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Prof. Ashis Kumar Das

Senior Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Malaria, Molecular Parasitology
Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Sponsored Projects:

Ongoing/Approved Project(s):

  • Title: Anti-sense, Sense and Epigenetics in Severe Malaria
    Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research
    Status: Ongoing
    Co-I: Dr. Syamantak Majumder (BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus)
    Co-PI(s): Prof. Sanjay Kochar (Sardar Patel Medical College & Hospital, Bikaner)
    Dr. Dinesh Gupta (International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Delhi)

  • Title: 28S Ribosomal RNA Capture Assay for the Sensitive Detection of Plasmodium falciparum
             and Plasmodium vivax
    Funding Agency: Malaria Elimination Research Alliance, India
    Status: Ongoing
    Co-PI(s): Prof. Sunil Bhand (BITS Pilani, Goa Campus)
                    Prof. Sanket Goel (BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)
                    Prof. Arunansu Talukdar (Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata)

  • Title: Exosome Cargo in Severe Malaria Disease: Prognostic or Diagnostic Markers for Severe
             Disease or Pathogen Detection
    Funding Agency: BITS BioCyTiH Foundation, India
    Status: Ongoing
    Co-PI(s): Prof. Shilpi Garg (BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus)
                    Prof. Anupama Mittal (BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus)

  • Title: DBT-BUILDER - Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus Interdisciplinary Life Science Programme for Advanced Research and Education in Epigenetics and Genome Editing
    Role: Coordinator
    Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, India
    Status: Ongoing

  • Title: Understanding vir Genes: Potential Mediators of Cyto-adherence in Severe Malaria from
             Plasmodium vivax
    Funding Agency: Indian Council of Medical Research
    Status: Technically Approved
    Co-PI(s): Prof. Shilpi Garg (BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus)
                    Dr. Balakumaran Chandrasekar (BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus)

Projects (PI): (Completed)

  • Title: Development of a Comprehensive Diagnostic System for P. falciparumP. vivax and P. malariae and its evaluation
    Funding Agency: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India.
  • Title: Prokaryotic Vector Design using Cryptic Plasmids from Leuconostoc sp.Lactococcus species and Cyanobacteria
    Funding Agency: Dabur Research Foundation, India
  • Title: Cloning and Characterization of the regions of the Apicoplast genome from Plasmodium vivax
    Funding Agency: University Grants Commission, India
  • Title: A Systems Biology approach towards understanding Severe Malaria with special reference to the Transcriptome and Proteome of the Parasite and the Host
    Funding Agency: Department of Biotechnology, India
    Co-PI(s): Prof. Utpal Tatu (Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore)
                    Prof. Dhanpat Kochar/Prof. Sanjay Kochar (Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner)