Dr. Alok Jain

B.E. (Chemical Eng.), Ph.D., IIT Kanpur (Computational Biology)

Date of Joining: 3rd July, 2020
  • National Games Housing Complex (NGHC) Khelgaon, Hotwar, Ranchi, 835217, Jharkhand, India
  • -
    |
    -

Research Areas

  • Our lab primarily focuses on applying Computational Biophysics/Chemistry, Bioinformatics, and AI-based approaches to investigate, design and develop novel drug candidates targeted toward the therapeutic intervention of cancer-causing biomarkers and Alzheimer's Disease. Other arms of our research group focus on intelligent nanomaterial design for applications in biomedical engineering.
  • Website of the Research Group: Advanced Biocomputing Lab

Work Experience

  • Teaching: 8 Years
  • Research: 15 Years
  • Industry: 15 Years
<!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: ▪️ field--node--title--faculty.html.twig ✅ field--node--title.html.twig ▪️ field--node--faculty.html.twig ▪️ field--title.html.twig ▪️ field--string.html.twig ▪️ field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class=Alok " width="406" height="371" loading="lazy" >

Academic Profile

Award and Honours
Award and Honours

6

Total Award and Honours
Project
Project

4

Total Project

Leadership & Institutional Service

Teaching & Mentorship

Award and Honours

View All

Recipient, Young Scientist Award, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery Society India (2025) - Conferred in recognition of outstanding contributions to Drug Design and Translational Bioinformatics.

Member, National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) - Recognized in 2025 for impactful contributions to Bioscience & Biotechnology.

Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (2024) - Invited to join one of Nature Portfolio’s leading journals.

Current Sponsored Projects

View All
  • Received the SERB-SRG research grant of 2,981,589/- INR for the project “A Multi-scale Simulation-based Approach to Design, Characterize and Optimize the Peptide Based Scaffold for Tissue Engineering Applications” in 2022
  • Jointly written a research project with Prof. Christine Peter at Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) KIT, Germany, and received 3.5 million core hours for the project “Molecular simulations of biological systems” in March, 2015.
  • Received the computing research grant from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (HPC-COVID19 call) equivalent to 760,320/- INR for the project “Anti-viral drug repurposing to inhibit the CoV- 2 entry: A molecular modeling approach targeting ACE-2 and
  • Ramalingaswami Fellowship-2019 from Department of Biotechnology, India, and received the 11,350,000/- INR for the project “In-silico design and validation of boronic acid-based molecules for the treatment of colorectal cancer: Computer-aided hit to lead d