Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Dr. Sonam Dhamija
Dr. Sonam Dhamija is an Assistant Professor at the South Asian University, New Delhi since September 2025. She started the lab at CSIR-IGIB in November 2020 as a Ramalingaswami Fellow and later secured a DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship in 2023. She has done her postdoctoral work at the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Freiburg University Clinic and German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) at Heideliberg. She did her PhD under Prof. Helmut Holtmann at the Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany on the posttranslational mechanisms mediated by Interleukin-1 in 2011.
Current Lab Members
Mr. Shivam Mishra
Ph.D. Student (ICMR Fellow) August 2024 onwards
Current focus: Nonstop mutations in Breast Cancer
Ms. Krishna G. Nair
Ph.D. Student (CSIR Fellow) January 2024 onwards
Current focus: Translation readthrough in cancer
Ms. Janki Insan
MSR/Ph.D. Student (Jointly with IIT Delhi) July 2022 onwards
BTech (Biotech), Jaypee University of Information Technology
Current focus: Microproteins in EMT & Cancer
Project Staff
Ms. Muskan Manjari
Project Associate I (September 2023 - till date)
MSc dissertation project (January - June 2023)
MSc (Microbiology), Central University of TN (pursuing)
BSc (Biotech), Magadh University
Current focus: Transcriptional control of TGFb-induced EMT
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Mr. Shubham Yadav
Project Assistant I (December 2024 - till date)​
Trainees & Master Thesis students
Mr. Nikhil M.V. (September 2025 onwards), M.Sc. Dissertation, SAU
Ms. Anwesha Das (September 2025 onwards), M.Sc. Dissertation, SAU
Mr. Bibek Biswa (September 2025 onwards), M.Sc. Dissertation, SAU
Mr. Yeshi Jamtsho (September 2025 onwards), M.Sc. Dissertation, SAU
Ms. Vaishnavi Sharma (September 2025 onwards), M.Sc. Dissertation, SAU
Past Members
Ms. Vaishnavi G
Project Associate I (August 2024 - August 2025)
MSc (Human Gen. & Mol. Biol.), Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
BSc (Biochemistry), SRM Arts and Science College, Madras University
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Ms. Moubani Dutta
Project Associate I (December 2024 - August 2025)
MSc (Microbiology), St. Xavier's College, Calcutta University
BSc (Microbiology), Kalyani University​
Ms. Mausam Rana
Project Associate I ( Feb 2022 - Dec 2022)
Integrated MSc (Biological Sciences), University of Mumbai
Presently: PhD student, Giessen, Germany
Ms. Sameera Puranapanda
Project Associate I (April 2023 - July 2024)
MSc (Genomic Science), Central University of Kerala
BSc (Biochemistry), Adikavi Nannaya University, AP
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Ms. Rinki Basoya
Project Associate I (May 2023 - June 2024)
MSc (Molecular Medicine), JNU
BSc (Botany-Hons), Delhi University
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Trainees / Master Thesis students
Abhay Singh Sikarwar (June - August 2025)
Zainab Aslam (Jan - June 2025) (MSc Thesis work)
Sakshi Gupta (June 2024 - March 2025) (MSc Thesis work)
Ms. Akshita Kulkarni (June-July 2024)
Ms. Shraddha Nirmal (Jan - June 2024) (MSc Thesis work)
Drishti Avasthi (June-July 2023)
Sharanya Karmakar (May-July 2023)
Muskan Manjari (Jan-June 2023) (MSc Thesis work)