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 posttranscriptional mechanisms mediated by Interleukin-1.
Current Lab Members
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
Ms. Bhawana
Ph.D. Student (Jointly with IIT Delhi) July 2024 onwards
Current focus: Non-coding transcriptome in Autophagy
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
Project Staff
Positions open and recruitment in progress. Feel free to apply to sdhamija@sau.int
Project JRF, Technical Assistant positions funded under the DBT/India Alliance project.
Candidates with matching interests for postdoctoral fellowship applications are welcome to contact