successful completion of the program.
How to apply?
Students can complete the Google form to apply for the internship.
To identify projects from the participating faculty in the program, please visit the “List of Projects”.
Application Process:
- Application Deadline: 24th April 2022 (Applications are closed currently).
- Requirements to apply:
- Academic record -CGPA/overall percentage and Rank in Class (Please enter last semester grade/ Percentage if phase 3 part 1 score are not announced.)
- Laboratory preference: Please select 5 faculty preferences based on your research interests. To identify projects from the participating faculty in the program, please visit the “List of Projects”.
- Statement of Intent: The Statement of Intent will be used to evaluate the applicant for admission into the internship program. You may use this section to provide insights into your academic record, career goals, and describe how the internship will benefit your aspirations.
- Support letter: The Registrar/Dean/Principal of your institution should confirm, on official letterhead, that “The applicant is in their 3rd year of study in the MBBS program and has completed/ will have completed Phase 3 (Part 1) by (Date)”. All uploaded documents should be less than 10MB.
- Incomplete applications will not be considered for the program.
- Selected candidates for the internship program will be informed by 15th May.
Disclaimer: Submitted applications will be evaluated to identify qualified applicants for the laboratories of choice indicated in the form during the time of application.
Contact Information:
For any queries, students may write to iisc.opportunities@gmail.com

Department: Computational and Data Sciences
Email ID: Yalavarthy@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: http://cds.iisc.ac.in/faculty/yalavarthy/MIG/
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Brief Description of Project Goals and Objectives:
Tracking of median nerve in ultrasound images which will allow diagnosis and prognosis of carpel tunnel syndrome (CTS) in an expedited manner. This neuromuscular Ultrasound Imaging data collection from Wrist to Proximal and Distal part of the arm is typically collected as a one-minute video sequence. Manual segmentation of these video sequence is time consuming. Medical Imaging Group (MIG) in collaboration with Aster-CMI Hospital has been developing an AI tool to enable faster diagnosis (reducing characterization time from one hour to three minutes) and aids the clinicians like Anesthesiologist, Radiologist, Neurologist, Rheumatologists and various clinicians involved in musculoskeletal disorders in procedures such as ultrasound guided injections. This tool current accuracy is around 85% equivalent to expert neurosonologist. The project aims at improving the developed AI tool with more rigorous validation.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Segmentation, Ultrasound Imaging, Neurology, Validation.
References:
Ming-Huwi Horng, Cheng-Wei Yang, Yung-Nien Sun, Tai-Hua Yang, “”Deep Nerve: A New Convolutional Neural Network for the Localization and Segmentation of the Median Nerve in Ultrasound Image Sequences”.
Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, Volume 46, Issue 9, 2020, Pages 2439-2452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2020.03.017.
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Department: Microbiology and Cell Biology
Email ID: wrsurin@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://mcbl.iisc.ac.in/william-r-surin/
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Keywords: Cardiovascular, Thrombosis, Platelets, Anti-platelets
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Department: Biochemistry
Email ID: sandeep@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://sites.google.com/view/dr-sandeep-m-eswarappa/home?authuser=0
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Keywords: Genetic disease, stop codon, nonsense mutation, CRISPR, antisense oligonucleotides
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Department: Centre For Sustainable Technologies
Email ID: narayana@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://sites.google.com/site/narayanarao/
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Keywords:Plasma activated water, Reactive oxygen species, OH radical, Burn Wounds, Cancer Treatment
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Department: Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing & Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems
Email ID: pradipta@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://cambum.net/I3D.htm
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Keywords: Cognitive Load, Aerospace, EEG, Pupil Dilation, Fixation Rate
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Department: Electrical Communication Engineering
Email ID: hari@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://ece.iisc.ac.in/~hari/wordpress/
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Keywords: ICU, Deep Learning, Signal Processing, Echocardiography
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Department: Molecular Development Reproduction and Genetics
Email ID: grnikhil@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://nikhilgandasi.com
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Keywords:Pancreatic-islets, human-tissue, diabetes, hormone-secretion
References:
V Petrenko, NR Gandasi, D Sage, A Tengholm, S Barg, C Dibner. In pancreatic islets from type 2 diabetes patients the dampened circadian oscillators lead to reduced insulin and glucagon exocytosis (2020) Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 117 (5):2484-2495.
NR Gandasi, P Yin, M Omar-Hmeadi, EO Laakso, P Vikman, S Barg. Glucose dependent granule docking limits insulin secretion and is decreased in human type-2 diabetes (2018) Cell Metabolism 27(2): 470-4785.
NR Gandasi, P Yin, M Riz, G Cortese, M Chibalina, P Rorsman, A Sherman, MG Pedersen and S Barg. Ca2+ channel clustering with insulincontaining granules is disturbed in type 2 diabetes (2017) Journal of Clinical Investigation 127(6):2353-2364
NR Gandasi and S Barg. Contact-induced clustering of syntaxin and munc18 docks secretory granules at the exocytosis site (2014) Nature Communications 5:3914
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Department: Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing
Email ID: marora@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://cpdm.iisc.ac.in/utsaah/
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Keywords:Ultrasound, PCPNDT, Freehand 3d
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Department: Mechanical Engineering
Email ID: namrata@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://mecheng.iisc.ac.in/namrata/
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Keywords: Mechanobiology, cell adhesions, cancer metastasis
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Department: Materials Engineering
Email ID: praveen@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://materials.iisc.ac.in/~praveen/
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Keywords:Point-of-care-device, portable solid-state sensor
References:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254058421010701
https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/elan.201800052
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Department: Molecular Development Reproduction and Genetics
Email ID: anu@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://mrdg.iisc.ac.in/anu-rangarajan/
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Keywords: Breast cancer, Type 2 diabetes, hyperglycemia, glucose, drug resistance
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Department: Molecular Development Reproduction and Genetics
Email ID: deepaksaini@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://sites.google.com/site/sainislab/home
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Keywords:Aging, liver, fibrosis, drug metabolism
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Department: Centre for neuroscience
Email ID: kavitababu@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: http://www.cns.iisc.ac.in/home/people/kavita-babu/
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Department: Microbiology & Cell Biology (MCB)
Email ID: skumar1@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://mcbl.iisc.ac.in/kumaravel-somasundaram/
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Department: Instrumentation and Applied Physics
Email ID: jayap@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://pnjayaprakash88.wixsite.com/fist-lab
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Department: Biochemistry
Email ID: rajyaguru@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://rajgodhuli.wixsite.com/rajyaguru-lab
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Department: Biochemistry
Email ID: nandi@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://biochem.iisc.ac.in/dipankar-nandi.php
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Department: Chemical Engineering and BioSystems Science and Engineering
Email ID: rahulroy@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://nanobiology.nanobiophotonics.org/
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Department: Electrical Engineering
Email ID: prasantg@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://spire.ee.iisc.ac.in/spire/
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Department: Centre for Sustainable Technologies
Email ID: monto@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://cst.iisc.ac.in/sudesi/
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Department: Center for Neuroscience
Email ID: jbalaji@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: http://www.cns.iisc.ac.in/balaji/
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Department: Microbiology and Cell Biology
Email ID: sdas@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://mcbl.iisc.ac.in/saumitra-das/
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Department: Materials Research Centre
Email ID: bikram@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://bikramjitbasu.in/
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Department: Mechanical Engineering
Email ID: bobji@iisc.ac.in
Lab website link: https://mecheng.iisc.ac.in/people/m-s-bobji/
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