News and Updates

2025

2024

November 2024: Department of Biotechnology posted, "Latent TB infections resist antibiotics due to mycobacteria’s adaptive lipid membranes. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay uncover these lipidomic changes along with the pathogen's membrane dynamics, demonstrating the potential for development of innovative therapies like lipid-targeted drugs to combat persistent TB. Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sc06618a" Congratulations Anjana and the team for this commendable work!
October 2024: Congratulations Lydia on being selected as Judges' Choice in the Sci-capture 2024 International Science Photo Contest
August 2024: Dr. Shobhna Kapoor received the research excellence award. Congratulations!
July 2024: Ketan Kulkarni joins our group. Welcome
June 2024: Lydia wins travel grant to attend the 12th Bio-SPM Summer School at Kanazawa University, Japan
February 2024: Welcome our new Post Doc Dr. Nishant Pandey to our lab!
February 2024: Dr. Shobhna Kapoor received the ACS Infectious Diseases/ACS Division of Biological Chemistry Young Investigator Award
January 2024: Prema was awarded BPS travel grant for BPS meeting 2024.

2023

Dr. Shobhna Kapoor received the MERCK Young Scientist Award, Chemical Sciences
Dr. Shobhna Kapoor received the INSA, INYAS Young Scientist Award
November 2023: Lab welcomes Anu Joshi as an Internship Student for her Master thesis research.
September 2023: Anjana won grant for 2023 EMBO Workshop: Great Wall Symposium held at Sintra, Portugal
August 2023: Manjari won the best thesis award, "Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Research"
July 2023: Lab welcomes new members Mosami, Prajakta and Souvik
July 2023: Prema was awarded travel grant to attend ISREC-SCCL Symposium 2023 on the topic of cancer biology at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
March 2023: Prema was awarded EMBO travel grant to attend India on the topic of tumour metabolism at Noida, India.
March 2023: Prema received Best Poster Presentation award at India on the topic of tumour metabolism at Noida, India

2022

December 2022: Dr. Shobhna Kapoor received the NASI SCOPUS Young Scientist Award
September 2022: Anjana was awarded EMBL Australia travel fund for EMBO workshop chemical biology 2022, Heidelberg, Germany.
September 2022: Dheeraj Kumar secures a PhD position at at Université de Sherbrooke, Quebeck, Canada. Lots of good luck!
July 2022: Prema gets awarded EMBO Travel Grant to attend the EMBO workshop on cancer signaling, Croatia
July 2022: Aswin wins second position in the Young Researcher Pitch Competition 11th International Conference on High Pressure Bioscience and Biotechnology, Denmark.
June 2022: Pranav gets awarded full scholarship to attend the Summer School in Solvation Science in Ruhr Bochum, Germany.
May 2022: Lydia Mathew joins our group. Welcome.

2021

December 2021: Lab welcomes Lydia Mathew as an Internship Student for her Master thesis research.
July 2021: Lab welcomes new members, Saitali, Aishi and Dheeraj
May 2021: Lab is awarded with India Alliance DBT Welcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship.

2020

Dr. Shobhna Kapoor received the Biophysical Society Virtual Travel Award
Dr. Shobhna Kapoor received the IIT Bombay Early Research Achiever Award
December 2020: SERB Women in Excellence awarded to Dr. Shobhna Kapoor
December 2020: NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award comes to Lab
October 2020: INSA medal for Young Scientists Award comes to Lab
Jan 2020: Manjari gets EMBO travel grant to attend EMBO symposium: Mycobacterial heterogeneity and host tissue tropism at Delhi, India.

2019

Dr. Shobhna Kapoor received the EMBO Travel Grant, EMBO
Dr. Shobhna Kapoor received the Young Scientist Award DAE-BRNS
May 2019: Abhishek Singh gets selected to attend the Summer School-Solvation Science in Bochum, Germany.
April 2019: The first publication from our lab get accepted! Congrats to all authors.
January 2019: Lab welcomes Abhishek Kalarikkal as an IRCC Internship Student for his master thesis research.

2018

August 2018: Ruchika wins travel grant to attend the 7th Bio-AFM summer school at Kanzawa University, Japan

July 2018: Ruchi Yadav secures a PhD position at Rutgers University, USA. We wish her all the best!
July 2018: Lab welcomes new PhD students Prema and Anjana
January 2018: Dr. Shobhna Kapoor is awarded the DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellowship.

2017

2016