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Drug repurposing pipeline for psychiatric disorders
Dr Kalyani Bindu
Project Overview: This project aims to develop a systematic strategy to discover and repurpose drugs for psychiatric syndromes, moving beyond conventional approaches by incorporating spatial, functional, and network-level insights derived from transcriptomic and interactomic datasets.
Number of Openings: 2
Intern Roles & Responsibilities: Literature review, drug compilation, drug-disease transcriptomic analysis, figure generation, and synthesis of results.
Eligibility & Required Skills:
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Ongoing Bachelor's or Master's degree in any life science discipline
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Interest or prior experience in pharmacology
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Openness to systems biology approaches and exploring new bioinformatic tools
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Basic proficiency in R and Python
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Good follow-through, communication, and documentation skills
Duration: 6 months
Tentative Start Date: June 1, 2026
Application Deadline: May 25, 2026
Work Mode: Online, with video calls as required and at least one in-person meeting per month.
Additional Requirements from Applicant: Please submit a writing sample — an academic assignment completed as part of any of your degree programs.