Scientists at ICGEB run over 45 research projects across as many laboratories in Trieste, Italy, New Delhi, India and Cape Town, South Africa. Find out more about our Principal Investigators, their research activities and fields of expertise.
Trieste, Italy – Headquarters

Lawrence Banks
Tumour Virology

Marco Baralle
RNA Biology

Federica Benvenuti
Cellular Immunology

Luca Braga
Functional Cell Biology

Emanuele Buratti
Molecular Pathology

Wendy Craig
Regulatory Science
New Delhi, India

Arockiasamy Arulandu
Structural Biology

Anmol Chandele
Emory Vaccine Program

Ved Prakash Dwivedi
Immunobiology

Dinesh Gupta
Translational Bioinformatics

Pavan Jutur
Omics of Algae

Tanushri Kaul
Nutritional Improvement of Crops

Dhiraj Kumar
Cellular Immunology

Shashi Kumar
Metabolic Engineering

Asif Mohmmed
Parasite Cell Biology

Ranjan Nanda
Translational Health

Neeti Sanan-Mishra
Plant RNAi Biology

Amit Sharma
Structural Parasitology

Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek
Plant Stress Biology

Ramesh V. Sonti
Plant-microbe Interactions

Sujatha Sunil
Vector Borne Diseases

Shireesh Srivastava
Systems Biology for Biofuel

Jitendra Thakur
Plant Transcription Regulation

Syed Shams Yazdani
Microbial Engineering

Pawan Malhotra
Arturo Falaschi Emeritus Scientist

M.K. Reddy
Emeritus Scientist

Dinakar M. Salunke
Arturo Falaschi Emeritus Scientist

Sudhir K. Sopory
Emeritus Senior Scientist
Cape Town, South Africa

Stefano Cacciatore
Bioinformatics

Nyaradzo Chigorimbo-Tsikiwa
Infectious Diseases

Lara Donaldson
Plant Systems Biology

Georgia Schafer
Virology – Emerging Viruses

Luiz Zerbini
Cancer Genomics
















