Abhishek is 2019 Khorana Scholar. He worked with Dr. Bikash R Pattnaik, of pediatrics/ ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Wisconsin Madison, the USA studying the Kir7.1 ion channel and its role in pediatrics blindness. Abhishek completed an integrated master’s in biological sciences from the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India.
Read More
Dhanya is a 2019 Khorana Scholar. She worked with Dr. Stephen Nowicki at Duke University, exploring how animals communicate using colour. Studying how birds perceive colour and how this affects mate choice using the fundamental principles of behavioural ecology was an exciting and valuable learning experience for her. She completed the Bachelor of Science (Research)
Read More
Amartya is a 2019 Khorana Scholar. He got the opportunity to work with Dr. Ritu Aneja at Georgia State University, GA, USA. His work at GSU demonstrated a positive correlation between lipid droplet accumulation, one of the emerging hallmarks of cancer, and drug-mediated stress in triple-negative breast cancer cell lines. He completed his Bachelor of
Read More
Anil graduated from IIT Madras with Integrated B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Biotechnology. As a 2015 Khorana Scholar, he worked in Professor Aseem Ansari’s group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Dr. Ansari’s lab, he tested the putative role of a synthetic epigenetic mimic in stimulating the transcriptional elongation of frataxin gene in Friedreich’s Ataxia. His
Read More
As a Khorana Scholar 2014, I was fortunate to get an opportunity to work with Dr. Richard Vierstra at UW Madison for a summer. Carrying the amazing learning experience in heart, I went back to Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, my alma mater, to finish my integrated bachelor’s and master’s degree in Biochemical Engineering and
Read More
As a Khorana scholar during summer 2014, Sanjan Gupta got an oppurtunity to work in Dr. Jennifer Reed’s lab at University of Wisconsin Madison. Soon after completing his B.Tech from IIT-Madras, he joined back the lab as a PhD student and is currently developing machine learning based approaches for engineering microbes. His undergrad training at
Read More
Harisha Rajanala is a 2010 Khorana Scholar. She worked at UW-Madison in the laboratory of Dr.Paul Ahlquist at the Institute of Molecular Virology. Her work focused on identifying biomarkers for different stages of HPV-associated cervical cancer. Apart from lab, she enjoyed exploring the food and music scene at Madison and Chicago. Harisha returned to Madison
Read More
Devesh is 2008 Khorana Scholar from Electronics & Communication Engineering from IIT Roorkee, India. He worked in Professor Aseem Ansari’s Biochemistry lab in University of Wisconsin Madison for the summer. It was a great learning experience for him working in inter-disciplinary research and he learnt to communicate with people of completely different field. He worked
Read More
Aayushi graduated from SRM University, Chennai with a B.tech in Biotechnology. She is a recipient of the Indian Academy of Sciences and JNCASR fellowships in India and has worked at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and Advance Centre for Treatment and Research in Cancer (ACTREC), Navi Mumbai. As a summer 2010
Read More
As a Summer 2013 S.N. Bose Scholar, Melanie was able to conduct research at the National Centre for Cell Science in Pune, Maharashtra. Her lab work focused on the fitness of chaperonin proteins sourced from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the major cause of tuberculosis, and their role in cell division. Outside of her time in lab, she
Read More