MBBS / MPH Internship Program
Supervisors for MBBS Internship
Prof. Manish Arora
Centre/Department: Design and Manufacturing
Email: marora@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Medical Device Development, Ultrasound imaging.
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: Infectious disease, 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
Dr. 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: Mammalian gene expression.
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@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/
Dr. Prabhakar T V
Centre/Department: Electronic System Engineering
Email: tvprabs@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Networked Embedded Systems and IOT.
Lab website: https://labs.dese.iisc.ac.in/zenlab/ongoing-projects/
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. The candidate will help in data collection, model evaluation and benchmarking of systems with domain knowledge.
Lab website: http://leap.ee.iisc.ac.in/
Dr. Jonas S. Sundarakumar
Centre/Department: Centre for Brain Research
Email: jonas@cbr-iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Identifying risk and protective factors of dementia. Developing a composite biomarker for the early diagnosis of dementia.
Lab website: https://cbr-iisc.ac.in/jonas-sundarakumar/
Dr. William R. Surin
Centre/Department: Microbiology and Cell Biology
Email: wrsurin@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Thrombosis, Platelets, and Anti-thrombotics: Understanding platelet signaling pathways and interventions. Elucidating the pathogenesis of COPD by developing suitable animal models and in vitro test systems and to identify the suitable targets/pathways for therapeutics/interventions in the treatment of COPD diseases. Application of Flow Cytometry in Biological Studies.
Lab website: https://mcb.iisc.ac.in/research-single/william-r-surin
Prof. Subba Rao Gangi Setty
Centre/Department: Microbiology and Cell Biology
Email: subba@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Skin pigmentation, health and hygiene.
Lab website: https://mcb.iisc.ac.in/research-single/subba-rao-gangi-setty
Dr. Vaanathi Sundaresan
Centre/Department: Department of Computational and Data Sciences
Email: vaanathi@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Medical imaging, developing AI techniques for precision medicine using imaging data, specific focus on vascular cognitive impairment.
Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/biomedia-lab/home
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: Brain Research, Alzheimer’s disease, Gamma Stimulation, Neurotransmitters, Neurophysiology, Neural circuits, Brain Stimulation, Mice Model, Electroencphalography (EEG) Human EEG, Human ECG, Prefrontal Cortex, Closed-loop Brain Stimulation, Sleep.
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. Sudha Kumari
Centre/Department: Microbiology and Cell Biology
Email: Sudhakm@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Immunology, Immunotherapy
Lab website: https://mcb.iisc.ac.in/research-single/sudha-kumari
Dr. Vini Gautam
Centre/Department: Centre for Nanao Science and Engineering
Email: vini@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: State-of-the-art technologies in materials science and engineering to address challenging problems in the field of neurosciences. We specifically work on neural interfaces, nanotechnology and bioelectronics.
Lab website: https://www.cense.iisc.ac.in/neuroelectronics/
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/
Dr. Meetali Singh
Centre/Department: Developmental Biology and Genetics
Email: meetalisingh@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: small RNA, epigenetics, host-parasite interaction
Lab website: www.meetaliLab.com
Dr. Nikhil R Gandasi
Centre/Department: Developmental Biology and Genetics
Email: grnikhil@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Lab website: https://dbg.iisc.ac.in/people/nikhil-gandasi/
Dr. Swaminathan Sundararaman
Centre/Department: Nephrology, Division of Medical Sciences
Email: swami@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Area of Research: Iron metabolism, Kidney Diseases, Multiple Myeloma, Ageing, Brain-Kidney interactions, Acute Kidney Injury, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Artificial Intelligence, Chronic Kidney Disease
Prof. Balaji Jayaprakash
Centre/Department: Centre for Neuroscience
Email: jbalaji@iisc.ac.in
Area of Research: Learning Memory and Cognition