
Our People

Dr. Sivaprakash Ramalingam
Principal Investigator
Dr. Sivaprakash Ramalingam obtained his PhD from the University of Madras. He received his Post-doctoral training in genome-editing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He was a recipient of the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF) Post-doctoral Fellowship and worked at JHU. He served as a Principal Scientist at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, before joining the BSBE department at IIT Kanpur.

Priya Thakur
PhD Student

Pragya Gupta
PhD Student

Mehwish Nafiz
PhD Student

Vinodh Sarvanakumar
Project Associate

Aditya Ramdas Iyer
PhD student
Previous Members

Sangam Giri Goswami
PhD Student
Sangam joined Dr. Sivaprakash Ramalingam’s laboratory after earning his Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. His research focused on targeted genome editing of patient-derived CD34+ HSPCs to reverse the disease phenotypes of sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Gordon Ginder’s lab at Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.

Nupur Bhargava
PhD Student
Nupur completed her undergraduate studies at Miranda House, University of Delhi, before pursuing a postgraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences at King’s College London. Since early 2017, she has been working on the generation and characterization of disease-specific iPSCs, as well as recapitulating beneficial mutations in disease model systems for the treatment of beta-hemoglobinopathies

Dr. Neelam Lohani
Postdoctoral Fellow

Shashank Jaitly
Research Fellow
Shashank did his bachelor’s in Biochemistry from Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi and his Masters in Biotechnology (M.Sc.) from Madurai Kamaraj University. His research interest lies in understanding the molecular aspects of reprogramming and using gene editing for therapeutic purposes. He is currently doing PhD from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Medicine, Gesellschaft, Germany. In his free time he likes to follow Formula 1 and geopolitical news.

Thulasi Priyadharshini
Research Fellow
Thulasi joined the lab as a research fellow in May 2019. Prior to that, she completed her Bachelor’s in Biotechnology (B.Tech) at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Anna University in 2016 and Master’s in Biotechnology (M.Tech) at PSG College of Technology, Anna University in 2018. She was working on generating an adoptive CAR-T cell platform using iPScs and developing CRISPR based diagnostics for Beta Thalasemmia. In her free time, Thulasi likes to play badminton and read books.

Narendra Varma
Research Fellow
