GUEST LECTURES

2021

Dr. Vandana Patravale
Professor of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai Popular Science online talk on "Pharmaceutics: Can It Help Understand Drug Targeting?” Organized by Indian Women Scientist Association (IWSA) supported by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy
7th January 2021

2020

Anupama Harshal W.
Consultant, (Science Communication and Public Engagement) Manav - The Human Atlas Initiative, IISER, Pune

"How to Read Scientific Literature?" and "Introduction to Manav- The Human atlas”

M.Sc Biological Sciences (1st & 2nd Year) 5-Year Integrated Biomedical Sciences (3rd, 4th & 5th Year)

17^th October 2020
Swati Patankar
IIT Bombay

"Being a scientist: contributions during the global pandemic”

An online talk for Science club members

7^th October 2020
Aditya Gupta
MD, The Rug Republics, New Delhi

"Lessons from The Everest”

Nature's Club@SDSOS

27^th September 2020
Pallavi Karnik
Assistant General Manager, Intas Pharmaceutical Ltd.

"Biotherapeutics” M.Sc. Biological Sciences (First and Second Year) and 5 Year Integrated Biomedical Sciences (Fourth and Fifth Year)

12^th September 2020
Sudha Raj
Director - Clinical Operation & BD, CLINISYD Research Global Solutions Pvt Ltd.

"Career prospects in Clinical Trials” M.Sc. Biological Sciences (First and Second Year) and 5 Year Integrated Biomedical Sciences (Fourth and Fifth Year)
5^th September 2020
Dr Pinky Parekh
Prcinceton Care Center, & Greater Brunswick Charter School

"Sensory Integration Part 1”

MPT 1 (Entire batch) and MPT 2 (Neurosciences)

29^th August 2020
Indraneel Chatterjee & Dr. Varsha Kankani
Founder partner and Director, Adya Enterprise, Mumbai

"Chemistry Beyond Wet Labs”

M.Sc. Chemistry first and second year

8^th August 2020
Khokan Debnath
Head of Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations and Pharmacovigilance, Wockhardt Ltd.

"Clinical Trials and Pharmacovigilance” M.Sc. Biological Sciences (First and Second Year) and 5 Year Integrated Biomedical Sciences (Fourth and Fifth Year)

1^st August 2020
Chirag Trivedi
Sanofi - Clinical Study Unit Cluster Head - India-South East Asia

"Career opportunities in Clinical Research”

M.Sc/Integrated M.Sc-PhD. Biological Sciences & Biomedical Science

7^th March 2020
Girish Mahajan
Vice President, Microbiology Division, Himedia Labs Pvt Ltd.

"Career opportunities in Biotechnology”

M.Sc/Integrated M.Sc-PhD. Biological Sciences & Biomedical Science

14^th March 2020

2019

Dr. Sharmistha Dutta Choudhury

BARC

"Understanding Molecular Spectroscopy: From fundamental to applications”

(Popular Science lecture series in association with Indian Women Scientists’ Association)

M.Sc/Integrated M.Sc-PhD.. Chemistry

12^thOctober 2019

Dr. Rachel Anantha

Medical Writer

"Career Opportunities in Medical Writing”

M.Sc/Integrated M.Sc-PhD.. Biological and M.Sc Biomedical Science

31^stAugust 2019

Mr. Rajesh Jakhotia

Machine Learning & Statistics

"Application of Machine Learning and Statistics in Industry”

M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics

18^thApril 2019

Dr. Anmol Sonawane

Cardiologist (Jupiter Hospital)

"ECGs”

Physiotherapy

9^thFebruary 2019

Dr. Mariya Jiandani

Associate Prof., Seth GSMC and KEM Hospital

"Early Mobilisation and Weaning””

Physiotherapy

9^thFebruary 2019

Dr. Salil Bendre

Senior Pulmonologist, Nanavati Super Specialty Hospital

"Interpreting "Chest X-rays”

Physiotherapy

9^thFebruary 2019

Dr. Suresh Birajdar

Neonatologist, Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital

"Considerations in PICU”

Physiotherapy

9^thFebruary 2019

Dr. Abdul Ansari

Director Critical Care, Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital

"Mechanical Ventilators” and its clinical implications”

Physiotherapy

9^thFebruary 2019

Mr. Vinay Vedak

"Microsoft Excel”

M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics

9^thFebruary, 2019

Mr. Nachiket Pendharkar

Proprietor, Vedak & Co.(CA, CFA, Microsoft Certified Trainer & Excel expert)

"Microsoft Excel”

M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics

2^ndFebruary 2019

Mr. Ravi Vyas

Head Professor & Director, S. Monk School of Actuaries

"Actuarial Science”

M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics

1^stFebruary 2019

Ms. Madhavi Gokhale

Area Chairperson, Communications, School of Business Management (SBM), NMIMS Mumbai

"Communications”

M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics

1^stFebruary 2019

Mr. Pallab Bhattacharya

Associate Director Business Excellence & Data Science, Edelweiss Financial Services, Mumbai

"Data Science”

M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics

1^stFebruary 2019

Dr. Tuhin Chattopadhyay

Chief Technology Officer, QuantFarm Pvt. Ltd.

"Statistics”

M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics

1^stFebruary 2019

Tanemura Masaki

Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

"Catalytic Activity on Low Temperature Graphene Growth based on Dynamic TEM Observations”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

10^thJanuary 2019

Vivek Tanavde

Ahmedabad University

"miRNA regulation of stem cell differentiation: Do miRNA networks regulate signalling networks in differentiating Mesenchymal Stromal Cells?”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

10^thJanuary 2019

Gitanjali Yadav

National Institute of Plant Genome Research

"Identification and Analysis of KIX domains and their Interacting partner Transactivation Domains (TAD) during Transcription”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

10^thJanuary 2019

Shailza Singh

National Centre for Cell Science, Pune

"Systems driven Synthetic bio therapeutics device in Leishmaniasis”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

10^thJanuary 2019

Musthafa Muhammed

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

"Realization of Hydrogen Economy with Electrochemical Energy Devices”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

10^thJanuary 2019

Praveen Kumar Vemula

InStem, Bengaluru

"Disease-responsive biomaterials: A novel concept for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

10^thJanuary 2019

Rohit Srivastava

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

"Affordable Healthcare Technologies”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

10^thJanuary 2019

K V Venkatesh

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

"Systems Engineering Perspective of Human Metabolism through a Multiscale Model for Disease Analysis : A Cell to Human Framework”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

9^thJanuary 2019

Kaushik Chatterjee

Indian Institute of Science

"Biomaterials for Engineering Organotypic Culture Models for Breast Cancer and Cardiac Diseases”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

9^thJanuary 2019

Prakriti Tayalia

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

"Porous synthetic matrices as platforms for immunotherapy and cancer studies”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

9^thJanuary 2019

Abhijit De

Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Mumbai

"Avenues of in vivo Multimodality Imaging during Development of Cancer Nanotherapeutics”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

9^thJanuary 2019

Ashok Raichur

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

"Hyaluronic acid nanocapsules enhance chemosensitivity and reduce breast cancer stemlike cells”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

9^thJanuary 2019

Shilpa N. Sawant

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai

"Electrochemical Biosensors for Metabolite Detection”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

9^thJanuary 2019

Prof. Holger Gohlke

Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

"Functional selectivity and basal activity of G-protein coupled receptors deduced from network rigidity”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

9^thJanuary 2019

Tapas Sen

University of Central Lancashire, UK

"Functional Nanomaterials in CleanTech and Medicine: An overview of our past and on-going UKIERI projects”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

9^thJanuary 2019

Heinrich Lang

Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany

"Small Tailor-made Molecules To: New Materials”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

8^thJanuary 2019

Ehud Gazit

Tel Aviv University, Israel

"Peptide and Metabolite Materials: A Reductionist Approach”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

8^thJanuary 2019

Shailendra Giri

Henry Ford Health System, USA

"Blood-based untargeted metabolomics in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis revealed testable therapeutic target”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

8^thJanuary 2019

Mr. Man Mohan Sharma

Padma Vibhushan

"General Science”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

8^thJanuary 2019

Vivek Polshettiwar

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

"Advanced Nanomaterials for Harvesting Solar Energy, Catalysis and CO₂Capture”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

8^thJanuary 2019

Vandana Patravale

Institute of Chemical Technology

"Functionalized Nanosystems as Trojan horses for Superior Therapeutics”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

8^thJanuary 2019

Jayakumar Rangasamy

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Kochi

"Multiple Applications of Injectable Hydrogels”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

8^thJanuary 2019

Prof. Ganesh Viswanathan

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

"Topological and functional analysis of a comprehensive TNFα signaling network”

Biological Sci. & Chemistry

8^thJanuary 2019

2018

Mr. Jitendra Tawde Asst. General Manager, Operations International Business Division, Godfrey Phillips India Ltd.
19th December 2018

2017

Chief Guest for Sankhyiki 2018 Mr. Vyom Upadhyay,
- BI and Anlaytics Head, ICICI Bank
- M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics
- 11th January 2018
Ms. Madhumita Ghosh, Practice Leader
- Cognitive, Big Data, Advanced Analytics, IBM India Private Ltd.
- BI and Anlaytics Head, ICICI Bank
- M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics
- 11th January 2018
Mr. Venkatesh CG, CoP Lead : Data Science, LTI
- BI and Anlaytics Head, ICICI Bank
- M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics
- 11th January 2018
Mr. Rebello, Director, L. R. Associates Pvt. Ltd.
- Raising Your Talent Bar
- M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics
- 11th January 2018
Mr. Harshil Gandhi, Associate Technical Consultant, SAS Institute India
- Python Workshop
- M.Sc. Statistics and B.Sc. Statistics
- 12th January 2018
Ms. Moumita Sarker, Director - Client Delivery at Cartesian Consulting
- "Applications of Statistics in the Retail / Ecommerce sector”
- Statistics
- March 4, 2017
Mr. Jitendra Tawde, Asst. General Manager, Operations International Business Division, Godfrey Phillips India Ltd
- "Applications of Statistics in the Manufacturing sector”
- Statistics
- March 4, 2017
Ms. Madhumita Ghosh, Business Transformation Leader - BIG DATA & Advanced Analytics: Digital Practice-Global Business Services at IBM
- "Applications of Statistics in the Telecom sector”
- Statistics
- January 21, 2017

2016

Dr. Them Kolja, Institute for Biomedical Imaging, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany
- Biomedical applications of nanoparticles in Magnetic Particle Imaging
- Biological Sciences & Chemistry
- December 9, 2016
Mr. Sudeepta Chaudhuri, Vice President - Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics, Idea Cellular
Applications of Statistics in the Telecom sector
Statistics
- March 12, 2016
Dr Ravindra Shetty, Patent Attorney and Advocate. Patent & its Impact
Biological Sciences & Chemistry
- March 10, 2016
Mr. Viswanathan Subramanian, Vice President – Analytics, Brandscapes Worldwide Applications of Statistics in the Market Research sector
Statistics
- March 05, 2016
Mr. Nandkishore Rawat, Founder, Cytel Statistical Software and Services Pvt. Ltd. Industry expectations from young Statisticians
Statistics
- February 27, 2016
Mr. Satya Tiwari, CEO, Avesta Nordic Pvt. Ltd. Applications of Statistics in the Pharma / 6 sigma sector
Statistics
- February 27, 2016
Ms. Moumita Sarker, Director-Client Delivery, Cartesian Consulting Applications of Statistics in the Retail / Ecommerce sector
Statistics
- February 20, 2016
Dr. Ankit Shah, Consulting Radiologist, KS Hospital
Master of Physiotherapy
- February 6, 2016
Dr. Sushil Gadekar, Chief Intensivist, Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital
Master of Physiotherapy
- February 6, 2016
Dr. Mariya Jiandani, Associate Professor, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital
Master of Physiotherapy
- February 6, 2016
Dr. Seemi Retharekar, Associate Professor & Head of Department, Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy, Sancheti College of Physiotherapy, Pune
Master of Physiotherapy
- February 6, 2016

2015

Dr. Purnima Karia
Stroke Rehabilitation Master of Physiotherapy
- December 23, 2015
Mr. Leslie Rebello, Director, L. R. Associates Pvt. Ltd.
"Conducted the "Campus to Corporate” Training Session during this workshop”
- 21st November 2015
Ms. Shubhosree Dasgupta, Vice President, Business Intelligence Unit, Axis Bank Ltd.
"Applications of Statistics and Analytics in the Banking Sector”
- 20th November 2015
Mr. Raj Jhaveri, Manager – Education, SAS and Ultramax
"Role of Education in SAS and Ultramax”
- 20th November 2015
Mr. Nirlap Vora, SAS Practise Head - Analytics Platform (SAS and Ultramax)
"Analytics in Action”
- 20th November 2015
Ms. Moumita Sarker, Director – Client Delivery, Cartesian Consulting
"Analytics in Cartesian Consulting”
- 20th November 2015
Mr. Sudeepta Chaudhuri, Vice President - Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics, Idea Cellular Ltd.
"Scope of Analytics to Make Every Phone Ring”
- 20th November 2015
Dr. A. P. Gore, Vice President (Statistical Services), Cytel Statistical Software and Services Pvt. Ltd.
"Clinical Trials for Health and Beauty”
- 20th November 2015
Mr. Jairam Sridharan, President - Retail Lending & Payments, Axis Bank Ltd.
"Statistics and Data Science – The New Differentiator”
- 20th November 2015
Dr. Aashish Contractor, Head- Cardiac Rehab & Sports Medicine, Shri H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai
"Exercise is Medicine”
- 19th November 2015
Mr. Debopam Chadhuri, Vice President & Chief Economist Zyfin Research Foundation "Statistical Analysis of Indian Capital Market”
- 19th September 2015
Dr. Vidita Vaidya, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
"Early Life and the programming of Psychopathology”
- 2nd September 2015
Dr. Vandana Patravale, Professor of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
"Novel Cationic Heterolipid: A Tojan Horse for Drug Delivery”
- 8th August 2015
Mr. Sandeep Sailli, Clinical Specialist, BCR-Therapie (Singapore) Pte Ltd
"BCR – Therapy”
- 22nd August 2015
Dr. Pradeep Moonot, Orthopedic Surgeon. Breach Candy Hospital, S L Raheja Hospital, Mahim, Sunridges Multispeciality Hospital.
"Foot and Ankle – Biomechanics and Clinical Conditions”
- 15th April 2015
Mr. Satya Tiwari, Commercial Director, Anti-Infectives, Classic Brands, EMAP, GSK
"Project Orientation: Applications of Statistics and Lean Six Sigma in Pharmaceutical Sector”
- 11th April 2015
Mr. Sudeepta Chaudhuri, Asst. Vice President - Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics, Idea Cellular
"Project Orientation: Applications of Statistics and Analytics in the Telecom Sector”
- 11th April 2015
Dr. Ganesh Viswanathan, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
"Systems biology of Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha signalling”.
- 7th April 2015
Prof. Steve Winder, Director, M.Sc. in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
"A new therapeutic strategy to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy”
- 9th March 2015
Dr. Salil Bendre, MD, Consulting Chest Physician, Nanavati Superspeciality Hospital
"Respiratory Care”
- 22nd February 2015.

2014

Dr. Yasmin Khan, Associate Professor, Sophia College
"Role of Retinoic Acid on the Development of the Posterior Lateral Line in Zebrafish”
- 26th July 2014, Saturday 3-4 pm.
Dr. Sanjeeva Srivastava, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
"Identification of Potential Early Diagnostic Biomarkers for Gliomas and Various Infectious Diseases using Proteomic Technologies”
- 28th April 2014, Monday 3-4 pm
Dr. Anagha Damre, Piramal Life Sciences, Mumbai
"Herb-Drug Interaction: Prevalence and Underlying Mechanism”
- 8th March 2014, Saturday, 2 pm
Mr. Suresh Nimbalkar, Senior Vice President, Hansa Research, Mumbai
"Application of Statistics in Market Research”
- 21st February 2014
Dr. Pritha Ray, Scientific Officer- E and Assistant Professor, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Kharghar, Navi Mumbai.
"In vivo Molecular Imaging”
- 17th February 2014, Monday, 11 am

2013

Dr. Jyotishman Dasgupta, Department of Chemistry, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
"Light-induced Chemistry: Story of Reactive Motions and Intermediates”
- October 7, 2013
Dr. Dhruv K. Singh, Consultant Diabetologist and MD, Just Diabetes, Andheri, Mumbai
"Tubular Dysfunction With Low Circulating Levels of Erythropoietin and 1,25-(Oh)2 D3 Occurs Early in Diabetes Subjects With Normal GFR”
- September 26, 2013
Dr. Jyothi Subramanian, Biostatistician – Consultant and Research Scientist
"Importance and Impact of Statistics in Drug Development”
- August 31, 2013
Dr. Basuthkar J Rao, Chairperson and Senior Professor of Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
"Chromosomes Move While Repairing Themselves”
- August 24, 2013
Dr. Medha Rajadhyaksha, Head and Associate Professor, Dept of Life Sciences, Sophia College, Mumbai
"Speech and Language”
- March 20, 2013
Dr. Ankona Datta, Principal Investigator, Chemical Biology and Molecular Imaging Lab, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
"Turn on’ Sensors for Imaging the Chemistry of Life”
- February 16, 2013

2012

Mr. Amul Desai, Senior Principal Consultant, SAS Institute India Pvt. Ltd.
"Applications of Statistics in Industry”
- March 31, 2012
Dr. Dr. Jnanesh Thacker, Consultant in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Hinduja Hospital, Mahim, Mumbai
"Heart transplantation: Recent trends and challenges”
- January 7, 2012

2011

Dr. M.N Welling, Hon’able Pro Vice Chancellor, NMIMS (Deemed to be University), Mumbai
"Welling Index: Theory and Applications”
- August 27, 2011
Dr. S. D. Varde, External Academic Advisor to Warwick University, UK
"Selection of Project Topic”
- August 6, 2011
Dr. Laxmikant Gharat, Vice President, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Navi Mumbai"Design of New Chemical Entities (NCEs): From Lab to Clinics”- May 7, 2011