Sanhita Sinharay
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor ( 2021 -present)

Sanhita received her Bachelors from Jadavpur University and Masters in Chemistry from IIT Madras. She received her Ph.D., from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. She joined the National Institutes of Health, NIH, USA, as a post-doctoral fellow at the Clinical Center, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences. Prior to joining IISc, she was a Junior faculty at MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX, USA, in the Department of Cancer Systems Imaging. [CV]
Graduate Students

Pooja Patkulkar
01/2021 - Present
DBT SRF fellow
Integrated M.Sc., Biotechnology, University of Pune (2020)
Thesis topic: Molecular imaging approaches to assess therapeutic outcomes

Ananya Sharma
08/2021 - Present 
Prime Minister's Research Fellow
M.Tech, Biological Engineering,
IIT Gandhinagar (2021)
Thesis topic: Development and translation of nontargeted and targeted photoacoustic imaging agents for diagnostics and theranostics

Arjun S V
08/2022 - Present 
Prime Minister's Research Fellow
Integrated M. Tech, Medical Nanotechnology,
SASTRA Deemed University (2022)
Thesis topic: Evaluation of photoacoustic imaging probes for metabolic disorders

Dr. Roshni P
08/2023 - Present
MD- Ph.D. scholar  
MD Physiology - Christian Medical
College, Vellore (2022)
MBBS - Christian Medical College,
Vellore (2016)
Thesis topic: Correlation between aggressiveness and changes in metabolic signatures in ovarian cancer
Photoacoustic imaging biomarkers in aging brain 

Ankita Mandal
08/2024 - Present
BS-MS (Major in Biological Sciences and Minor in Chemistry), IISER Kolkata (2024)
Thesis topic: Enzyme targeted photoacoustic imaging for efficient diagnosis of triple - negative breast cancer (TNBC)

Sneha Noble
08/2024 - Present
M.Tech - Biomedical Instrumentation and Signal Processing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (2023)
Thesis topic: Evaluation of magnetic resonance-based approaches for accurate early diagnosis in IPF

Thuria Hasan
08/2024 - Present
M.Tech - Biomedical Engineering,
IIT Kharagpur, India

Mandisa De
08/2025 - Present
B.Tech - Biotechnology, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata (2025)
Thesis topic: Early detection in abdominal cancer with photoacoustic imaging approaches
Research Trainees

Rashida Ginwala
08/2025 - Present
B.Sc. (Physics/ Chemistry/ Mathematics), Government Holkar Science College, Indore
M.Sc. Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
