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Faculty of SRM academy :
The department has well-qualified and experienced faculty, who have expertise in the areas of computational biology, systems biology, genomics, proteomics, pharmacogenomics and medical informatics. The department is supported by dedicated faculty members with interdisciplinary proficiency who strive to enhance their knowledge and share their expertise with students.

Research & consultancy
Research activities help the faculty to intellectually stimulate the young minds. Research in the department is focused on drug designing and development, protein purification and proteomics. Thrust is given for submission of research proposals to funding agencies such as DBT, DST, CSIR and DRDO. Faculty are involved in student projects, internally funded pilot projects, externally funded projects and multi-institutional collaborative projects with research institutions in India and abroad.
Students Research Club fosters innovative ideas of students and encourages student/faculty research publications. Ph.D. program includes research in lead (drug) molecules from microbes and plants, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, probiotics and metabolic engineering.

Careers
Bioinformatics is the most promising and a fast growing sector in life sciences. With the completion of human genome sequencing and the sequencing of various plants, animals and microbes' genomes, bioinformatics is poised to take up the challenges of the post-genomic era and the need for well-trained human resource is greater. There is a huge demand for bioinformaticians in USA, Europe, Australia and India. Presently the US bioinformatics market alone is worth US $7 billion and there will be a 10% annual growth in the bioinformatics market in the years to come.