Purva

PhD Scholar

Inquisitive and highly motivated graduate student working towards personalized medicine.
Completed M.Tech in Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
With strong background in biotechnology and hands-on experience in molecular biology techniques, my focus is on evaluating epithelial damage in Human Nose Organoid-Air Liquid Interface model.
Besides donning a sports cap and an avid reader, I love to express myself through dance.
Unraveling the complexity of disease progression through organoid models, so as to devise effective diagnostic and treatment methods is what we at Orgamed Lab are aiming for.

Gayathri R.

PhD Scholar

Gayathri is from a biotechnology background and has worked on various innovative projects in the areas of diagnostic technologies, virology and molecular biology. She has received the UGC Post Graduate Scholarship for Single Girl Child and qualified in national-level examinations such as GATE, UGC NET, and DBT-JRF.

Currently, as a Ph.D. scholar in the Orgamed Lab at the Department of Medical Sciences and Technology, IIT Madras, she is dedicated to translational research, her area of interest. Here, she focuses on uncovering the mechanisms of respiratory viral pathogenesis and developing therapeutic solutions using organoid model systems, aiming to integrate research findings and their clinical applications.
She also explores the world beyond the lab, finds balance and joy engaging in extra-curricular activities, and unwinds to the rhythms of good music.

Dr. Sumedha Nitin Prabhu

Post Doctoral Researcher

Dr. Sumedha Nitin Prabhu received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biotechnology from the University of Mumbai, India, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She received a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 2022. Her research and teaching interests include topics like smart Biomedical engineering, cutting-edge teaching and research in Biomed applications, nanomedicine, functionalized biomaterials, smart healthcare miniaturized technologies, and biomedical sensing using MedTech MEMS devices. She enjoys motivating and guiding undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students in cutting-edge biosensing research. Sumedha aims to attract grant money to the Biomed department and collaborate with international academic and industry partners. She is motivated and targeted toward fabricating novel MEMS-based biosensing devices.

Sumedha completed her first postdoc at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and her second postdoc at the University of Cincinnati, USA.

She has published six journal manuscripts and four book chapters with international publishers. She has presented her work at five international IEEE conferences and two international poster competitions. During her Ph.D. candidature, Sumedha received two People’s Choice Awards and a Silver Award. She was also awarded several prizes and two inter-university competitive grants for her work. Sumedha served as a reviewer for 6 IEEE international conferences. She has reviewed over 170 manuscripts and actively serves as a reviewer for 24 international journals from different peer-reviewed publishers: IEEE, MDPI, PriMera, PeerJ, Qeios, and Springer Nature. She is an Associate Editor for PriMera Scientific Engineering Publications and served as an invited special session chair for two international conferences. She served as an invited special session chair for an international conference and also serving as a guest editor for the MDPI Electronics special session entitled “Biomedical Applications of SmartSensors”.