Applications are invited for admission to Ph.D. Program
(Semester 1, 2025-2026) in the interdisciplinary areas of Life Sciences
( Last updated on 07 Apr 2025)
IBAB is an autonomous Institution set up by the Department of Electronics, IT, BT and S&T of the Government of Karnataka in 2001. Over the last 23 years, the Institute has grown into a world-class institution offering educational programs in Bioinformatics, Biotechnology and Big Data Biology. IBAB has established excellent facilities in both computational and experimental Life Sciences and houses state-of-the-art computing infrastructure including Graphical Processing Units (GPU) servers, high-end workstations and high-capacity network and storage facilities besides well-equipped state-of-the-art bioscience laboratories for experimental work. The Institute has well qualified faculty with international experience and offers Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral programs in frontier areas of interdisciplinary Life Sciences.
Research Areas
- Disease Genomics
- Epigenomics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Multiomic integration (Cancer, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Stroke, Malaria, metabolic disorders, ageing, spermatogenesis) for biomarker discovery
- Single Cell-Sequencing and Spatial Transcriptomics
- Synthetic and Systems Biology
- Photoprotection mechanisms in biomolecules
- Graph Algorithms and Information Theory for Modelling Biological States using AI/ML
- Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Drug Design using AI
- Multimodal Data Integration for Biomarker Discovery using AI/ML
Eligibility
Master’s degree (2 years) in any branch of Life Sciences/ Biotechnology/Bioengineering/ Bioinformatics/ Computational Biology/ Computer Science and Engineering / Pharmacy /Medicine /Physics/Chemistry with a minimum of 60% marks or equivalent, OR
B.Tech./ B.E or equivalent (4 years) in any branch of Science/Technology with 75% marks or equivalent
Selection Procedure
National level proctored online entrance exam followed by an in-person interview at IBAB, Bangalore
Please visit the webpage of IBAB for details regarding the faculty research areas and the PhD projects being floated for the current round of selections
Stipend / Fellowship
IBAB strongly encourages students with their own fellowships (CSIR-UGC, DST-INSPIRE, DBT-JRF and ICMR-JRF) to apply to the Ph.D. program
Exceptional candidates without a fellowship or a valid GATE score shall be provided with a competitive assistantship by the Institute
Application Procedure
Candidates who satisfy the eligibility criteria must submit the application online along with the application fee of Rs. 700/- via NEFT.
NEFT Details
Name of the Account: Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology
Account No: 036005011787
Type of Account: Current Account
Name of the Bank : ICICI Bank
Bank Branch: Electronic City
IFSC Code : ICIC0000360
Link for online application
Deadline for submission of applications is May 14, 2025
Important Dates
| Application Start Date | April 7, 2025 |
| Deadline for Submission of Application Form | May 14, 2025 |
| Date of Online Entrance Examination | May 25, 2025 |
| Announcement of shortlisted candidates | Last week of May |
| Date of Interview | Second week of June |
| Release of list of selected candidates | Third week of June |
| Commencement of the Ph.D. program | July 15, 2025 |
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