Ph.D at SJRI

PhD at SJRI through Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)

SJRI is currently recognized as a Research Centre for the doctoral program by the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE).

Enrolled candidates will be guided by supervisors registered as guides under MAHE. While students will have to conform to the rules and regulations of MAHE, SJRI aims to ensure the highest quality and uniformity in academic standards for all admitted students. To fulfill this aim, students pursuing their doctoral program at SJRI need to follow the Institute’s guidelines.

Interested students can view the prospectus HERE.

The calendar of events for admission into the doctoral program:

Events

Date and Time

Prospectus and online application available on SJRI website

5th May 2023

Last date for submitting online application

31st May 2023

Notification of short-listed candidates for Interview

5th June 2023

Entrance exam  (Syllabus Between 10th June and 15th June 2023

Notification of qualified candidates for interview

20th June 2023

Interview

22nd June and 25th June 2023

Announcement of selected candidates on website

30th June 2023

Joining the doctoral program and fee payment

17th July 2023


To apply, candidates require a certificate of the eligible degree completed.

Vacancies are available for the Doctoral Programme at SJRI for students with UGC-CSIR-NET JRF / ICMR-JRF / DBT-JRF Category 1 Fellowship (with a stipend for a period of 5 years).

Candidates with JRF can apply throughout the year. These admissions are dependent on available positions with faculty with periodic interviews held.

  1. PhD JRF link: https://redcap.link/JRFLIVEMAY2023     
    Please do click here to see the 
    List of Shortlisted JRF Candidates
  2. PhD Non-JRF link: https://redcap.link/NonJRFLiveMay2023     
    Please do click here to see the 
    List of Shortlisted Non-JRF Candidates

    Final list of Provisionally Selected Candidates
     

Details of available PhD seats:

Division

Name of guides

Area of research and details

Number of students who have qualified for junior research fellowship with stipend (UGC-CSIR NET/DBT/ICMR) or equivalent

Number of students without fellowship

Total number of proposed students (Fellowship+ Non fellowship)

Eligibility (Qualifying degree) restrictions if any due to nature of proposed research

Biostatistics

 

Dr. Tinku Thomas

Survey data Analysis and Multilevel Modelling

 

0

1

1

Master’s/MPhil in Statistics or Biostatistics

Dr. Santu Ghosh

Quantitative Methods for Public Health Nutrition.

0

1

1

Epidemiology and Population Health

Dr. Prem Mony

Epidemiology – Maternal & Child Health (or) Non-communicable diseases

Public Health – Preventive Medicine, Health systems research

1

 

0

 

1

MD (Community Medicine or any other specialization); or MBBS+MPH

Health and Humanities

Dr. Manjulika Vaz

Public engagement and Biomedical Research, Public Health Ethics, Health and Humanities.

2

0

2

MD in Community Medicine/General Medicine. Master’s or MPhil in Public Health, Sociology, Psychology, Public Policy, Anthropology, Social Work, Nursing, Bioethics, Law

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nutrition

Dr. Rebecca Kuriyan Raj

Public Health Nutrition

1

 

1

 

 

2

 

Master’s in life sciences

Master’s or MPhil in Food Science and Nutrition/ Public health and epidemiology

Dr. Arpita Mukhopadhyay

Biological Sciences in Public Health (Molecular metabolism, Molecular and cell biology, Molecular nutrition, Molecular physiology)

2

0

2

Master’s degrees (MSc/MPhil/MPH/MTech) in Natural Sciences including but not restricted to: Biology, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics;

Biochemistry, Medical biochemistry; Genetics, Molecular Biology;

Chemistry)

Master’s degrees (MSc/MPhil/MPH):

Foods and Nutrition;

Public Health and Epidemiology

Dr. Pratibha Dwarakanath

Human Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition, Mother and child nutrition

2

0

2

Master’s in life sciences

Master’s or MPhil in Food Science and Nutrition/ Public health and epidemiology

Mental health and Neurosciences

Dr. Susan Thomas

Mental Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology, Cognitive Neurosciences

0

2

2

Master's/M Phil in Clinical Psychology/Psychology/ Social Work/ Psychiatric Nursing/areas related to Rehabilitation and interested to work in the domain of mental health 

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Dr. Sweta Srivastava

Molecular Biology of Diseases-Molecular characterisation of myeloproliferative neoplasms.

1

0

1

Master’s degrees (MSc/MPhil/MTech/MD in any stream of life sciences (Biology/ Microbiology/ Biotechnology/ Biochemistry/ Medical biochemistry/ Genetics/ Health Sciences) with a minimum of 1-year hands-on work experience in molecular techniques.

Molecular Medicine

Dr. Jyothi S Prabhu

Cancer, Biological pathways, Hormonal regulation of cancer, Molecular oncology, Cell biology

2

0

2

Masters in Life sciences involving Biological science

Dr. Neha Vyas

Cancer Biology or Neural development

1

1

2

Masters in any area under biology or life sciences disciplines. Other candidates with training and experience in other scientific areas and keen in applying a multidisciplinary approach to understand biological processes will be considered too.

For any further queries, please do write to admissions@sjri.res.in

PS: Applications may be rejected without assigning any reasons thereof.