About Us

MR-MBRC Team

Dr. Kapila Kumar

Director, MBRC, MRIIRS Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, SET, MRIIRS

  • Kapila is a passionate researcher who is also interested in learning new advancements.
  • Experience: Dr. Kapila has 8 years of Teaching and 14 years of Research experience.
  • Research domains: Synthetic biology, Genomics, Molecular Virology, Biotechnology.
  • Kapila has over 20 publications in reputed journals
  • Her team won bronze medal in iGEM 2020.
  • She received OUTSTANDING WOMEN award by VIWA Foundation in 2022.
Dr. Jayant Maini

Deputy Director, MBRC, MRIIRS Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, SET, MRIIRS

  • Maini is a geneticist with experience in developmental and disease epigenetics and epigenomics
  • Research domains: Epigenetics and Epigenomics.
  • Maini is a voracious reader and loves poetry, art, literature and history.
Dr. Prachie Sharma

Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, SET, MRIIRS

  • She has over 8 years of research as well as teaching experience.
  • She has an active experience in innovation projects.
  • She has 7 research articles and 3 patents, 2 copyrights to her name.
  • Prachie is Director at Parimukh Innovations Pvt. Ltd. which is actively trying to implement the product at Govt. level.
  • Research Domains: Molecular Virology, Bioinformatics, Agricultural sciences, Environmental sciences, Food sciences.
Ms. Hasmeet Kaur

Research Assistant Department of Biotechnology SET, MRIIRS

  • Pursuing Doctotral Studies in industry collaboration with Foresight Biotech Pvt. Ltd., Noida.
  • MSc. in Human Genomics from Panjab University.
  • 1.5 years of experience in molecular diagnostic testing lab.
  • Currently working on “Development of Biosensor using Synthetic Biology” and “Proliferation Control Strategies to Improve Productivity of Industrially Relevant Cell Lines”