Welcome!

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

Applications are invited for one post of Junior Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (JRF/SRF) in a DBT sponsored research project entitled “Structure, function, dynamics and inhibition of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs).” at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati   Applications are invited for one post of Junior Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (JRF/SRF) in a CSIR sponsored research project entitled “A novel process for thermostable gene prospecting from metagenome.” at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati   AICTE-QIP Five Day Workshop on Advances in Biomedical Engineering, Feb 25- March 01, 2015 List of Five (5) Year Publication of Department of Biotechnology (2009-13)