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The Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) was established in November 2002 to contribute the fascinating and emerging area of biological sciences. It has both undergraduate (B.Tech.) and postgraduate (M.Tech. and Ph.D.) academic programmes. The Department is unique in North-Eastern India, imparting quality education and providing an excellent research environment through its ongoing programmes. It imparts training for students to make them competent, motivated engineers and scientists. The department has 32 faculty members from diverse streams and specializations. The department has developed extensive research facility and infrastructure to support the ongoing teaching and research initiatives.

The major thrust of the department includes biochemical engineering, tissue engineering, plant biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, computational biology, cancer biology, infectious diseases and proteomics. The department has initiated efforts to establish advanced research laboratories in all the thrust areas. Apart from fundamental research, the department aims to meet the targeted demands to cater the requirements of biotechnology based industries.

Announcements

SELECTED CANDIDATES FOR THE TE-QIP SHORT TERM COURSE ON “THEORITICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF CANCER RESEARCH” Feb 4th -8th, 2015 Call for Walk-in-Interview for JRF position Short Term Course on "Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Cancer Research", Feb 4-8, 2015 AICTE-QIP Five Day Workshop on Advances in Biomedical Engineering, Feb 25- March 01, 2015 Flow Cytometry Data Analysis Workshop, 23rd to 24th January, 2015 List of Participants List of Five (5) Year Publication of Department of Biotechnology (2009-13)