Meet The Team
Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty
PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST
Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty leads the RNA Biology Lab at CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, serving as a Principal Scientist. He earned his Master’s in Molecular Biology from West Bengal University of Technology and completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics in Dresden. After postdoctoral research at TU Dresden, he established his lab at IGIB. An award-winning scientist and EMBO Young Investigator, he is also an accomplished sitarist with international performances.
Lalit Parkash
LAB MANAGER
Lab management and administration
Started in: 2017
Ram Babu
PROJECT ASSISTANT
Assisting in projects and lab administration
Started in: 2025
Dr. Chethan Kumar J S
PROJECT SCIENTIST - I
cGMP Personnel
Involved in CRISPR therapeutics for hematopoietic stem cell (HSC)-based diseases.
Started in: 2024
Education: PhD in Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Patrick Adu
RESEARCH FELLOW
Optimizing the FELUDA assay for multiplex detection of hemoglobinopathies.
Started in: 2024
Education: PhD in Infection & Immunity
Dr. Gunjan Chauhan
SENIOR PROJECT ASSOCIATE
Developing CAR-T cell therapy targeting B-cell hematologic malignancies with a focus on optimizing antigen recognition, enhancing cellular persistence, and maximizing therapeutic efficacy.
Started in: 2024
Education: Ph.D. in Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
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Rhythm Phutela
PhD STUDENT
CRISPR based diagnostics and therapy development
Started in: 2018
Education: Masters in Zoology
Sajal Sarkar
PhD STUDENT
Structure Function understanding of enFnCas9 and it's therapeutic Delivery
Started in: 2019
Education: Masters in Life Sciences
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Prabhleen Kaur
PhD STUDENT
Beyond DNA: The Expanding Functional Repertoire of Cas9
Started in: 2021
Education: Masters in Zoology
Arushi Goel
PhD STUDENT
Development of an optimised genome editing strategy for therapeutic intervention of Sickle cell Anemia
Started in: 2022
Education: Masters in Forensic Science
Prosad Kumar Das
PhD STUDENT
CRISPR-Dx of infectious agents and ML- models for CRISPR-Cas
Started in: 2022
Education: Masters in Biology
Mahima Kapoor
PhD STUDENT
Development of engineered FnCas9-based therapeutic gene editing strategies for Muscular Dystrophy
Started in: 2023
Education: Masters in Neuroscience
Susi Mathews
PhD STUDENT
Development of robust in-vivo gene editing strategies for hematopoietic stem cell based therapies
Started in: 2023
Education: Masters in Biotechnology
Yogeshwar Singh
PhD STUDENT
Developing enFnCas-based gene therapy for β-thalassemia, optimizing processes for clinical trials and establishing an ex vivo curative pipeline.
Started in: 2023
Education: Masters in Biotechnology
Krishna Sawarn
PhD STUDENT
Investigating and comparing double-strand break (DSB) DNA repair mechanisms in CD34+ cells and HEK293T cells.
Started in: 2024
Education: Masters in Biotechnology
Anmol Kumar Sharma
PhD STUDENT
Started in: 2025
Education: Masters in Microbiology
Vishal Bharti
PROJECT ASSOCIATE - II
Developing an advanced statistical analysis app, conducting scRNA-Seq analysis, and creating customized downstream pipelines and composite scoring systems to enhance the understanding of single-cell data.
Started in: 2023
Education: M.Tech in Biotechnology
Parikshit Chattopadhyay
PROJECT ASSOCIATE - I
Purification of enhanced variants of FnCas9.
Started in: 2023
Education: Masters in Zoology
C. Afzal
PROJECT ASSOCIATE - I
Purification of enhanced variants of FnCas9.
Started in: 2023
Education: Masters in Zoology
Akschya Sivacoumar
PROJECT ASSOCIATE - II
Bioinformatics support and translational research in developing CRISPR based gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies.
Started in: 2025
Education: Masters in Bioinformatics
Chokey Langtso
TRAINEE
Comprehensive Training in CRISPR Technologies: From Design to Validation
Started in: 2025
Education: Masters in Biomedical Sciences
ALUMINI
Sundaram Acharya
Currently at University of Tokyo as Post- Doctorate Fellow.
Shubham Rana
Graduate Student at Hannover Medical School
Kanikah Mehndiratta
Georg-Speyer-Haus, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt
Manoj Kumar
Post Doc at Rockefeller University
Asgar Hussain Ansari
Currently at Vindhya Data Science, U.S
Sameer Dixit
Currently at Cornell University, U.S
Ashish Sharma
Currently at Bayer, U.S
Sidak Minocha
Currently at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sneha Gulati
Jayram M
Shalini Roy Chowdhary
University of Cambridge
Sunaina Singh Rajput
Currently at Aurigene Discovery Technologies
Deepanjan Paul
Currently at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Mohd. Azhar
Currently Post-Doc at NIH
Namrata Sharma
Currently at Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
Smita Nahar
Currently Scientist at AstraZeneca, Basel
Arpit Mishra
Currently at University of Washington U.S
Nanda Kumar
Currently at FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milano
Shivaksh Ahluwalia
Currently at IIT Delhi
Meghali Aich
Currently Post-Doc at Stanford University
Riya Rauthan
Mahima Dey
Currently at German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)