HITS-B.Tech. Bio-technology - Top B.Tech Biotechnology Engineering Colleges in Chennai | Top 10 Biotech Engineering Colleges in Chennai

About the Department

Bio-technology is a highly interdisciplinary subject encompassing biological sciences, process engineering and technology. The scope and application of the subject is manifold, spanning from synthesizing genetically modified food, drought resistant crops in agricultural sciences; tissue engineering, drug designing in medical field and also in areas such as bioinformatics and aquatic living systems. Besides, the subject also involves studies on public policy planning, such as use of genetically modified food and ethical issues involved with it, tampering the crop/gene to make them disease resistant and embryonic stem cell technology to name a few. The versatility of the subject is in understanding how living organisms work at a microscopic level and to find remedies/solution to make living things to work in a way that we expect. Unlike other engineering subjects, Bio-technology deals with tailoring the living systems, whose outcome might turn benignant or malignant.

Duration : 4 Years

Vision & Mission

Vision

To achieve the pinnacle of success through quality education, research and entrepreneurship in emerging areas of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Mission

To provide innovative education empowered with excellent technical andleadership skills
To create state-of-the-art infrastructure for research and training, promote scientific discovery and development by fostering relationship with research organizations and industries

Scope

For a developing country such as India, the agricultural community is dependent on regular monsoon rains for good yield. With global warming, it has been predicted that rain fall patterns may be erratic. To be dependent on single natural factor to help in good agricultural productivity is a risk, which is not worth taking. Instead, crops can be made adaptable to the extremes of weather such as drought resistant seeds, moisture retaining crops; all these can be possible with help of Bio-technology. Besides, the use of pesticides can be also made redundant, if pest resistant seeds can be developed. Similarly, in medical arena, gene therapy can help people to reduce the risk of preventing hereditary diseases. Stem cell technology is one of the key outcomes of biotechnology and molecular biology. With broader scope of the subject, there is a strong potential for employment opportunities in Corporate/Government organizations at research and manufacturing level. The subject keeps evolving with time, which is a stronger impetus for the students to go in for higher education.

Employment Opportunities

Corporate and public R&D organizations recruit biotechnology personnel in good numbers. As the employers realize the need for indigenous development of ideas domestically, they look for good quality personnel to ramp up their operations. Besides, research organizations also see good scope for new and improved products and processes in medical, agricultural fields; they are on a constant look out for motivated personnel. Contract Research organizations in pharmaceutical and Biotech industry recruit graduating college students; they are trained and inducted in the work place. Dupont, Biocon, Dow Chemicals, Dr.Reddy's laboratories are some of the companies that actively hire biotech personnel.

Eligibility criteria

Students who have studied maths, physics and chemistry with biology/computer science at the higher secondary schooling level, are eligible for a B.Tech in Bio-technology. As biology is taught from a level from where anyone can comprehend; students, who have had a non-biology subject apart from maths, physics and chemistry will not be at a disadvantage.

Specialization

Genetic Engineering

Curriculum & Syllabus

Our Faculty

S.NO	FACULTY NAME	DESIGNATION	PROFILE
1	Dr. Vivekanandan B	Associate Professor & HOD	View
2	Dr. Baby Joseph	Professor & Dean Research	View
3	Dr. Anitha A	Professor	View
4	Dr. Saravanan A	Associate Professor	View
5	Dr. Govindarajan R	Assistant Professor (S.G)	View
6	Dr. Sivashankar R	Assistant Professor (S.G)	View
7	Dr. Sakthidasan J	Assistant Professor (S.G)	View
8	Dr. Krithika R	Assistant Professor (S.G)	View
9	Dr. R. Anitha	Assistant Professor	View
10	Mr. Vijay Samuel	Assistant Professor (S.G)	View
11	Ms. Lakshmi Sundeep	Assistant Professor	View

Industrial Visit

Vistied Frontier Medville at Chennai

Visited Eppendorf at Chennai

Visited CPCRI at Mangalore

Visited PAR Active Technologies at Chennai

Recent Publications

S.No.	Author	Title of the Paper	Journal Name	Journal Details
2018	Dr. D Jini	Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) as an Alternative Stratify for Plant Stress Tolerance	Acta Scientific Microbiology	(ISSN: 2581-3226)
2019	Dr. Evy Alice Abigail	Biochar based nanofibers: fabrication, characterization and application as 2,4-dichlorophenoxycetic and nanoformulation for sustained release	3 Biotech	2019 Aug;9(8):317
2019	Dr. R Sivashankar	Sequestration of methylene blue dye from aqueous solution by magnetic biocomposite: Three level Box–Behnken experimental design optimization and kinetic studies	Separation Science and Technology	doi.org/10.1080/01496395.2019.1607382
2019	Dr. D Jini	Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from Allium cepa and its in vitro antidiabetic activity	Materials Today: Proceedings	doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2019.07.672
2019	Dr. R Sivashankar	Investigation of Fermentation Condition for production enhancement of polyhydroxyalkanoate	Journal of Microbiology Biotechnology and Foodsciences	Accepted
2019	Dr. K Vijayraghavan	A perspective on energy cycling from waste to biofuel - Rendering of non-edible chicken fat and conv	Indian journal of environmental protection	Accepted
2019	Dr. D Jini	Preparation of herbal curd with Gymnema sylvestre and its characterization for the treatment of liver cancer	Journal of Food Process Engineering	doi.org/10.1111/jfpe.13338
2019	Dr. D Jini	Use of Phytohormones in Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance to Rice	Advances in Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance	doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814332-2.00031-9

Placement Details

PLACED COMPANY	NAME OF THE STUDENT	PASS OUT YEAR
Al Arabi company	Lamya Roslyn	2019
MiramedAjuba	Bhumika Sharma	2019
SoftgelHealthcare Pvt. Ltd.,	JesiyaSowmini	2019
Idbi	Sharmila Srinivasan	2018
Idbi	RajyalakshmiBalaji	2018
BioconLtd	NivedhaBrabagaran	2018

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