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MIT School of Bio engineering Sciences and Research, Pune Facilities Details

MIT School of Bioengineering Sciences and Research (MIT SBOER), Pune, is a part of MIT Art, Design and Technology (MIT ADT) University. The school employs a team of highly qualified faculty specializing in bioengineering disciplines like Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering. These educators combine advanced degrees from prestigious institutions with substantial research and industry exposure to deliver cutting-edge instruction.

Faculty Qualifications

  • Most faculty hold PhDs from renowned universities such as Savitribai Phule Pune University, IIT Madras, National Centre for Cell Sciences (NCCS) Pune, VNIT Nagpur, and international bodies like Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France.
  • Qualifications often include post-doctoral experience, with specializations in virology, drug discovery, bioinformatics, molecular modeling, biochemistry, and pathophysiology.
  • Many serve as reviewers for platforms like MANAV, members of Board of Studies (BoS), Institutional Ethics Committees (IEC), and Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBSC).

Industry and Research Experience

  • Faculty bring 6-15 years of combined industry, research, and academic expertise, including guiding PhD candidates (some ongoing) and MTech theses (up to 10 completed).
  • Notable achievements encompass publications (5+ per faculty in some cases), workshops, DBT JRF/SRF awards, and roles in drug design, next-generation sequencing, and systems biology.
  • Industry ties facilitate practical training, with profiles highlighting collaborations at BARC, DRDO's DIAT, and SRM University.

Student-Faculty Ratio

  • The institute maintains a favorable student-faculty ratio of approximately 15:1, enabling personalized mentoring, hands-on lab sessions, and research supervision.
  • This supports small-group interactions in specialized labs for tissue engineering and computational biology.

Teaching Methods

  • Instruction blends traditional lectures with innovative approaches like project-based learning, industry workshops, hackathons, and simulation tools for molecular modeling.
  • Faculty integrate real-world case studies from virology and biotech R&D, supplemented by guest lectures and LinkedIn-networked industry insights.
  • Emphasis falls on skill-building through mandatory internships and interdisciplinary projects.

Key Faculty Members

Name

Designation

Key Qualifications & Specialization

Experience Highlights

Dr. K. V. Swamy

Associate Professor

PhD; Biochemistry focus

15+ years research/academic; BoS member

Dr. Nayana Patil

Associate Professor

PhD (UoP-BARC), Postdoc (SPPU)

15 years; PhD guidance

Dr. Pranav D. Pathak

Associate Professor

PhD (VNIT Nagpur), MTech Chemical Engg

11 years industry/research/academic

Dr. Aruna Sivaram

Associate Professor

PhD (National Institute of Virology)

10 years post-PhD; Virology, Drug discovery; 5 publications

Dr. Pooja Rana

Associate Professor

PhD; Bioinformatics

Drug design, NGS; 13 years; 1 PhD ongoing, 10 MTech theses

Dr. Chandrakant Tagad

Associate Professor

PhD Biochemistry (SPPU)

9 years research/academic

Dr. Kedar R. Nirmala

Assistant Professor

PhD (NCCS Pune)

6 years; 1 PhD ongoing

Dr. Madhura Chandrasekhar

Assistant Professor

PhD (Univ of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad)

7 years research, 3.5 years academic

Dr. Sanket P. Bapat

Assistant Professor

PhD

Research-focused

Dr. Preetam Bala

Assistant Professor

PhD (DIAT DRDO), MTech (SRM)

9 years; Computational biology

Dr. Madhumita Tarai

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Madras, Chemistry)

9 years research/academic

Prof. Madhavi Bhongale

Assistant Professor

MTech/PhD equivalent

Teaching emphasis

Prof. Harshwardhan Medhekar

Assistant Professor

Advanced degree

Academic training

Dr. Neeraj Omprakash Maheshwari

Assistant Professor

PhD (France)

4 years research, 1 year academic

Prof. Vinayak Ghaisas

Professor

Senior expertise

Department leadership

Dr. Renu Vyas

Faculty

Specialization in bioengineering

Research publications

 

 

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