Funded Research Projects at SRM...

SRM University is actively involved in various funded projects, and has received over Rs 5.7 Crores from various governmental agencies such as DST, DBT and others. Following are the departments engaged in funded research projects and the details:

Year 2009 - 10 (Till Date)

S. No	Name of the Project	Amount Sanctioned (Rs. In lakhs)	Funding Agency	Amount received till 31 August 2009 (Rs. In lakhs)	Principal Investigator	Departments involved with the project
1.	Near Ground RF Propagation Studies for Wireless Sensor Communications	37.84	Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India	-	Dr. T. Rama Rao	RADMIC - Radio Communications & MillimeterWave Research Center, Department of Telecommunication Engineering
2.	Identification of efflux protein inhibitors to Gram negative Organisms using bioinformatics tools and in vitro analysis and crystallographic studies of target membrane protein inhibitor complexes	25.34	DBT-India AIST-Japan bilateral project	12.24	Dr. Waheeta Hopper School of Bioengineering	Bioinformatics
3.	Neureendocrine Immune interactions in mammary tumorigenesis	40.25	Department of Biotechnology	25.66	Dr. S. Thyagarajan School of Bioengineering	Biotechnology
4.	Developing an integrated (Vertical + Horizontal flow) constructed wetland system for treating waste water from small community	15.59	SERC-DST Fast Track for Young Scientists	-	Dr. Deeptha Thattai School of Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering
Total		119.02		37.90

Year 2008 - 09

S. No	Name of the Project	Amount Sanctioned (Rs. In lakhs)	Funding Agency	Amount received till 31 August 2009 (Rs. In lakhs)	Principal Investigator	Departments involved with the project
1.	Uncertainly analysis of ground water contamination problem using interval analysis	10.92	BRNS	7.15	Prof. K. Ganesan Dept. of Mathematics	Mathematics
2.	DST-FIST	130.00	Department of Science and Technology	58.00	Prof. K. Ramasamy School of Bioengineering	Biotechnology Biomedical Engg. Food & Process Engg. Chemical Engg. Chemical Engg. Genetic Engg.
3.	Dietary Intakes of Naturally occurring radio nuclides like thorium, uranium, polonium, postassium - 40 in high radiation background areas of Manavalakurichy, TN	27.80	BRNS	16.86	S. Subashini School of Bioengineering	Biotechnology
4.	Evaluation of vetiver for uptake and immobilization of uranium and residual radionuclides in mill tailings soil and post treated effluents	35.76	BRNS	22.92	MRs. M. Pandima Devi School of Bioengineering	Biotechnology
5.	Naturally occurring radio nuclides transfer factor (BCF) on aquatic flora and fauna in Nagarjuna Sagar dam near proposed uranium mining site	50.42	BRNS	28.68	Dr. Kantha D. Arunachalam School of Bioengineering	Biotechnology
6.	Expression of Interest for External Conducting Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATSD-India), 2008	25.06	Ministry of Health & Family Welfare GOI	10.00	Prof. Ch. Satish Kumar School of Public Health	Public Health
7.	Development and properties of fly ash and bagasse ash based Geo Polymer concrete	0.89	Tamil nadu State Council for Science and technology	-	Dr. P. Suresh Kumar School of Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering
8.	Genetic engineering of clostridium thermoclellum ATCC 27405 for effective conversion of lingo celluloses to ethanol	17.00	SERC-DST Fast Track	-	Dr. Lilly Saleena School of Bioengineering
Total		297.85		143.61

Year 2007 - 08

S. No	Name of the Project	Amount Sanctioned (Rs. In lakhs)	Funding Agency	Amount received till 31 August 2009 (Rs. In lakhs)	Principal Investigator	Departments involved with the project
1.	Modulation of Neural Immune Signaling by estrogen in reproductive again	37.44	Department of Science and Technology	31.00	Dr. S. Thayarajan School of Biotechnology	Biotechnology
2.	Development of Nanofilters for water purification and supported nanoparticles for the removal of Voltaile Organic Compounds from contaminated	120.84	Department of Biotechnology	106.36	MR. C. Gopalakrishnan Nanotechnology	Nanotechnology Research Center and Development of Microbiology
3.	Prospecting of Genes for Oil Biosyenthesis from Jatropha Curcas: Gene Discovery by pooled probe Hybridization and Large Scale EST Sequencing of Normalised cDNA Library from Developing Seeds	27.94	Department of Biotechnology	36.80	Dr. M. Parani School of Biotechnology	Genetic Engineering
4.	Equipping Laboratory	50.00	Ministry of Food Processing	-	Dr. K. Ramasamy School of Biotechnology	Food and process Engg.
Total		236.22		174.16

Year 2006 - 07

S. No	Name of the Project	Amount Sanctioned (Rs. In lakhs)	Funding Agency	Amount received till 31 August 2009 (Rs. In lakhs)	Principal Investigator	Departments involved with the project
1.	Rhizosphere Microbial Community for Sulfur transformation in Rice	30.13	Department of Biotechnology	26.01	Dr. K. Ramasamy School of Bioengineering	Biotechnology Microbiology
2.	Career Award for Young Teachers	10.50	AICTE	7.70	MS. Shanthi Prince Electronics and Communication Engineering	Electronics and Communication Engineering
Total		40.63		33.71