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Welcome to BSBE! The department was established in the year 2001 with the vision of conducting cutting-edge research and providing quality teaching and research training in basic biology, biomedical and bioengineering fields. Our faculty and students come from a range of science and engineering disciplines and work in challenging problems that transcend the boundaries of science, engineering and medicine. For more information, please explore the website!
-Prof. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay
Head, Department of Biological sciences and Bioengineering
- BSBE MTech interview dates (online) : 5-6th May
- Biomedical Engineering MTech interview dates (online): 7-8th May
- PhD interview dates (on campus): 9-13th May
- List of selected candidates for PhD interviews
- Cut-off for PhD interviews
- 15th &16th May: MID-NAMSCON 2025 and CME workshop on "ADVANCEMENTS IN MEDTECH FOR SHAPING THE FUTURE HEALTHCARE. Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/mid-namscon2025/home?authuser=0
- 7th to 9th December: 48th All India Cell Biology Conference and Symposium, on the theme: "From Cell to Therapeutics". Conference website: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~sganesh/aicbcs/
- Application for PhD and MTech Admissions 2025
Applications are invited from all students having a Bachelor’s and/or a Master’s degree in ANY field of Science and/or Engineering for pursuing a PhD and/or MTech in different programs of BSBE.
Faculty Members
Faculty positions are open for candidates with a demonstrated potential for imaginative research in all frontier areas of modern biology and bioengineering.
For details, click here.
Postdoctoral Fellows
BSBE offers postdoctoral positions for aspiring young PhD degree holders to pursue independent research.
For details, click here.
JOY AND MANMOHAN GILL ENDOWMENT FUND
Set up by Mr. Ajit S. Gill (BT/EE/1969), and named after his parents, the objective of this Endowment is to support a number of activities in the Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Department at IIT Kanpur. The endowment supports the Joy Gill Chair, four UG scholarships, summer internships and summer research opportunities for the students, and a Business Plan Competition. Mr. Gill holds a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IITK, an M.S. from the University of Nebraska, and an M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Current Mr. Gill is serving as President & CEO, Nektar Therapeutics, Santa Carlos, California.
In Mr. Gill words, "setting up this endowment was very important to me as a way of thanking my parents and my family. Doing it at IITK, the institution that gave me my educational foundation was critical as a way of helping IITK continue to maintain its tradition of excellence while giving other students the opportunity to get a great education."
This Endowment Fund covers several scholarship, internship and prize money for the undergraduate students of BSBE, besides a Chair Professor. These are:
- Baljit and Nirmal Dhindsa UG Scholarship for 2 students
Scholarship for 2nd year undergraduate students based on their CPI in 1st year. - Mona and Paramjit Singh UG Scholarship for 2 students
Scholarship for 3rd year undergraduate students based on their CPI in 2nd year. - Bio innovation summer research internship for UG students
Summer innovation award for UG students of the 7th Semester. To be awarded to 6 students for summer training at Industry/Institute/Research in India/Abroad - Manmohan Gill BioBusiness Competition
Competitions are being conducted as part of the Techkriti - Joy Gill Professor of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (Faculty Chair)
Chair position for outstanding young investigators under the age of 45 years in any area of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering. Current incumbent: Dr. Jayandharan G. Rao
Prof. Arabindo Nath Bose Endowed Lecture Series on Bioentrepreneurship
Made possible by a generous endowment from Dr. Arindam Bose (B. Tech/ChE/1975), currently the Vice-President, External Affairs & Strategy, Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pfizer, Inc, USA, in memory of his father, Prof. Arabindo Nath Bose.
Prof. Arabindo Nath Bose received his PhD in Nutrition and Food Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon returning to India in the early 1950's, he established the department of Food Technology at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He later served as the Director of the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology in Kerala. Prof. Bose returned to Jadavpur University in the early 1970's and was thereafter appointed Vice-Chancellor during a period of great political turmoil - he was instrumental in restoring order on campus. He continued his research in aquaculture engineering and was the founding Editor of the Journal of Aquaculture in the Tropics. Upon his retirement, Prof. Bose devoted his attention to establishing a primary school based on Vedic principles for children from families of modest means. Enrollment at Shri Ritam Vidyapith, which he founded, has now grown to over 750 students and encompasses Kindergarten to Grade X. Prof. Bose passed away on 19 March, 2003.
Past speakers include:
Prof. Balram Bhargava, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Prof. Rakesh K. Jain, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.
Dr. Ramesh Hariharan, CEO and Co-founder, Strand Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore.
Prof. D. Balasubramanian, Director of Research, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad.
Prof. M. S. Valiathan, Former VC, Manipal University, Manipal.
Prof. S. K. Brahmachari, Former DG, CSIR, New Delhi.
Dr. Kamal K. Sharma, Vice Chairman, Lupin Limited, Mumbai.
Dr. Balganesh, former VP, AstraZeneca India.
Dr. Venu Gopinathan, Texas Instruments.
Dr. R. Ramaswamy, InStem, Bangalore.
Mr. Ajit Gill, President & CEO, Nektar Therapeutics, California.
Dr. M. K. Bhan, Secretary, DBT, Government of India.
Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan, Director, NCBS, Bangalore.
Dr. Pradip Bhatnagar, VP, Ranbaxy Laboratories.
Prof. Anand Chakraborty, Univ. of Illinois.
Other Donor Scholarships
DR. R.K. SINGHAL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Third year students of B.Tech/B.Tech-M.Tech (dual degree). Based on merit-cum-means.
NITISH THAKOR SCHOLARSHIP
1st year B.Tech Students. Based on SPI at the end of 1st semester.
SAGNIK ASIS RAY SCHOLARSHIP
B.Tech 4th year students of BSBE. Based on merit-cum-means. Preference to be given to a student working on cancer related project.
BIMLAVATI AND NAWAL KISHORE KAPUR SCHOLARSHIP
Third year Female students for B.Tech./ B.Tech-M.Tech. Dual Degree students of BSBE or CSE. Based on merit-cum-means.
SHRIMATI BHAGWATI RAMESHWAR GOYAL SCHOLARSHIP
2nd year UG girl students of ME or BSBE. Based on merit-cum-means, with minimum CPI of 7.5.
Since the birth of the department in 2001 the department has put in efforts to address key questions in most of the fields of modern biology. It has labs working dedicatedly in all these fields namely; Bioinformatics, Biomaterials, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Gene therapy, Molecular genetics, Metabolic Disorders, Microbiology, Structural Biology, Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Neuroengineering and Tissue Engineering,’. Please visit the lab page of individual faculty members to know details in each of these research areas.
Furthermore, the department has a strong industry-academia relation with multiple start-up as well as established companies which bring about specific expertise and exposure for the labs and the students.
The establishment of Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology will exponentially increase clinically oriented research in the department with strong collaborations with clinicians housed in there.
UG/PG Teaching Labs (2900 sq ft):
The department has two laboratories (total 1600 Sq ft) with necessary facilities (microscopes, centrifuges, laminar hood, incubators, geldoc system, fermentor, electrophoressis apparatus, etc) for conducting lab courses (microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, biochemical engineering and biomaterials) for the undergraduate students (about 100/year), and a computational facility for bioinformatics lab (920 sq ft) equipped with work stations and network access to servers. In addition, an instrumentation lab (420 sq ft) for housing equipments for the UG/PG teaching is allotted in the teaching wing.
Core facilities of the Department (2600 Sq ft):
Each of the three floors of the department houses two central laboratories and special facilities to house the core facilities of the department. These included the ultra centrifuges, large volume centrifuges, shaker incubators, confocal and fluorescence microscopes, geldoc systems, water purifier, autoclaves, cold rooms, deep freezers, computational servers, scanning electron microscopes, virus culture facility, HPLC, peptide synthesizer, DNA sequencer, cell sorter, fractionator, etc.
X-ray crystallography facility (350 Sq ft) and Radioisotope facility (300 sq ft):
The basement of the BSBE building houses these two facilities. These include the X-ray diffractor, scintillation counter, phosphoimager etc.
BSBE offers both undergraduate (B. Tech.) and postgraduate (M. Tech. and PhD) programs. Please visit the links in the left menu to learn more.