Siddharth Jhunjhunwala | AIChE

Siddharth Jhunjhunwala

Assistant Professor
Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering-Indian Institute of Science

Siddharth Jhunjhunwala is currently an Assistant Professor at the Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science. He is currently an Intermediate Wellcome-DBT India Alliance fellow, and has been awarded the Ramanujan Fellowship as well as the R.I. Mazumdar young investigator position in the past. Siddharth completed his Bachelors in Industrial Biotechnology at Anna University (Chennai), and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh). As part of his doctoral training, he developed drug delivery systems to generate tolerogenic immune cells. Siddharth did his postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on understanding immune cell – biomaterial interactions. His research interests are in the field of immunoengineering, and his current work focuses on utilizing biomaterials to study and modulate immune responses.