The School of Biotechnology was established in 1986 with the financial support from the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. Departments of the University participated for teaching include Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry of IMS; Department of Chemical Engineering of IT, BHU, Departments of Botany, Zoology, Biochemistry, Chemistry and Statistics of the Faculty of Science. The core facult
y of the school was appointed in 1990. At present Institute of Medical Sciences and Institute of Technology, BHU and other Universities & research institutions are actively participating in the schools multidisciplinary teaching program. (Biotechnology) students are admitted annually through a highly competitive national level combined entrance test conducted by the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. students are awarded with fellowship of Rs. 3000/-PM. In the 2010, 2011 and 2012, 19, 18 and 11 students were admitted. The students of the department have an excellent rate of success in national examinations like CSIR-UGC-NET, GATE, DBT-JRF etc and are placed at leading institutes in India and abroad. The faculty members of the School are presently actively engaged in the following areas of research:
a). Cellular and Molecular Immunology of Macrophages;
b). Immunotherapy of cancer and inflammatory diseases;
c).Microbiology of infectious diseases;
d). Enzyme based diagnostics and structure-function relationship;
e). Bacterial gene regulation;
f).Diversity of microbes from extreme environment;
g). Use of molecular markers in gene tagging;
h). Germplasm conservation and propagation. Present strength of faculty: 5+1
Prof. Tripathi
Prof. Sukh Mahendra Singh
Prof. Arvind Mohan Kayastha (Co-ordinator)
Dr. Arvind Kumar
Prof. B. D. Singh (Professor Emeritus)
