Our Team

Ph.D. Students

Reema Singh

Qualification: M.Sc. Biotechnology, VBS University Jaunpur

Research Title: Effects of herbal plant extract on the integrity of bacterial biofilm.

Shivani Srivastava

Qualification: M.Sc. Bioinformatics, University of Allahabad

Research Title: miRNA based host directed therapy for bacterial disease.

Priyanka Singh

Qualification: M.Sc. Zoology, University of Allahabad

Research Title: Nanoparticles based delivery system for host directed therapy for tuberculosis.

Sapna Srivastava

Qualification: M.Sc. Biotechnology, Gorakhpur University

Research Title: Synthesis and evaluation of biofilm disruptor loaded bioinspired nanoparticles against mycobacterium smegmatis biofilm.

Alumni Students

Ph.D.

Dr. Preeti Yadav: Thesis title "Targeted delivery of insulin loaded chitosan nanoparticles to the lungs for diabetes treatment" Awarded on 29.03.2023.
Dr. Manish Gaur: Development and evaluation of SPLUNC1 protein based therapeutics peptide and peptide loaded composite nanoparticles for antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity. Awarded on 18.03.2024 (Assistant Professor)
Dr. Sarita : Development and evaluation of antibiotics loaded and DNase coated solid-lipid nanoparticles to combat against antibiotics resistance caused due to the biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus. Awarded on 6.04.2024

M.Sc. Dissertation Students:

Niti Singh (2012-2014 Batch) : Therapeutics Protein Nebulization for targeted delivery to the lungs disease (Postdoctoral Fellow in TB immunology at Rutgers University New Jersey, USA)
Monica Singh (2013-2015): Targeted delivery of PLGA Microparticles to the lung macrophages.
Anu Chauhan (2013-2015): Stability of therapeutic protein after nebulization to the lung delivery (PhD Student, CDRI Lucknow).
Vertika Mishra (2015): Antibacterial activity of Ciprofloxacin loaded chitosan Nanoparticles (PhD Student, UoA Prayagraj).
Preksha Gaur (2014-2016): Antioxidant Properties of Mushroom Extract Loaded Chitosan Nanoparticles (Postdoctoral Fellow at MGH, Harvard, USA).
Anil Kumar Singh (2015-2017): Antioxidant property of Pleurotus flabellatus mushroom extract loaded chitosan nanoparticles (PhD Student, CDRI Lucknow).
Arun Nandwani (2015-2017): Preparation and characterization of Plasmid Loaded Alginate-Chitosan Nanoparticle (PhD Student, IGIB Delhi).
Shrisha Palit (2015-2017) : Preparation and Evaluation of Antibacterial activity of Levofloxacin loaded chitosan-alginate nanoparticles (PhD Student, IISER Pune).
Shivani Karalia (2017-2019): Staphylococcal Biofilm Disruption using DNase-I coated PLGA Nanoparticles (PhD Student, NII Delhi).
Shivani Kumari (2017-2019): HPLC Method Development of Ciprofloxacin Estimation in Serum Sample (PhD Student, SGPGI Lucknow).
Shakshi Vashisht (2017-2019): Targeted delivery of eGFP gene cloned expression vector loaded PLGA Microparticles into Lung Cancer cell line. (PhD Student, IGIB Delhi)
Kiran Kumar (2018-2020): Antibiofilm activity of drug loaded Nanoparticles. (PhD Student IIT Madras)
Kapil Dev Sharma (2018-2020): Synthesis and characterization of Rifampicin and Isoniazid loaded PLGA Nanoparticles.
Ritu Tripathi (2019-2021): Design and optimization of anti-biofilm peptides based on SPLUNC1 protein using bioinformatics tools (DBT JRF, Selected as PhD student IIT Guwahati)
Sachin Mishra (2019-2021): Design of sgRNA sequences targeting EGFR and K-RAS gene using bioinformatics tools for CRISPRi based gene expression inhibition of lung cancer.(DBT JRF 2021, Selected as PhD student IIT Chennai)
Gopal Sarkar (2019-2021): Design sgRNA sequence of eGFR and K-ras gene using bioinformatics tools for CRISPRi Based gene expression inhibition of lung cancer. (Selected as PhD student JNU New Delhi)
Sonali Shukla (2019-2021): siRNA Design and sequence optimization using Bioinformatics tool for GPCR gene involved into lung cancer.
Satish Ojha (2020-2022): Design and Optimization of SLPI protein based peptide with antibiofilm activity using bioinformatics tools and simulated study of toxicity.
Purnima Tiwari (2020-2022): Destabilization of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm by peptide loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles (SLNs). (DST Inspire: Sellected as PhD student CDRI Lko)
Sonam Verma (2020-2022): Preparation and Characterization of Peptide-loaded PLGA-Chitosan composite Nanoparticles and their effects on Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm
Ankita Mishra (2020-2022): Preparation, Optimization And Characterization Of Doxorubicin Anticancer Drug Loaded Chitosan-PLGA Composite Nanoparticle.
Shakshi Chaudhari (2020-2022): Preparation, optimization and treatment of staphylococcus aureus biofilm disruption using DNAse l.
Kajal Mishra (2021-2023): Evaluation of antibiofilm activity of a novel peptide against Mycobacterium smegmatis.
Ravikant Prajapati (2021-2023): Evaluation of anti-biofilm activity of a novel peptides derived from SLPI protein against Staphylococcus aureus biofilm. (Project Associate CIMAP)
Nimisha Mishra (2021-2023): Construction of non-coding RNA and drug interaction pathway for therapeutic interventions in pulmonary tuberculosis. (Research assistant at Startup incubated in IIT Delhi)
Sansthita Yadav (2021-2023): Design and Optimization of Protein based peptide with anti-biofilm activity using bioinformatics tools and simulated study of toxicity. (E- commerce company in Dubai)
Anjali Kushwaha (2021-2023): Construction of Long Non Coding RNA and Micro RNA interaction pathway for therapeutics intervention in pulmonary tuberculosis.
Shruti Pandey (2022-2024): Design and optimization of Antibiofilm Peptides based on ‘ELAFIN’ protein, using bioinformatics tools. (DST Inspire Qualified)
Priya Gupta (2022-2024): Design and optimization of protein MUC5AC based protein with anti-cancer activity using bioinformatics tools.
Mansi Gautam (2022-2024): Antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity of plant extract (Combretum indicum) against Staphylococcus aureus bacterial biofilm.
Neda Mobeen (2022-2024): Evaluation of the antibiofilm and antimicrobial activity of leaf extract of Cathranthus roses on Staphylococcus aureus.

Project Interns:

1. Vaishali Gupta (May 2015, B.tech Amity Lucknow) : Plasmid isolation and shRNA cloning in eukaryotic plasmid vector.

2. Kriti Yadav (8th June 2022, Chandigarh University)

3. Satish Kumar Ojha: August 2022 to October 2022; Internship under SERB Project Core Grant SSR activity.

Project Students:

Amol Tripathi : Project Assistant Under DIC project (2017-2019)
Charu Misra: DST Project JRF & SRF (November 2016-April 2019)
Preeti Yadav: DBT Project JRF (Feb 2018-June 2019)
Atul Kumar Mishra: DBT Project JRF (Nov 2019-July 2021)

Student Trainee:

Manisha Yadav: January 2023 to June 2023: M.Sc. from VBS University Purvanchal Jaunpur: Currently Ph.D. Student CDRI Lucknow.