Ongoing Research Projects
The Schools & Research Centres actively engage with various teaching departments and encourage interdisciplinary research. All research projects are funded by extramural agencies like DST, DBT, ISRO, DRDO, DRDL, AYUSH, NMEICT, etc., and corporates organisations like TCS, Brakes TVS Group, Accenture, etc. The various ongoing research projects are given below:
Name of the Projects | Funding Agency |
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Establishing a Centre of Excellence in National Facility for the Scientific Manufacturing of Ayurvedic & Siddha-Rasa Aushadhies and Bhasmas |
AYUSH |
PG Programme in Nano Science & Technology Programme |
DST |
Development of a theranostic tool for early detection and treatment of pancreatic cancer |
DST |
Phase-I Clinical Trials on Stem Cells based Nanofibrous Scaffolds for Wound Healing |
DST |
Development of Epigenetic platform for Cancer Biomarker discovery |
TCS |
High Voltage Engineering – FIST |
DST |
Isolation & production of biofilm mediated therapeutic molecules from natural sources – FIST |
DST |
Magnetic nanoparticles – FIST |
DST |
Electrochemical Microscope based on Nanoscopic Probes for Non-invasive Intracellular Reactivity Images of Living Cells |
DBT |
Wireless sensors – FIST |
DST |
Development and characterization of novel scaffolds for the regeneration of liver & esophagus |
ICMR |
Studying the differential role of Hydrogen Sulfide as gasotransmitter in the inter fibrillar and sub sarcolemmal mitochondrial activity of rat hearts during ischemia reperfusion |
DST |
Cloud Computing – FIST |
DST |
Novel drug discovery from newly isolated Streptomyces sp IF5: Mitigation of multi drug resistant bacteria |
DST |
Mechanistic Anti apoptotic behavioral study of hyper thermally over expressed small heat shock protein HSP 27 in prevention of Cytochrome C triggered intrinsic cell death by doxorubicin in rat heart Cardiomyocytes |
DST |
Development and evaluation of nanofibre based myocardial patch for functional regeneration |
ICMR |
Thin Vanadium Oxide and nickel Oxide Films for Micro Bolometer |
DRDO |
Characterization of gatCAB operon from Mycobacterium to evaluate its role in prevention of phagosome - lysosome fusion |
DBT |
Sodium thiosulphate as novel drug for ischemia reperfusion injury in an isolated rat heart model |
ICMR |
Development of a targeted stealth nanocarrier for dual delivery in the treatment of Oral Cancer |
DST Orchid |
Influence of various pre-treatment methods on lignocellulosic biomass for enhanced biohydrogen production by dark fermentation |
DST |
Impact of Coumaric acid on GRP78, a molecular chaperone linking tumour microenvironment and cancer hallmarks in colon carcinogenesis |
DST |
Quorum Sensing Inhibitor from Melia dubia: An Interceptor for Urinary tract infections during pregnancy |
DST |
High energy super capacitors assembled with graphene-based electrode materials |
DST |
Heterocyclic hybrids: Isolation, synthesis, structure and bio-activity evaluation |
DST |
Indo - Swedish (DST - INNOVA) Assessment of Food Quality: An Embedded Approach |
DST / INNOVA |
Imaging Guided Therapy for metastatic cancer using theranostic polymeric micelles |
DST |
Green-cooperative catalysis mediated by NHC & non toxic transition metals for aerobic oxidative transformations |
DST |
Development of novel palladium-catalyzed domino reactions: Synthesis of biologically relevant compounds involving Pd |
DST |
Non-invasive in vitro chemicals screening of renal calculi using intrinsic molecular vibrations |
DST |
Studies on the mechanism of anti-inflammatory action of tumor necrosis factor alpha in relation to autoimmune disease |
DST |
Slope stability analysis on 6.5 km ghat section (Gudalur Landslide Project) |
DST |
Structure-activity relationship study with a novel library compounds derived from confined isoxyl skeleton: Generation of new lead molecules against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) |
DST |
New Boron-Dipyrrin based solid state Fluorescent Optoelectronic Materials: Nanofabrication and device Studies |
DST |
Structural studies on diseases triggering mutations of superoxide (SOD1), located far from the active site and dimer interface |
DST |
Screening of therapeutically important serine protease inhibitors from marine actinomycetes |
DST |
Synthesis and Properties of Hyperbranched Poly(Amideimide)s and Poly(Esterimide)s |
CSIR |
Hyperbranched polyamine-ruthenium arene conjugates: A versatile approach in ruthenium anticancer drug therapy |
DST |
Mining for peptides & glycan molecules in marine actinomycetes having antifungal activity against Cryptococcus neoformans affecting immune-compromised individuals |
DST |
Investigating the electrostatic mechanism of Histone tail modifications on a chromatin array through molecular modeling and dynamics |
DBT |
Investigation of oxidative and nitrosative stress in the folding and assembly of alpha helical transmembrane protein |
DST |
Bioremediation of oil contaminated waste water using bacterial biofilm |
DST |
Can Trioxanes abrogate Hepatocellular carcinoma? |
DST |
Biocompatibility of surface modified and unmodified graphene oxide nanoparticles |
DST |
Systematic quantification of stress regulatory networks in fission yeast S-pombe experiments and mathematical modelling |
DST |
Exposure modeling of nanoparticles in the environment and the development of in vitro approaches to determine it's toxic effects |
DST |
Fabrication of Sensor Array for the Quality Assessment of Milk, Meat and Fish |
DST |
The possible role of cell wall invertase cis-elements modulating therapeutic secondary metabolite levels in Catharanthus roseus |
DST |
Targeting cell collectives of bacteria by different approaches |
DST |
Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube / nanofibre – polymer composites for electrophoretic separation of proteins |
DST |
Development of techniques for processing radiographic images for automated detection of defects |
BRNS |
Virtual Lab on Rodent Histology |
NMEICT |
A metagenomic approach to investigate the antibiofilm properties of marine bacterial deoxyribonucleases (Dnases) |
DST |
Theme based Herbal Garden |
AYUSH |
Utilization of cassava bagasse as a substrate for the production of microbial exopolysaccharides: Xanthan and Curdlan |
DBT |
Investigating the effect of charge distribution on DNA conformation and its implications for protein-DNA specificity |
DST |
Protein contact prediction using Bayesian networks |
DST |
Standardization of HIV / AIDS Siddha Formulation (SOPs) |
ICMR |
Virtual Lab on Vertinaery Gynecology |
NMEICT |
Structural Studies on aggregation of peptides in relevance to chemical evolution and origin of life |
DST |
Role of early growth response-1 (Egr-1) gene in fetal vascular function upon exposure to high glucose-Unraveling mechanistic role of maternal glycemic load to fetal vascular development |
DST |
Virtual Lab on Vertinaery Gynecology (Simulation) |
NMEICT |
Resolving the complexity in Cinnamomum of the Western Ghats through molecular, chemical and Pharmacognostical approaches |
DSR |
Studies on Validation and Standardization of Selected Herbal Adaptogens |
DRDO |
Design and Development of a Wheel Chair based Assistive Robotic System with Self Transfer Facility |
DST |
Virtual Lab on Rodent Anatomy |
NMEICT |
Deciphering the genetic network of five novel loci linked with cardio-vascular disease (CVD) |
DST |
Expert Systems for Infiltration Control |
DRDO |
Expert Systems Development for TBM Target maneuver Estimation |
DRDL |
Modulational instability induced super continuum generation in nonlinear photonic crystal fibre |
DST |
Panchromatic Images, Image segmentation using Level sets, active contour models |
ISRO |
Centre for Rural Development Studies |
SASTRA |
Human Resource Development for Health Research |
ICMR & MHRD |
Intelligent Control and fault detection using Sensor Fusion Techniques |
DRDO |
A complete study of propagating spin waves in magnonic crystals by the excitation of spin torque nano-oscillators |
DST |
A novel methodology for the identification of newer elliptic curves that are best suited to cryptosystems |
CARS |
Development of a Spatial Decision Support System for slopes along Traffic Corridors-Along Palani to Kodaikanal Hills road |
DST |
Development of Terrain Contour Mapping (TERCOM) Algorithms |
DRDL |
Wavelet Solutions for Partial Differential Equations and Applications |
DRDO |
Aakash Pushtak |
MHRD |
Philosophy in Professional Courses |
ICPR |
Kaleesuwari-Herbal Hair Oil Project |
Kalees-uwari |
Effect of cooking oils on insulin sensitivity – A pilot study |
MDRF |