Contact :
      Head,
      Department of Biotechnology,
      Bhupat & Jyoti Mehta School of        Biosciences Building.
      IIT Madras.
      Chennai 600 036.
      India.
      bthead@iitm.ac.in

   
 
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Our vision:

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To make an International impact through Research, Training, Technology Innovation and Service to Society.

Research thrust in:

             
Medical Biotechnology (Cardiovascular and Cancer).

             • Bioprocesses.


Research thrust in


Our faculty members are working in the following areas to contribute to the two research foci:


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Cellular, Molecular and Structural Biology related to: Signal Transduction, Ion Channels, Lipid Trafficking, Stem Cell Proliferation/Culture, Cell Stresses, Cancer, Cell Death, etc.; Molecular Genetics of Plant Development.

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Protein Crystallography; Protein Structure-function Relationships; Bioinformatics; Molecular Modeling; Protein-ligand Docking.

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Drug design,QSAR; siRNA Delivery.

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Bio-catalysis; Enzymes in Organic (asymmetric) Synthesis; Biosensors.

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Biomaterials.

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Biotransformation; Molecular Bioremediation; Biodegradation; Green Chemistry.

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Bioreactor Design and Analysis; Simulation and Control of Bioprocesses; Reactive Oxygen species in Bioreactors; Liquid Phase Oxygen-supply Strategy; Metabolic Engineering; Cloning of Therapeutic Proteins; Ethanol from Biomass; Plant tissue and Animal cell Culture; Enzyme Engineering; Downstream Processing; Scale-up.

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Computational Neuroscience; Signal Processing; Neural Networks; Character Recognition.

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Biomechanics; Biomedical Devices and Implants; Instrumentation; Ergonomics.

Courses Offered:

We offer B.Tech., 5 year Dual degree, MS., and Ph.D. programmes.