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Director : Prof. P.Manohar
The Life Sciences Division of the Centre has expertise and facilities sharply focused on the theme of single molecular processes at the nanometer scale, and some of the specific topics of investigations include cancer biology, biology of the cardio vascular system, biosensor-based detection/diagnostics, bioinformatics and modeling, etc. Applied Research here has led to Technologies, Products and Patents that are being commercialised. The Information Sciences Division has generated a number of technologies in the areas of Information Extraction, Knowledge Discovery, Indian Language Computing as well as Internet Security, in addition to offering high-end consultancy and training programs in the WLAN/WiFi-WiMax areas. The National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS) funded by the Dept. of I.T., Govt. of India, is a part of this Division. |
Faculty Profile |
| Name and highest qualification | Designation | Expertise |
Aparajita Dey, Ph.D. |
Member
Research Staff |
Biochemistry, Toxicology |
Bharadwaj Kumar, Ph.D. |
Member
Research Staff |
Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning |
Chatterji
S, Ph.D |
Member
Research Staff |
Endothelial
cell function, NOS |
Gajalakshmi P, Ph.D |
Member
Research Staff |
Genetic
loci for diseases, suicide gene therapy |
Gadiyar G.H, Ph.D |
Member
Research Staff |
Mathematics |
Jaffar Ali B.M, Ph.D |
Member
Research Staff |
Single molecule and cell force spectroscopy |
Krishnamurthy K, Ph.D |
Member
Research Staff |
Raman spectroscopy and AFM |
Krishnan C.N, Ph.D |
Program Director |
Signal Processing & Communication |
Padma R, Ph.D |
Member
Research Staff |
Mathematics - Number Theory |
Ramanan S.V, Ph.D |
Wellcome Research Fellow |
Intercellular communication, modeling |
Ramesh Kumar G, Ph.D |
Member
Research Staff |
Bioinformatics |
Ravi Gupta, Ph.D. |
Member
Research Staff |
Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics |
Sethuraman M, M.Tech |
Member
Research Staff |
Network Security |
Sobha. L. Nair, Ph.D |
Member
Research Staff |
Anaphora Resolution, Syntax and Information Extraction |
Srikanth S, Ph.D |
Member
Research Staff |
Wireless Communications, Applied Signal Processing |
List of sponsored projects carried out during 2004-07 |
| Title of the Project |
Agency |
Intercellular
Communication(Patch clamp) |
Wellcome
Trust, U.K |
Setting up of National Resources Centre in FOSS part 1 - HR Development by AU-KBC |
DIT |
Dissecting the Mechanism of Active metabolites of Garlic in the activation of nitric oxide synthase in pulmonary artery endothelial cells under Hypoxia |
DRDO |
Implication of shear stress-medicated production of nitric oxide in the migration of endothelial cells |
CSIR |
Development of an instrument using immunofluorescence based biosensors for the detection of infectious pathogens- Second phase |
DST |
Development of Indian Language to Indian Languge Machine Translation Systems |
DIT |
Development of Cross Lingual Information Accessing (CLIA) system for Indian Languages |
DIT |
Dissecting nitric oxide signalilng pathways of hypoxia induce tissue remodeling in lungs |
LSRB/DRDO |
Bioinfomatics Approach for identification of hypothetical ORF in Bacterial Genome & Hydrogen production pathways |
DIT |
Role of gap junction in the bystander effect in breast cancer cell line |
DBT |
Developing an Integrated Model of vascualr remodeling Kinetic simulation of Nos. Signaling pathways in Nitric oxide regulation and smoth muscle relaxation |
CSIR |
Testing the potential of Organosulfurs as drug to protect lungs from high altitude --- animal tissue models |
DRDO |
Dissecting the molecular mechanism off endothelical nitric oxide synthase translocation |
DST |
Studying the mechanism of cadmium mediated suppresion of nitric oxide production in endothelial cell : implications in endothelial cell biology |
ICMR |
Testing for Tamil 16-bit all character encoding system for Natural lanugage Procesing |
TVU |
Generation of spectral data base on select toxins and their degradation products using raman spectroscopy |
DRDE |
Development of DNA Methylation Detection Kit and Associated Instrumentation for Healthcare Application |
DST |
| Value of Research Projects taken up during 2003 to 2007: |
| Completed Projects | Ongoing Projects |
| No | Value(Rs Lakhs) | No | Value(Rs Lakhs) |
| 15 | 557.59 | 17 | 417.27 |
 Brief Write up of Most Successful Research Projects: While the quality of research papers published is the index of the success of Academic Research, success of application-oriented research at the centre is measured in terms of the Technologies, Products and Patents that it has led to, as well as the extent of their successful commercialisation. In this sense, the following are some of the most successful outcomes from our R&D activities— • i-SecureIT, an internet security trainer platform; commercialised. • Bioask, A semantic search engine for Life Sciences researchers; commercialised. • WebGuard, a solution for web-face defacement attacks; being commercialised. • Flurobact, a rapid low cost pathogen detection system; being commercialised. • Anti-angiogenesis patent; commercialisation being explored. • Information Extraction- Knowledge Discovery Engine; commercialisation being explored. |
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Set up in 1999 with funding from an alumnus Dr. K B Chandrasekhar (USA), the AU-KBC Research Centre operates in the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) mode, and carries out interdisciplinary research across the domains of Information Sciences (Natural Language Processing, Cryptography and Network Security, Wireless Networks) and Life Sciences (Nano-scale Biology, Biosensors, detection/Diagnostics, Bioinformatics). It combines Academic Research leading to publications and theses with IP-oriented R&D work aimed at commercialisation and revenue generation.