About the Department
A Centre of Biosciences was started in 1980 and upgraded to a full-fledged academic Department of Biosciences and Biotechnology in 1986. It was renamed as the Department of Biotechnology in the year 2002. The department has teaching and research programmes which encompass various basic and applied aspects of modern biotechnology.

Courses Offered :

BE in Biotechnology

Research Areas :

Plant Biotechnology (Group Leaders: Chauhan Harsh, Randhawa G.S., Sircar Debabrata, Yadav Shri Ram)
Biochemical Process Engineering (Group Leaders : Choudhury Bijan, Datta Saurav, Ghosh Sanjay)
Structural & Computational Biology (Group Leaders : Barthwal Ritu, Hazra Saugata, Kumar Pravindra,
Microbiology (Group Leaders : Pathania Ranjana, Pruthi Vikash, Singh R.P.)
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (Group Leaders : Mandal P., Navani N., Prasad R., Sharma A.K.,Tomar S.)
Animal Biotechnology (Group Leaders: Ambatipudi Kiran., Roy Partha, Rohatgi Soma,Sarangi Pranita P.)
Immunology & Nanotechnology (Group Leaders: Gopinath P., Rohatgi Soma, Sarangi Pranita P.)

Faculty :

Kiran Ambatipudi
Assistant Professor

Ritu Barthwal
Professor

Harsh Chauhan
Assistant Professor

Bijan Choudhury
Associate Professor

Saurav Datta
Assistant Professor

Sanjoy Ghosh
Associate Professor

P. Gopinath
Associate Professor

Saugata Hazra
Assistant Professor

Pravindra Kumar
Associate Professor

Contact Detials
IIT Roorkee
Address: Roorkee - Haridwar Highway, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667
Phone: 01332 285 311