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Life sciences are study of composition, structure and function of living forms and their interaction with environment. The scope of life sciences is wide and is one of the most promising areas of research. Life sciences enhance our understanding of nature of life, and provide new insights to diverse areas in biology such as disease pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and cure. The acquired knowledge in Life sciences also helps us to combat various environmental issues, finding out ways of sustainable management, and biodiversity conservation, to name a few. Department of Life sciences offers undergraduate and or postgraduate courses in various disciplines such as Biotechnology, Microbiology, Food Science and Technology, Botany and Zoology.

Vision

To acquire and impart knowledge of biology and bio-techniques so as to build capacity for addressing current global challenges

Mission

To train and transform students into thinking researchers/ professionals who are able to integrate theoretical knowledge and analytical skills in diverse areas of Biotechnology.
To make students and faculties updated with advance techniques and to introduce the students to dynamic environment of bioscience
To conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research.
To introduce various skill development courses thereby enhancing the employability and providing opportunities for industry-academia collaboration.

Awards & Achievements

Department of life sciences has made significant contributions to the field, with its faculty members published more than 400 articles in national and internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals indexed in SCI and Scopus. These publications have appeared in esteemed journals such as Bioresource Technology, Journal of Cleaner Production, Materials Science and Engineering C, Nanomedicine, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, Indian Journal of Microbiology, Bioresource Technology Reports, European Journal of Pharmacology, Biomedical Materials and Devices, and many others. Additionally, most of the faculty members have also authored over 89 book chapters, further showcasing their expertise and knowledge in their respective fields. 3 of our faculty members, Dr. Piyush Kumar Gupta, Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Dr. Soumya Pandit, have been listed in the list of world’s top 2 % scientists.

Over the last five years, the Department of Life Science has awarded ~23 Doctoral Degrees reflecting its strong commitment to research excellence and innovation.

Prof. Saleem Siddiqui, Dr. Sujata Pandit Sharma and Nikita Singh (Ph.D Student) were granted a patent titled “Biodegradable polymeric film from orange pomace and method for preparation thereof”
Dr. Santosh Kumar Mishra and Dr. Ashwini Kumar have been selected as an Editorial board member for the prestigious journal Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
Dr. Piyush Kumar Gupta has been selected as the fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering
Dr. Santosh Kumar Mishra joined as a reviewer in Folia Microbiology (Springer), Plant Biotechnology (Wiley), Archives of Microbiology (Springer)
Dr. Soumi Sadhu joined as a reviewer for Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (Springer), Journal of Clinical Ultrasound (Wiley)
Dr. Nupur joined as an editorial board member of International Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Dr. Ashwini Kumar joined as the Chief Executive Editor of a new journal Exon. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Endocrinology, and as reviewers for Frontiers in Pharmacology (Frontiers), and Redox Biology (Taylor and Francis)
Prof. Sibaram Khara, honourable vice chancellor of Sharda University congratulated Dr. Piyush Kumar Gupta for publishing a review article in Molecular Cancer, BMC (IF = 41.444) a top peer-reviewed international journal of cancer research. He also applauded Dr. Soumya Pandit for publishing a textbook in CRC publisher.
Prof. Sibaram Khara, honourable vice chancellor of Sharda University congratulated Dr. Piyush Kumar Gupta for getting a Start-up Research Grant of a total cost of 24 lakhs from the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
Dr. Kanu Priya, Associate Professor, Department of Life Science has won the best Women Scientist Research award by Springer Nature in Oct, 2025. This was the initiative by the Ministry of Education and Springer Nature as a part of Her Research, Our Future to recognise the outstanding contribution to research and innovation. She has also bestowed with the prestigious SERB (Science & Engineering Research Board) International travel grant to present her research work in International conference, South Korea.
Dr. Smita Jain, Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science has won the best Women Scientist Research award at ANRF sponsored International Conference on ‘Recent Innovations in Cellular and Molecular Biology: Emerging Insights and Applications’ organized by Department of Botany, Jai Vyas Narain University, Jodhpur, December 2025. She has presented her work on Role of atropine in restoration of neurotransmitter imbalance after xenobiotic insult.
Dr Smita Jain has recently co-authored a textbook of “Medicinal Chemistry-III” published by Shaswat Publications (ISBN: 978-93-6087-151-2) in 2025.This book focuses on the intricate science of designing and developing therapeutic agents which can potentially interact with the biological macromolecules and can be examined for its role in disease prevention and treatment.
Mr. Abhinav Nair, Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science received the Best Oral Award for oral presentation entitled “In Silico Analysis of Secretory Biomarkers For Early Glioblastoma Detection” in the Two Days International Conference on Pharma and Allied Sciences in the Age of AI: Innovations and IPR Strategies (PASAI-2026) presented on April 27th 2026.
Dr Soumya Pandit, Associate Professor, Department of Life science, SSBT is honored to be listed among top 2% scientists worldwide for consecutive 3 years (2023,2024,2025) (Stanford University report published by Elsevier on 4th October 2023). He is also designated as ‘Adjunct Professor’ at Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, East Java, Indonesia and ‘Honorary Professor’ at the Department of Metallurgy, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has delivered invited lectures at various prestigious institutes such as NITs and IIT Kharagpur nationally as well as on international platforms as well. He has been an invited reviewer many reputed Scopus indexed peer reviewed journals of high impact factor.
Dr. Subhabrata Kar, Associate Professor, Department of Life Science was awarded the prestigious American Chemical Society (ACS) Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2025 International Conference on Current Advances in Drug Design & Translational Science (CADDTS), organized by the Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi held during February 26th – 28th, 2025. This award recognizes his DBT-funded research focusing on rational drug discovery and development of nanoparticles as cancer therapeutics.

Seminars & Workshops

The Department of Life Science, Sharda School of Bioscience and Technology, Sharda University successfully hosted an ANRF-sponsored three-day international conference on Sustainable Biotechnology for Viksit Bharat, bringing together leading global and national experts to foster innovation, collaboration, and knowledge exchange in advancing biotechnology-driven solutions for Viksit Bharat 2047.
DST-SERB sponsored Karyashala program on “Development and characterization of Bionanomaterials for drug delivery and Tissue engineering” (27-05-2024-7 days).
DBT Sponsered 2 days National symposium on “Next generation drug delivery systems” (NGDDS-2024) (26-27 Dec, 2024).
Two-day National cum symposium cum workshop on “Green Nanomedicine”. (22-23 Dec, 2025).
Two-days National workshop on “Cell imaging & sorting”.
Guest lecture by Dr. Anita Grover, Former Acting Director, National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, New Delhi on 24 th January 2025
Centre for Development of Biomaterials and Department of Life Sciences organized National symposium on “Next-Generation Drug Delivery System” on 26-27 December 2024.
Department of Life Sciences, in association with Association of Microbiologists of India, organized a week-long Faculty Development Program on “Subject-Specific Benchmarking as a Tool for Outcome-Based Teaching and Learning” in August 2024
Department of Life Sciences, SSBSR, organized National Conference on Contemporary Advances in Interdisciplinary Sciences (NCCAIS-2024)” from 4th April 2024 to 6th April 2024.
Department of Life Sciences organized two days workshop on “Good Laboratory Practice and Research Ethics” in June 2024 for the internal research scholars.
Department of Life Sciences organized E-waste awareness program in collaboration with inclusive recycling foundation.
Hands-on session for undergraduate students were organized for safe and effective handling of e-waste in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh in collaboration with E[CO] Work company and Sharda Welfare Foundation on April 26, 2023.
The Intellectual Property Office of India hosted an online training programme for IP awareness as part of the "National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission", on April 15, 2023.
One day symposium organized on “Cancer Awareness Program” on the occasion of World Cancer Day on February 04, 2023.
Sports Event organized for under graduate students on the occasion of National Youth Day at the Sharda University, January 12, 2023.
Faculty Development program on "Green Technology and Approaches for Waste Valorization” held on 13 -18 June 2022.
Women Training on “Investor awareness program”, April 10, 2021
To sensitize people on the challenges faced by a woman and steps taken to empower them. March 8, 2021.
Celebration of "World Wildlife Day" and to acquaint the students with ongoing research on endangered animal species, March 3, 2021.
3 days symposium cum training workshop on “Resilience pathways for natural and manmade disasters”, February 22-24, 2021.
Workshop on "Laboratory Practices and Ethics", February 8-12, 2021.
Event to showcase artistic talents was conducted in an online mode (on google meet) for ease of the participants in this pandemic situation, February 6, 2021.
Talk by Dr Shweta Singh, Founder and CEO of Founder and CEO Ennoble IP on the topic of the "how ip boost research and innovation”, February 2, 2021.
A webinar was conducted to create awareness of disease Leprosy on “World Leprosy Day”, January 31, 2021
Debate Competition, on the occasion of International Day of Education, on the topic of “The New Education Policy”, January 25, 2021.
Workshop on “Innovative Research Sensitization; Knowledge Consolidation on National and International Research Funding Organizations”, January 16, 2021.
5 days National Workshop cum e-FDP on “Transformation of Food Processing from Lab to Industries”, October 12-16, 2020.
Webinar on Gender Sensitization: An Inclusive Philosophy, September 29, 2020.
Webinar on “Preparation of Competitive Entrance Exams for M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes”, September 2-4, 2020.
E-Faculty Development Program cum Training Workshop on ‘’Environment, Water and Disaster Risk, July 13-17, 2020.
E-FDP cum workshop on “Waste to Bio-energy”, June 28-July 4, 2020.

Infrastructure

Research & Publications

Patents: Faculties of Department of Life Science, SSBT has published and/or granted more than 60 patents in last five years.
Research Papers and Book chapters: In last five years, more than 250 research papers have been published by our faculties and scholars in peer reviewed journals of high repute. More than 80 book chapters have also been published by our faculties and students. This demonstrates our incredible vision and determination to achieve excellence in scientific domains.
Projects

S.No	Title of Project	Funded by	Project tenure	Start year	Project Budget	Principal Investigator	Co-PI’s	Status-Completed/ Ongoing
1	Impact of Non-Thermal Cold Plasma on safe storage and fortification of iron in Chick Pea Seeds	Sharda University Seed-Grant Scheme	1 year	2024	Rs 1.9 Lacs	Dr. Ranjana Pandey		Completed
2	Isolation and screening of Silicase producing microorganisms and their characterization.	Sharda University Seed-Grant Scheme	1 year	2024	Rs 1.9 Lacs	Dr. Santosh Kumar Mishra	Dr. Mohit Kumar	Completed
3	Culturing and optimizing the growth of the phototrophic bacteria for the treatment of wastewater	Sharda University Seed-Grant Scheme	1 year	2023	Rs 1.9 Lacs	Dr. Nupur		Completed
4	A Health Informatics study of association of Hepatitis C viral proteins and Human Tumor Suppressing proteins leading to Hepato-Cellular Carcinoma	Indian Council of Medical Research, GOI	Three years	2021-24	Rs 51.18 Lacs	Prof. Vinod Joshi	Dr. Bennet Angel, Dr. Annette Angel, Dr .Vikram S. Chauhan	Ongoing
5	Prevalence risk factors and Laboratory Diagnosis of Pulmonary non Tuberculosis Mycobacterial Disease: A multicentre study	Indian Council of Medical Research, GOI	One year	2021-22	Rs 20.21 lakhs Lacs	Prof. Sayed E Hasnain	Dr Asrar A. Malik	Completed
6	A case-control study on large hospital data base to implicate role of co-morbities causing mortality of covid-19 patients and development of a new RT-PCR based algorithm as predictor of clinical outcome.	Indian Council of Medical Research, GOI	Three years	2022-25	Rs 54.27 lakhs Lacs	Dr. Bennet Angel	Prof. Vinod Joshi, Dr. Annette Angel, Dr. Manisha Jindal, Prof AK Gadpayle	Completed
7	Bioinformatics study of spatial distribution of variants of SARS CoV-2 & other respiratory viruses in India: In-Silico and wet lab studies of structural & non-structural protein mutations and their compatibility with vaccine/drug molecule	Indian Council of Medical Research, GOI	Three years	2023-26	Rs 67. 84Lakhs	Dr. Annette Angel	Prof. Vinod Joshi, Dr. Bennet Angel	Ongoing
8	Fabrication and Biological Assessment of Fucoidan-Garlic extract Coated Quercetin Nanoparticles as Synergistic Anti-Leishmanial Agent	SERB, Department of Science & Technology, GOI	Two years	2022-24	Rs 24.00Lakhs	Dr Piyush K Gupta	-	Completed
9	Isolation, characterization, of herbal plant constituents and their effect on curing Osteoporosis using osteoblastic cell lines	National Medicinal Plant Board, Ministry of AYUSH, GOI	Three years	2022-25	Rs. 40.02 Lacs	Dr Kanupriya	-	Ongoing
10	FIST Project (Level-1)	Department of Science & Technology, GOI	Five years	2022-27	Rs. 200.00 Lacs	Prof. Bhuvnesh Kumar	Dr. Sandeep Kumar Shukla	Ongoing
11	Development of Novel Auto Circulate Bio-Electrochemical Reactor (AutoCirBER) for Energy Positive Continuous Wastewater Treatment	DST (ASEAN-India Science & Technology Development Fund), GOI	Three years	2018-21	Rs 40.8 Lacs	Dr. Abhilasha Singh Mathuriya	-	Completed
12	Development of e-urinal	Life Science Research Board, Defence Research and Development Organization, GOI	One year	2020-21	Rs 30.18 Lacs	Dr. Abhilasha Singh Mathuriya	-	Completed
13	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning based Approaches for Modeling drug Resistance, Epidemiological Trends and Precision- Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in India	ICMR, Govt of India	One year	2024-2025	Rs 12.3216 Lacs	Nasreen Zafar Ehtesham	-	Ongoing
14	Multi-center clinical validation of the novel Fluorescence imaging instrument: SeeTB system	ICMR	Three years	2023-2026	Rs 66.85 Lacs	Nasreen Zafar Ehtesham	-	Ongoing
15	Molecular and Immunohistochemical diagnosis of Extrapulmonary cutaneous Tubeculosis	ICMR	Three years	2023-2026	Rs 34.36 Lacs	Nasreen Zafar Ehtesham	-	Ongoing
16	A Study on Enriched Bacopamonnieri Active Component Delivery Targeting Glioblastoma and Associated Neurocognitive Dysfunction	DBT Research Grant	One year	2023-2024	Rs 20.502 Lacs	Subhabrata Kar	-	Ongoing
17	Optimization of Bacterial Consortia for Biodecolorization and Biodegradation of Dyes from Textile Wastewater in Continuous Up-flow Column Bioreactor	Seed grant (SU)	One year	2023-2024	Rs 1.9 Lacs	Anamika Mehta	-	Ongoing
18	To develop the storage facility for the biological sample	Seed grant (SU)	One year	2023-2024	Rs 12 Lacs	Anwar Alam	-	Ongoing
19	Fabrication of phytochemical loaded chitosan-based microneedle patch against melanoma	Seed grant (SU)	One year	2023-2024	Rs 1.9 Lacs	Ashwini Kumar	-	Ongoing
20	To Establishing Fermentation Laboratory	Seed grant (SU)	One year	2023-2024	Rs 7.9 Lacs	Santosh Kumar Mishra	-	Ongoing
20	Fabrication of Cerium (III) and Cerium (IV) Oxide Nanoparticles for Industry-Ready Applications and Technology Transfer	Seed grant (SU)	One year	2023-2024	Rs 2.6 Lacs	Sushant Singh	-	Ongoing
20	Nanostructured Lipid Carrier- Based Fisetin Delivery and Evaluation of Its Cytoxic and Muscle mad Regulation Activity Under Atrophic conditions	Seed grant (SU)	One year	2023-2024	Rs 1.9 Lacs	Vikas Dutt	-	Ongoing

Placement

Higher Studies Record (2023-24)

Student Name	System ID	Course Passed	Course Joined	Institute/University Joined
Aashelesha Kumar	2021372105	B.Sc. Zoology	M.Sc. Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology	University of Leicester, England
Richa Sharma	2021428782	B.Sc. Biotechnology	M.Sc. Medical Microbiology	Leeds Beckett University, England
Krisha Khandelwal	202001726	B.Sc. Microbiology	M.Sc. MIcrobiology	Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea

Placement Record (2023-24)

Student Name	Company Name	Salary Package
Mansi Panwar	SR Institute of advanced ayurvedic sciences Pvt. Ltd.	2.40 lacs
Areeb Siddique	TalentServe	12.00 lacs
Antarika Biswas	ALS Genomics PVT. Ltd.	2.52 lacs
Lakshya Kumar Sinha	TalentServe	12.00 lacs
Shruti Priya	Accenture	3.44 Lacs
Shumaila Noor	EARTH CRUST PRIVATE LIMITED	5L to 8 Lacs
Abir Mazumder	EARTH CRUST PRIVATE LIMITED	5L to 8 Lacs
Nidhi Rajput	Evergreen enviro testing LLP	1.8 lacs
Urva Basaad	M/s ExpertLancing Research Services LLP, Gurugram	1.44 lacs
Prerana Ghosh	M/s ExpertLancing Research Services LLP, Gurugram	1.44 lacs
Ragini Mishra	Healtharx technologies private limited	3.0 LPA
Fauzia	Rebootxp,	2.1 LPA
Aayushee Srivastava	VNRSEED.Pvt. Ltd. Raipur	2.0 LPA

Facilities and Resources

Department possess well equipped laboratories specialized for varied research and routine lab experiments. The faculty members are dynamic and pursue interdisciplinary research in areas of plant biotechnology, crop improvement, protein biochemistry, drug discovery, virology, fermentation, plant tissue culture, animal cell culture and industrial biotechnology, food preservation and development of novel food products etc.

Student Achievement

Team clean and green fuel led by Mr. Soumyajit Chandra, Ph.D. Scholar from the Department of Life Sciences, secured the third Prize in the theme “Agricultural science and Allied subjects” at AIU Zonal Level Competition, held at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand on 25-26 Nov 2025.
Team Bioplastic led by Ms. Rakhi Rajput, Ph.D. Scholar from the Department of Life Sciences, secured the First Prize in the theme “Social Sciences, Humanities, Business Management, Commerce and Law” at AIU Zonal Level Competition, held at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand on 25-26 Nov 2025. She has also won First prize at International Level AIU Anveshan Event, held at Shoolini University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, on 25–26 February 2026.
Dr. Shilpa Kumari, completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Kanu Priya. During her PhD tenure she received several prestigious recognitions for her academic excellence and research contributions. She was honoured with the Social Warrior Award at the Environmental Sustainability and Business Conclave organized by Raghuraj Peepalman Foundation at India Habitat Centre in July 2025. In December 2024, she received the Young Scientist Award at the 8th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Zoologists and the 5th International Conference on Recent Trends in Life Sciences and Biotechnology, hosted by Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University).
Many of our students have qualified UGC-CSIR NET and GATE exam and are pursuing higher studies.
Ms. Neha Verma received Best Research scholar award at 6th International conference on cutting edge solutions in Science, Agriculture Technology, Engineering and Humanities 2024.
Ms. Neha Verma received Young Scientist award at 5th International and 8th annual meeting of Indian Academy of Zoology on recent trends in Life sciences and Biotechnology in 2024
Ms. Shilpa Kumari received Young Scientist award at 5th International and 8th annual meeting of Indian Academy of Zoology on recent trends in Life sciences and Biotechnology in 2024
Prof. Sibaram Khara, honorable vice chancellor of Sharda University felicitated Mr. Rohit Kumar, a Ph.D. student working under the supervision of Dr. Piyush Kumar Gupta for winning the UCB-Young Scientist Award during the 2^nd Biotechnology Conclave organized by Uttarakhand Council for Biotechnology, Haldi, India
Ms. Aparna Sharma (System ID: 2020570764) completed her Master's degree in Biotechnology, Department of Life Sciences, Sharda School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University. She published a peer reviewed Scopus Indexed journal paper as first author (Microbiomics for enhancing electron transfer in an electrochemical system. Frontiers in Microbiology. IF: 6.064. DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2022.868220). Currently, she is doing PhD in biotechnology from Kangwon National University, South Korea.
Mr. Dantuluri Veerabhadra Raju (System ID: 2019518409) completed his completed my Bachelor's degree in Microbiology from the Department of Life Sciences, Sharda School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University. She published a peer reviewed Scopus Indexed journal paper as first author (Effect of bacterial quorum sensing and mechanism of antimicrobial resistance. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology. DOI: 10.1016/j.bcab.2022.102409). Currently, he is doing Masters in biotechnology from Monash University, Australia.
Presented paper at IISc Bangalore for International conference on Women in Electrochemistry (ICWEC-2023)