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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

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
Ms. Neha Verma and Ms. Shilpa Kumari, Ph.D. scholars, has received Young scientist award at 5th International and 8th annual meeting of IAZ on recent trends in Life sciences and Biotechnology.
Many of our students have qualified UGC-CSIR NET and GATE exam and are pursuing higher studies.

Seminars & Workshops

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

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		Ongoing
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	Ongoing
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	Ongoing
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	Ongoing
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	-	Ongoing
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
7	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
10	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
11	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

Faculty Achievement

The 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

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)
Dr. Piyush Kumar Gupta was awarded fellowship of Indian National Academy of Engineering
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

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

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)