John received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia. He went on to do his Doctor of Medicine (MD) in Anatomy from Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, and continued work there as an Assistant Professor. He joined the lab through the MD-PhD program in 2021. He is interested in cancer research and currently working on colorectal cancer.
Rohit completed his PhD from Lucknow University. He is studying mutations in GC-C associated with cancer and the role of GC-C in regulating pancreatic function
Boby completed his PhD at IVRI, Izatnagar and completed postdoctoral stints in the USA. He is studying the gut-associated lmphoid tissue in mice harbouring mutations in GC-C.
Manisha completed her PhD at CSIR-IMTech, Chandigarh. She is looking how GC-C regulates intestinal infection by bacterial pathogens.
Nalina is the lab manager taking care of almost everything in the lab and always going out of her way to help anyone for anything!
Dhruv is the go-to person to get things done in the lab! Be it from experiments or cataloguing material!
Pallavi is interested in looking at gut organoids from our mouse models and in understanding how cGMP regulates intestinal cell differentiation
Keerthan is understanding how disease causing mutations in GUCY2C affect receptor function
Dr. Harsh Kumar
(2025) Post-doctoral Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Dr. Kritica Sharma
(2025)
Dr. Moubani Chakraborty
(2024) Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Newcastle, UK
Dr. Somesh Nandi
(2024)
Dr. Pooja Chaukimath (2023)
Dr. Avipsa Bose
2023, Post-doctoral Fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Priyanka Biswas
2021, Post-doctoral fellow, Imperial College London, UK
Dr. Vishwas Mishra
2020, Post-doctoral fellow, Imperial College London, UK
Dr. Kriti Gupta
2018, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr. Arka Banerjee
2018, Postdoctoral Fellow at Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.
Dr. Anisha Zaveri
2016, Lead Data Scientist, Peapod Digital Labs, Chicago, USA.
Dr. Vishnu Janardan
2016, Senior Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bangalore .
Dr. Nishad Matange
2013, Assistant Professor, IISER Pune.
Dr. Rohini Mattoo
2012
Dr. Nirmalya Basu
2012, Assistant Professor, St. Joseph's College, Bangalore.
Dr. Subhalaxmi Nambi
2012, Director - Life Sciences Research, General Atlantic, New York, USA
Dr. Najla Arshad
2011, Assistant Professor, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago, USA
Dr. Kabir Hassan Biswas
2011, Associate Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa Universit, Doha, Qatar
Dr. Ritu Sharma
2011, Regulatory Scientist, AveXis Inc., Chicago, USA.
Dr. Richa Tyagi
2010, Lecturer, Advanced Academic Programs, Research Associate and Adjunct Faculty, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, USA.
Dr. Sayanti Saha
2009, Senior Manager, Amgen, California, USA
Dr. Vivek T. Natarajan
2006, Senior scientist, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India.
Dr. Arindam Basu
2005, Assistant Professor, Penn State Brandywine, USA.
Dr. Amit D. Ketkar
2005, Instructor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas, USA.
Dr. Avinash R. Shenoy
2005, Reader in Molecular Microbiology, Imperial College, London.
Dr. Mahaboobi Jaleel
2004, Senior Director, Sai Life Sciences Ltd., Pune, India.
Dr. Shailaja Sopory
2003, Senior Research Scientist, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon, India.
Dr. Yashoda Ghanekar
2003, Co-Founder, DeepSeq Bioinformatics, Bangalore.
Dr. U. H. Manjunath
2002 (with Prof. V. Nagaraja), Group Leader, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research, Emeryville, California, USA.
Dr. Rashna Bhandari
2000, Senior Scientist and Group Leader, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Nivedita Roy
1999, Associate Director, Global Regulatory Affairs, Merck Group, Aubonne, Switzerland.
Dr. Manjiri M. Bakre
1998, CEO, Oncostem Diagnostics, Bangalore, India.
Dr. Animesh Nandi
1998, Account Manager, Bio-Rad Laboratories, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Dr. V. Sooryanarayana
1997 (with Prof. P. R. Adiga), Research Assistant Professor, Univ. of Michigan Medical School, USA.