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Vision
The Vision of Department of Bioinformatics is to provide the best education and training for students to prepare them for professional research careers in biological sciences as well as software industry. The Department plans to produce eminent scientists in the field of Bioinformatics.
Mission
To facilitate, conduct and organize research work by teams comprised of core groups leading to inventions and to cooperate to meet this end and also to work acquiring the patents of such inventions. With its strong commitment to education, the department expects its graduates to have acquired solid subject knowledge and laboratory skills in the field of Bioinformatics upon their graduation. In addition, with our innovative curriculum, the graduates are also expected to possess all-round competence in IT technology, information gathering and synthesis, critical thinking, efficient oral and written communication, and teamwork spirit and capability so that their career prospects go beyond the field of life sciences.
Alumni Testimonials
A VISTA is one of the best institutes that I have studied in. My department teachers are friendly and I had great classmates. The study program provides course material in a very comprehensive manner touching on all the relevant topics. I also like that our lecturers use real- life examples and the fact that the infrastructure is very useful. The skills I learnt during the program have helped me immensely in my career. I thoroughly enjoyed the coursework at Bioinformatics (VISTAS).
Mr. Agnal Vincent Paul (M.Sc. Bioinformatics) (Batch) 2010-2012
Project Bioinformatics Programmer Analyst, Genome Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., Accenture
Its was great experience studying at Vels University, a memory to cherish for lifetime. My experience at Vels was full of learning and grooming. Being a global University it gave me an opportunity to meet different kind of people from around the world and learnt many things from them. I am thankful to all the faculties, mentors and entire Bioinformatics department for providing us with quality education. I am also very thankful to the department for organizing plenty of workshops and seminars to help me understand the culture of industry we’re going to work in. Overall it was a great experience and lifetime memory at Vels University. If you want to make a career in advance life Sciences, I would highly recommend you to join Vels University.
Mr. Dr. Sudeep Tiwari (M.Sc.Bioinformatics ) 2009-2011)
Senior Scientist , Gilead Sciences, Inc
As a student in the M.Sc. program in Bioinformatics, I gained both the skills and confidence to thoughtfully use a variety of quantitative approaches in my work. The instructors in each course were patient, understanding, and highly skilled. I would highly recommend this program to anyone wanting to expand their quantitative repertoire or for anyone who needs a refresher.
Ms. Dhananya.S (M.Sc. Bioinformatics) 2019-2021
Health care Associate, Accenture
“I like the friendly atmosphere in our Department and the fact that the teachers are really kind to the students. We are very much supported in our studies. The way of teaching is really interesting. They are also very motivational. My grades have grown up a lot as the classes are practically oriented. The teachers takes more time to focus on each
student.”
Jaswanth Jenny. P (M.Sc. Bioinformatics)
Team lead, Life sciences - Clarivate Analytics
Faculty of the Department
| Sl. No. | Name of the Faculty | Designation | Educational Qualification | Area of Specialization | Experience in Years | Vidwan ID | Photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr.Radha Mahendran | Professor and Head | M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D. | Structural Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Designing, Molecular Genetics and Microbial Informatics | 20years,2months | 234080 |  |
| 2 | Dr.Priya.R | Assistant Professor | M.Sc.,Ph.D | Biomedical Science, Structural Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Genetics, Nanoinformatics | 8 years 9 months | 290700 |  |
| 3 | Ms.Shanmugavani.S | Assistant Professor | M.Sc.,M.Phil.,(Ph.D) | Molecular Biology, NanoTechnology, Genetics, rDNA Technology, Genomics and Proteomics, Programming in BioPython | 3 years | 294048 |  |
| 4 | Dr.Senthil.R | Assistant Professor | M.Sc.,M.Phil.,Ph.D | Protein Folding and aggregation , Genomics, Big Data Analysis, | 16 years 2 months | 415583 |  |
| 5 | Dr.Kiresee Saghana.P.R | Assistant Professor | M.Sc.,M.Phil.,Ph.D | Molecular Modelling, Drug Designing,Genomics and Proteomics, Big Data Analysis, Programming in BioPERL, Biophython, R-Programming, | 4 years 2 months | 480699 |  |