IMPACT Lab
NEWS & Achievements
March 2026
Mitiksha Gupta will travel to Japan as an exchange student, collaborating with Dr Koichi Kobayashi from Hokkaido University as part of the LOTUS Programme where she will work on Type 1 Diabetes.
5 February, 2026
Soumya Puri and Dr. Jugal's article titled 'Probiotics for cancer and diabetes?' was published in 360info.
Read it here
Arumugam receives the 'Top student talk' award at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in Biosciences 2025 at IISER Tirupati.
16 - 17 December, 2025
Mitiksha Gupta receives Poster & Travel Award in Immunocon 2025, the 52nd Annual Conference of the Indian Immunology Society.
19 - 22 November, 2025
October 2025
Zahra Shafiezade joins the IMPACT Lab as an exchange student from University of Tehran, Iran. She will be working on CAR-T cell based cancer immunotherapy.
Varsha Dhanda and Dr. Jugal's article originally published in 360info (Editor's Pick): "AI revolutionising fight against cancer and diabetes" is now republished in several news outlets including Down to Earth, Deccan Herald, The Week, NDTV, MSN, Daily Excelsior, Policy Circle, News Drum and Code Blue (Malaysia), Big News Network (UAE).
Read it here
September, 2025
Our lab's undergraduate students, Aleena Aby, Arumugam, Tanya and Varuna felicitated for being in the Dean's list for Spring 2025, a list of the top 10% of students in their degree program.
25 September, 2025
Arumugam visits University of Alabama in Birmingham, as an International Visiting Scholar for his Summer 2025 internship at the Comprehensive Diabetes Centre, UAB.
May - July, 2025
Aleena secures the Khorana Scholarship 2025 and interned at the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Memphis to work on a CAR-T based project in the Summer 2025.