Appointment

IIT Guwahati is happy to welcome Rakesh Kumar, Ph.D, to the Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology as Assistant Professor in September 2026.

Dr. Kumar’s specialisations include

• Diagnostic development

• Protein engineering

• Blood and CSF biomarkers

• Neurobiology and neurodegeneration

• Protein biochemistry and biophysics

• Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease research

Dr. Kumar joins IIT Guwahati with extensive research experience in neurodegenerative diseases and protein biophysics. He has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, where his research has focused on amyloid fibrils, molecular chaperones and diagnostic assays for neurodegenerative diseases. He has also received multiple research grants as Principal Investigator, including an INR 1.19 crore grant from ANRF as a Ramanujan Fellow.

Dr. Kumar completed his PhD in Biosciences from IIT Bombay in 2019. His PhD research focused on the aggregation of α-synuclein associated with Parkinson’s disease and the development of a novel metal catalyst. He completed his MTech in Biomedical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2014 and his MSc in Biotechnology from the University of Calicut in 2012.

Dr. Kumar has published 33 peer-reviewed research articles and has two patents to his name. His research has appeared in journals including Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

The Institute welcomes Dr. Kumar and wishes him the very best for a fulfilling and impactful career at IIT Guwahati.