Success Stories
Ashish Ranjan
Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin – Madison
I was fortunate enough to volunteer for Sci-ROI and contribute to this very nice initiative. This was very learning and enriching experience under the guidance of Dr. Aseem Ansari. I got the opportunity to directly interact with the head of institutions and policymakers of Govt. of India. From the Sci ROI annual event platform, I got to know about the research opportunities and various funding resources available to new faculties in India. This helped me in my decision to apply for Ramalingaswami Re-entry fellowship. Fortunately, I have been awarded the fellowship and look forward to starting the research journey in the area of plant biotechnology in India.
Devesh Bhimsaria
Established his own company called Bio Informaticals
Devesh completed his B. Tech. & M. Tech. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) in 2010 with 1st Rank. He was selected as a Khorana scholar and as a part of it did his internship in summer of 2008. Devesh graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison with M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2016. During the course he received academic achievement award for securing GPA 4.0/4.0 and Peterson distinguished dissertation award for his Ph.D. dissertation.
Arun Kumar
Doctorate in Biotechnology; interest in genetic resistance in crops
Arun Kumar obtained his Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology from Punjab University, Chandigarh and CSIR-IHBT, Palampur, H.P. India in 2013. Thereafter, he joined Prof. AC Kushalappa’s group as postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, Canada (2013-2015), then moved to University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015-2017). Recently, Arun was awarded the prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship in 2017, and has joined School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab.
Dr. Abhinav Kanwal
Assistant Professor, Manipal University, Karnataka
Dr. Abhinav Kanwal grew up in Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh. He completed under-graduation in pharmaceutical sciences from Punjab University, Chandigarh and postgraduate studies in pharmacology and toxicology from NIPER-Hyderabad. He pursued PhD research at CSIR-IICT Hyderabad and DBT-THSTI, Faridabad, then joined University of Chicago as a post-doctoral scholar in cardiac biology research. He joined Manipal University, Karnataka, as an assistant professor in February 2018.
Bhavani Shankar Sahu
Post doc, University of Minnesota — Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
Bhavani Shankar Sahu did his PhD at IIT Madras 2007-2013 in Cell biology and Molecular Genetics and moved to Cambridge University, UK as a post doc. In 2016 he moved to University of Minnesota to study role of neuro-endocrine proteins in metabolic disease. His research interests are: Cellular trafficking, Metabolic diseases, neuroendocrinology, high accuracy proteomics. He strongly advocates science communication to public and was involved in the Cambridge science festival and Minnesota state fair Science booth. He is starting as Ramalingaswami fellow in fall 2018.
Dr. Rupesh Deshmukh
Ramalingaswami Fellow, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali
Dr. Rupesh Deshmukh did his Ph.D. in the year 2011 from SRTM University, Maharashtra. He has recently received Ramalingaswami Fellowship. Before joining NABI, he was working as a Visiting Professor for four years at University Laval, Quebec, Canada. He did postdoctoral research at Missouri University, USA and at Laval University, Canada. Dr. Deshmukh has expertise with aquaporin transport system in plants and has published over 60 research articles.
Dr Ratna Ghosal
Assistant Professor, Biological and Life Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Gujarat
Dr. Ratna Ghosal did her MSc in Zoology from Kolkata University and a PhD in Ecology from the Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bangalore. She studied endocrine correlates of estrous behaviour in Asian elephants and developed a non-invasive technique based on faecal progesterone metabolite patterns. She then moved to the University of Minnesota to conduct research on invasive fish in the North American ecosystem and was a member of the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center.
Dr. Renu Singh
Scientist, Centre for Food Nanotechnology, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru, Karnataka
Dr. Renu Singh completed her PhD in the field of Biosensors from CSIR-National Physical Laboratory New Delhi, in 2012. She was selected as a JASSO Fellow under the JENESYS Program at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. She was employed as a research scientist for 3.5 years in South Korea at UNIST. Thereafter, she joined as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Minnesota. She joined as a scientist in March 2018 at CSIR-CFTRI Mysuru.
Dr. Arindam Mondal
Assistant Professor, IIT Kharagpur — RNA Virus Research Group
Dr. Arindam Mondal received his PhD from the Department of Biotechnology, University of Calcutta before moving to the United States for postdoctoral research at the University of Virginia and University of Wisconsin, Madison (subsequently promoted to Assistant Scientist). He joined IIT Kharagpur in 2016 and received the prestigious DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellowship at the same time. The Mondal laboratory is interested in understanding the basic molecular mechanism by which RNA viruses hijack the host machinery to facilitate their replication.
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