IIT Bombay Alum Karthik Shekhar Wins Camille Dreyfus Award
IIT Bombay‑educated Karthik Shekhar, a professor at UC Berkeley, wins the Camille Dreyfus Teacher‑Scholar Award for pioneering work on bioelectricity and neural communication.
IIT Bombay
1958, Mumbai- Second IIT on 545-acre Powai campus near lakes. UNESCO-assisted, it leads in computer science, quantum research, and entrepreneurship. Hosts 14,000+ students, 65,000 alumni, and recent sustainability center with Honeywell.
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IIM Mumbai and IIT Bombay Launch India’s First Digital Science UG Program
IIM Mumbai partners IIT Bombay to offer 70-seat UG program in Digital Science & Business Management via JEE Main, at ₹6-7L/year.
IIT Bombay Alum’s Startup Barred from $400M Rival’s Conference Sparks Debate
Lab0 founder Lakshya Gupta publicly calls out Rocketlane CEO for excluding his YC-backed startup from Propel event over competition.
IIT Mandi TIH Pioneers Multimodal AI
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IIT Goa Partners with EcoEx
IIT Goa and EcoEx ink MoU to fuse academia with industry expertise, driving research, innovation, and training for India’s green goals and net-zero ambitions.
IIT Bombay Techie Slams Bengaluru Life
An IIT Bombay grad’s post contrasts Bengaluru’s negotiation-heavy interactions with Mumbai’s easygoing service, igniting a fiery online debate among netizens.
IIT Bombay’s DNA Shields Revive Failing Antibiotics
IIT Bombay scientists develop DNA aptamers blocking bacterial resistance enzymes, reviving common antibiotics to fight deadly drug-resistant infections.
IIT Bombay’s Patented Gasifier from Leaf Waste
IIT Bombay has developed an in‑house biomass gasification system that converts campus leaf waste into clean cooking fuel, cutting LPG use and carbon emissions while boosting energy resilience.
CBDT Grants Tax-Exempt Status to IIT Bhilai, IIT Bombay, and Rubber Research Institute
CBDT Notifications 40-43/2026 approve IIT Bhilai, IIT Bombay, and Indian Rubber Materials Research Institute for tax-deductible donations under IT Act Section 35(1)(ii).
IIT Bombay pioneers DNA aptamer strategy to restore antibiotic effectiveness against resistant bacteria
IIT Bombay researchers Prof Ruchi Anand and Prof P I Pradeepkumar developed DNA aptamers – short synthetic nucleic acid strands – to block bacterial resistance enzymes, resensitizing drug-resistant pathogens to existing antibiotics. Unlike developing new drugs, this practical approach leverages known antibiotic safety profiles while addressing the global antimicrobial resistance crisis through stable, modifiable aptamers.
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