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Ajay Tijore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ajay received a Doctoral degree from NTU Singapore where he worked in stem cell mechanobiology field. He then worked with Prof. Michael Sheetz at Mechanobiology Institute, NUS as a postdoc. There, he found that cancer cells were vulnerable to mechanical forces and selectively killed by application of external mechanical forces. In Nov 2021, he joined the Department of Bioengineering where his lab works on investigating the effect of mechanical forces on cancer cell growth and in regulating stem cell fate using custom-built microfluidic devices and micro/nanoscale biomaterials.
Current Members
Alka Kumari
PhD student (Jan 2022)
M.Sc (JNU, New Delhi)
Manasa Veena
PhD student (Aug 2022)
M.Sc (IIT Roorkee)
Rashmita Luha
PhD student (Jan 2023)
M.Sc (Central University of Punjab)
Akshay Kumar
Project Associate
Ketan Kulkarni
Project Associate
M.Sc (Pune University)
Arka Roy Choudhury
M. Tech student (2023)
Aditi Joshi
M. Tech student (2023)
Lab News
Nov 2023
Ajay awarded with 'RSC Young Researcher Award' at BioTex conference, New Delhi. Congrats!
Nov 2023
First paper (review) from lab was published in ACS Omega. Congrats Team! https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsomega.3c06451
Oct 2023
Manasa selected for prestigious PMRF award. Well done. Congrats!
Oct 2023
Alka completed PhD comprehensive exam. Well done. Congrats!
Sept 2023
Ajay gave research talk at annual MBI conference, Singapore.
Aug 2023
Ajay awarded with R I Mazumdar Young Investigator Award. Congrats!
Aug 2023
Arka and Aditi, BE MTech students joined the lab. Welcome.
Aug 2023
Abhishek joined the 'ETH Zurich' as a PhD student. Congrats!
June 2023
Ketan joined the lab as a Project Associate. Welcome.
Jan 2023
Rashmita joined the lab as a third PhD student. Welcome.
Aug 2022
Ajay awarded with 'SERB-Strart up Research Grant'. Congrats!
Aug 2022
Abhishek joined the lab as Project Associate. Welcome.
Aug 2022
Manasa Veena joined the lab as a second PhD student. Welcome.
Aug 2022
Srinivas joined the 'MBI, Singapore' as a PhD student . Congrats!
May 2022
Mechanobiologics Lab performed its first experiment. Congrats Team!
Feb 2022
Srinivas joined the Lab as a Project Associate. Welcome.
Jan 2022
Alka joined the lab as a first PhD student. Welcome.
Alumni
Name Position Year Current Position
Srinivas Prabhu Project associate 2022 PhD student @MBI, NUS Singapore
Abhishek Goswami Project associate 2022 PhD student @ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Gowri Sajeev Research intern 2023
Hetarth Bhatt Research intern 2023 Bachelor student @IIT, Goa
Dhruba Dey Summer Intern 2022 Bachelor student @IISc, Bangalore
Megaswana Guruprasad Summer Intern 2022 Bachelor student @VIT, Vellore
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