Dr Sreeja Kumari Dhanya, postdoctoral fellow in Dr Bhavana Muralidharan’s lab at inStem has been awarded the prestigious MK Bhan-Young Research Fellowship to study the “Role of chromatin modifiers in regulating neocortical development and its neuropathological role in autism spectrum disorder”. Chromatin and epigenetic regulators play a critical role in cerebral cortical development and aberrations […]

DBT-inStem PhD Program inStem offers an exciting Ph. D. program designed to train its research students in the fundamentals and translational applications of stem cell science. This program comprises features that will position its students to make internationally recognized discoveries and be competitive for positions in this field anywhere in the world. The backbone of […]

Why are cancers so difficult to treat despite the development of potent chemotherapeutic interventions? The persistence of cancers arises from the ability of tumours to evade conventional anti-cancer therapies. This characteristic of cancers is attributed to the presence of cancer stem cells within a tumour. Cancerous tumours contain several types of cells, a small subset […]

Relieving cellular tension: a switch to promote wound healing How does the skin heal wounds? The wound healing process involves a regulated sequence of biochemical events which is set into motion when there is an injury.What signals the skin to turn on wound healing response when it becomes injured? Understanding the signals responsible for initiating […]