Department of Biotechnology greets you heartily. Established as one of the major departments of the institute, since its inception in 2012, the department of Biotechnology is involved assiduously in teaching and research. The department of Biotechnology offers two undergraduate (B.Tech. and B.Sc.) and one postgraduate (M.Sc.) programes in Biotechnology.
The department has the doctoral programme in the areas of
1. Disease Biology
2. Protein Biochemistry and protein engineering
3. Bioinformatics
4. Phytochemistry & herbal drug development
5. Plant Tissue Culture
6. Plant Molecular biology
7. Bionanotechnology
8. Environmental microbiology and biotechnology
9. Cancer (viral associated)
10. Metabolic diseases (Diabetes and Metabolic syndrome)
SERB, DST Funded Project titled "Financial Sanction under Teachers Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE)". PI- Dr. Srabani Karmakar. With collaboration with SINP. Total fund: 18.30 lakhs. Duration: 2018-2021.
SERB, DST funded project titled: "High frequency in-vitro propagation of Porteresia coarctata and analysis of polyamine content under salinity stress." PI- Dr. Saurav Bhattacharya. Total Fund- 14 lakhs. Duration- 2019-2022.