Welcome to CSBL

Biography

Prof. Sonika Bhatnagar completed her Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral work in Department of Biophysics, AIIMS. She has been involved with the BSE Department since its inception. She has worked towards developing the curricula, laboratories and other infrastructure in the Department. She carried out an international consultancy assignment and was awarded the Innocentive solver award for shortlisting of five top therapeutic targets for obesity in 2003. Her work lies in the area of systems biology and structural study of protein -protein interactions as novel drug targets using machine learning, and genomics & proteomics. Collaborative projects have also been established for molecular Biology, drug design & discovery for cardiovascular disease drug design and study of stress response in bacteria.

Experience

Over a decade of hands-on research in computational modeling and structural analysis of biomolecules.

Roles

Research Leadership

Led multiple projects advancing protein structure prediction.

Photo of the principal investigator analyzing molecular structures on a computer screen in the lab.
Photo of the principal investigator analyzing molecular structures on a computer screen in the lab.
Teaching Courses
  • Structural Biology

  • Bioinformatics

  • Sequence Bioinformatics

  • Structural Bioinformatics

Research Interest
  • Cardiovascular Diseases

  • Bacterial Stress Response

  • Computational Genomics

  • Drug Repurposing

  • Systems Biology

  • Health Informatics

  • Machine Learning

  • Data Analytics

  • Literature Mining