Extramurally funded Research Projects
The Department is now well established, with six faculty members currently. Extramural grants from DBT, DST, ICMR, CSIR, UGC, ICAR, MNRE, MoFPI and DRDO, as well as intramural grants from the University of Delhi, have strengthened the Department’s research. The Department has also been funded under the DST-FIST, UGC-SAP and DU-DST PURSE programmes.
Sources of extramural funding for our Department
List of Research Projects carried out in Department (2010 onward):
|
Title |
Faculty |
Year of sanction |
Grant (in lakhs) |
Funding Agency |
| Investigating the role of purified human milk oligosaccharide as antibiofilm agents for multi drug resistant bacteria.
|
Dr. Ashwini Chauhan |
2024 |
|
ICMR |
|
A novel method for rapid detection of Antimicrobial Resistance |
Dr. Pau Biak Sang |
2024 |
91 |
ICMR |
|
Towards identifying parasite-specific proteins involved in DNA replication in the protozoan Leishmania donovani |
Prof Swati Saha |
2022 |
68.99 |
DBT |
|
Center of Antibody Engineering: Center for Immuno-Diagnostics/ Therapeutics Veneering technologies (CIVET) |
Prof Rajeev Kaul and Prof YP Khasa |
2022 |
187 |
DST-SERB |
|
Specific Single domain antibodies (sdAbs) against antimicrobial resistant Mastitis pathogen for clinical therapeutic use in dairy animals |
Prof Rajeev Kaul and Prof YP Khasa |
2022 |
59.6 |
DBT |
|
Unravelling the Mystery of Bacterial Persistent Infection: Genome-wide Identification and characterization of Toxin-Antitoxin systems of Helicobacter pylori |
Dr. Vijay Verma |
2021 |
47 |
ICMR |
|
Characterization of the SET domain proteins SET2 and SET3 in Leishmania donovani |
Prof Swati Saha |
2020 |
58.1 |
SERB |
|
Fostering Innovation and technology development through BioIncubation” awarded to the Department of Microbiology |
Prof Swati Saha |
2020 |
444.67 |
BIRAC-BioNEST |
|
Designing and large scale production of recombinant single chain antibody (scFv) against human Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha (hTNF-alfa) |
Prof YP Khasa |
2019 |
48.84 |
MHRD-STAR |
|
Genome mining of Pichia pastoris for the development of yeast cell surface display technology using its native cell wall anchoring proteins: bioprocess optimization and its biotechnological applications |
Prof YP Khasa |
2019 |
39.59 |
SERB |
|
Investigating cell cycle dependent gene expression in the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani: a genome-wide study |
Prof Swati Saha |
2019 |
82.6 |
DBT |
| Process development for enzymatic synthesis of L-theanine, a nutraceutical using gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase from Bacillus licheniformis
|
Prof Rani Gupta |
2018 |
33.14 |
DRDO |
|
Resistance-genes-array based rapid detection of antimicrobial resistance and algorithm driven therapy |
Prof. J.S.Virdi |
2017 |
12.90 |
BIRAC-DBT |
|
Engineering Pichia pastoris to address catabolite repression and methanol usage for AOX-1 guided expression |
Prof. Rani Gupta |
2017 |
49.54 |
DBT |
|
Understanding the molecular basis of peste-des-petits ruminants virus mediated host immune modulation for development of next generation vaccine |
Dr. Rajeev Kaul |
2017 |
58.00 |
ICAR |
|
Investigation of the roles of GNAT-family histone acetyltransferases Elp3a and Elp3b in the protozoan Leishmania donovani |
Prof. Swati Saha |
2016 |
67.82 |
DBT |
|
Investigating DNA replication protein Cdc45 in Leishmania |
Prof. Swati Saha |
2015 |
49.50 |
DST |
|
Molecular Surveillance of animal viral pathogens prevalent in Leh-Ladakh region |
Dr. Rajeev Kaul |
2015 |
9.83 |
DRDO |
|
Genome wide survey of lipases from Yarrowia lipolytica: cloning, expression,biochemical characterization and applications |
Prof. Rani Gupta |
2014 |
44.43 |
DBT |
|
Production of recombinant….. phytase of Sporotrichum thermophile |
Prof. Tulasi Satyanarayana |
2013 |
23.25 |
DBT |
|
Diversity of carboxidotrophic… …actinobacteria in Manipur |
Prof. Tulasi Satyanarayana |
2013 |
30.65 |
DBT |
|
Development of seaweed biorefinery and pilot demonstration of Bioethanol production |
Prof. R.C. Kuhad
|
2013 |
34.47 |
DBT |
|
Development of pretreatment strategies and bioprocess for improved production of cellulolytic enzymes and ethanol from crop byproduct for demonstration at pilot plant |
Prof. R.C. Kuhad
|
2013 |
148.47 |
MNRE |
|
Optimization of cellulase production from Thermoascus aurantiacus RCK 2011, a thermophilic fungus and its application in cellulose hydrolysis |
Prof. R.C. Kuhad
|
2013 |
10.51 |
UGC |
|
Production of recombinant….. phytase of Sporotrichum thermophile |
Prof. Tulasi Satyanarayana |
2013 |
23.25 |
DBT |
|
Bioprocess development of recombinant therapeutics in Pichia pastoris:Human Interleukin-3 (hIL-3) as a model system |
Dr. Y. P. Khasa |
2013 |
51.59 |
DBT |
|
Cloning and expression of cell-bound phytaseencoding gene of P. anomala in Pichia pastoris |
Prof. Tulasi Satyanarayana |
2012 |
13.27 |
UGC |
|
Production, characterization and applicability of acidic amylase of Bacillus acidicola TSAS 1 |
Prof. Tulasi Satyanarayana |
2012 |
33.31 |
DST |
|
Joint Indo-Finland RFBR - Butanol from sustainable sources |
Prof. R.K.Saxena |
2012 |
34.12 |
DST |
|
Joint Indo-Russian enzymatic transformation of Fucodians as a base for drug design, structural and functional investigations from Indian and Russian seaweeds |
Prof. R.K.Saxena |
2012 |
22.00 |
DST |
|
Hepatitis C Virus & expression of cox-2 |
Dr. Rajeev Kaul |
2012 |
55.00 |
DBT |
|
Viral metagenomics |
Dr. Rajeev Kaul |
2012 |
40.00 |
DST |
|
Generations of EBV transformed LCLs of diverse origin |
Dr. Rajeev Kaul |
2012 |
14.00 |
UGC |
|
Functional characterization of histone acetyltransferases HAT2 and HAT3 in the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani |
Prof. Swati Saha |
2012 |
62.00 |
DBT |
|
Functional characterization of histone acetylases HAT4 in Leishmania donovani |
Prof. Swati Saha |
2012 |
27.00 |
CSIR |
|
Bioprocess optimization of human granulocyte macrophage colony Stimulating Factor (hGM-CSF) expression in Escherichia coli |
Dr. Y.P.Khasa |
2012 |
25.00 |
DST |
|
Bioprocess optimization of scFv production against hGM-CSF in methylotrophic yeast, Pichia pastoris |
Dr. Y.P.Khasa |
2012 |
8.45 |
UGC |
|
Comparative genomics of β-lactamase genes including in-silico analysis to identify sequences for β-lactamase inhibitors |
Prof. J.S.Virdi |
2012 |
35.00 |
ICMR |
|
Utilization of peptidomimetics to design small molecules from a novel P1 peptide, their interaction with beta amyloid oligomers by in-silico and in-vitro approaches, and its efficiency in clearing beta amyloid load by ex vivo model of Alzheimer’s disease |
Prof. Rani Gupta |
2012 |
22.00 |
DBT-BIRAC |
|
Characterization of the DNA replication proteins Cdc6/ORC1 and MCM in the archaeon Picrophilus torridus |
Prof. Swati Saha |
2011 |
39.00 |
DST |
|
Cloning expression and bioprocess optimization of recombinant human interleukin-7 (hIL-7) in methylotrophic yeast Pichia Pastoris |
Dr.Y.P.Khasa |
2011 |
30.50 |
DBT |
|
Mechanism of EBV latency control by inflammation |
Dr. Rajeev Kaul |
2011 |
40.00 |
DBT |
|
Enzymatic synthesis of Theanine: A nutraceutical using microbialg-glutamyl transpeptidase |
Prof. Rani Gupta |
2010 |
23.00 |
MoFPI |
|
Keratinase from Bacillus pumilus for degradation of recalcitrant proteins: process optimization and Biochemical |
Prof. Rani Gupta |
2010 |
29.00 |
DBT |
|
Biochemical and molecular characterization of and enantioselective lipase from Trichosporan ashaii MSR-54 |
External funding sources for research and grant amount received by Department from them (2010 onward):
|
Name of the funding Agencies |
Total sanctioned (in lakhs) |
|
Department of Biotechnology (DBT) |
524.81 |
|
Department of Science and Technology (DST) |
242.93 |
|
University Grant Commission (UGC) |
46.23 |
|
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) |
48.83 |
|
Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) |
23.00 |
|
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) |
35.00 |
|
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) |
58.00 |
|
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) |
148.47 |
|
Defence Research and Development Organization |
9.83 |
|
UGC-SAP |
66.75 |
|
DU-DST PURSE grant |
200.00 |
|
TOTAL |
1408.85 |