Shantanu Pradhan

Here is our updated database of grants for early careers researchers in all fields. It goes way beyond traditional NIH and NSF funding opportunities. We list 428 types of grants. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

I am delighted to be able to share that our latest paper arising from a project co-led by @DrSarahBoyle and me is now out in the world, published in AAAS Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc….

Transient cytoskeletal anisotropy encodes short-term mechanical memory biorxiv.org/content/10.648… #biorxiv_biophys

Excited to share our latest work in @BiophysJ showing how hypoxia reshapes nuclear mechanics and nuclear envelope architecture, enabling enhanced cell migration and invasion. cell.com/biophysj/fullt… @abhijit_MLab

How to write a hypothesis

🧠 Faculty Position in Neuroscience Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras Applications are invited from researchers with expertise in neuronal circuit function and behaviour, using animal models. 🔗 Apply: facapp.iitm.ac.in #FacultyRecruitment #Neuroscience #IITMadras

Link (Rolling advt.): facapp.iitm.ac.in Areas: Experimental Cancer Biology, Biomaterials Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Downstream Processing, Bioprocess Modelling, Systems Neuroscience, Super-resolution Imaging

IIT Madras Department of Biotechnology is actively looking for faculty candidates in the following areas of research. We encourage you to apply and join a vibrant growing community of faculty researchers engaged in active cutting-edge science!

Do apply if you are interested!

Exciting news for the India BioImaging community! 🔬 An article on India BioImaging (IBI) titled “Building the India Bioimaging Community” has been published in Microscopy and Analysis @WileyAnalytical (Issue 2/2026, pp. 20–23). Read it here: analyticalscience.wiley.com/content/magazi… #IBI

The sky is the limit in bioengineering, just like an airplane's black box, this newly synthetic protein logs a timeline of biological signals within a single cell so that we can reconstruct the cell's history after the fact. this is completely surreal. note that it "minimally impacts neuronal function" as all new technology it will take a while before we discover how bad neuronal function is affected and in which condition, but pretty incredible stuff.

IIT Madras Dept. of Biotechnology is organizing a 3-day Workshop on Advanced Bioimaging from May 18-20, targeted for PhD scholars, postdocs, and early career researchers. Deadline to submit abstract: March 31. Apply soon! Details: sites.google.com/smail.iitm.ac.…

1 in 4 Indian breast cancer patients may carry an inherited genetic risk variant — and most of these lie beyond the widely tested BRCA genes. A landmark study by @iitmadras and @karkinoshealth, in collaboration with Kumaran Hospital and Chennai Breast Centre, has revealed critical insights from one of India’s largest germline breast cancer datasets (479 patients). The study published in BMC Cancer and now part of the Bharat Cancer Genome Atlas, shows that 24.6% carried pathogenic variants, but only 8.35% were in BRCA1/2, while 67% of positive findings were in non-BRCA genes such as MLH1, TP53, NF1 and RB1. Researchers also identified India-specific variants, RECQL population differences, and clinically significant DPYD variants linked to chemotherapy toxicity (impacting drugs like 5-FU and capecitabine). The message is clear: India urgently needs multi-gene panel testing, ancestry-specific variant databases, pharmacogenomic screening, and precision oncology guidelines tailored to its population. This study lays the groundwork for exactly that. Find the full study here: doi.org/10.1186/s12885…. [IIT Madras, Karkinos Healthcare, Breast Cancer, datasets, chemotherapy, multi-gene testing, oncology]

If someone told me a semiconductor shipment was late because it was the wrong phase of the moon, I would not have believed them before reading this paragraph!

📢 Regional Training Programs – 2026 🔬 North-East Chapter 📍 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati @IITGuwahati 🗓 June 8–12, 2026 📝 Application Deadline: April 15, 2026 🔗 indiabioimaging.org/about-1-2 #MicroscopyTraining #ImageAnalysis #ResearchCapacity #Bioimaging

🔬 Western Chapter 📍 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune @IISERPune 🗓 July 6–10, 2026 📝 Application Deadline: April 15, 2026 🔗 microscopy.iiserpune.co.in/copy-of-micros… Join us in strengthening microscopy and image analysis expertise across India. #IndiaBioImaging

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IIT Madras, Dept. of Biotechnology is organizing Advanced Bioimaging Workshop from May 18-20, 2026 with target participants from PhD, Masters, Postdocs and staff scientists. Seats are limited. Submit abstract soon by March 31. sites.google.com/smail.iitm.ac.…

@iitmbt @iitmadras

Happy to announce the Advanced Bioimaging Workshop to be held in Dept. of Biotechnology, IIT Madras from May 18-20, 2026. Apply soon!