Ashokpatel | IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi
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Research Areas

Virology (Chikungunya, Dengue, SARS-CoV-2, Human papilloma virus HPV) Cancer (Breast Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Cervical Cancer) Vaccines for Viruses (Chikungunya, Dengue etc) Antiviral drugs Diagnostics for Virus detection Diagnostics for cancer Anticancer drugs Chromatin Remodelling

Biosketch

Ashok completed his schooling under the CBSE Board, followed by a B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. in Physics from the Department of Physics, BHU, Varanasi, India. He completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, in 2009. He received training at the University of Sheffield, UK; the University of Groningen, The Netherlands; and the University of Oulu, Finland. He gained postdoctoral experience at the Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, USA, during 2009-2013. He joined IIT Delhi as an Assistant Professor in 2014 and is currently serving as a Professor since 2026 at the School of Biological Sciences, IIT Delhi. Ashok's basic training is in structural biology, molecular biology, biophysics, biochemistry, and chromatin biology. As an independent investigator at IIT Delhi, his research is focused on understanding virus pathogenesis, identifying antivirals against virus infections, vaccine development, and anticancer drug development.

Awards and Recognitions
  • Ramalingaswami Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology, India, (2014-2019).
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) Germany; 2009: Travel grants fellowship; to perform training under Prof Petri Kursula, (01 March-30 May 2009), University of Oulu, Finland.
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) Germany; 2008: Travel grants fellowship; worked with Prof B.W.Dijkstra (29 March-28 June 2008), University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) Germany; 2007: Travel grants fellowship; worked with Prof David W.Rice, during 15 January to 14 April 2007, University of Sheffield, UK.
  • Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR, India (Oct 2006- Dec 2009).
  • Junior Research Fellowship from CSIR, India (Oct 2004 – Oct 2006).
  • "National Eligibility Test" (NET) - 2004 for Junior research fellowship (JRF) Physical Sciences from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India (Qualified for Shyama Prasad Mukherjee fellowship test).
  • Qualified "Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)-2004" in Physical Sciences with 99.14 percentile and secured an overall India rank of 24th.
  • Qualified in "Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) 2004" in Physical Sciences with 92 percentile.
Recent Publications
  • Bhardwaj M, Anjum R, Hariprasad P, Ashok Kumar Patel*. Allosteric mutations impact the catalytic activity and oligomeric state of the main protease of coronavirus. Int J Biol Macromol. 2025 May;309(Pt 1):142765. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.142765. Epub 2025 Apr 2. PMID: 40185429.
  • Gupta, S., Gupta, S., Singh, Ashok Kumar Patel*. Role of Acorus calamus extract in reducing exosome secretion by targeting Rab27a and nSMase2:a therapeutic approach for breast cancer. Mol Biol Rep 52, 124 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-024-10203-6
  • Bhardwaj, M., Anjum, R., Hariprasad, P., Ashok Kumar Patel*. (2025). Allosteric mutations impact the catalytic activity and oligomeric state of the main protease of coronavirus. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 142765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.142765
  • Gupta, I., Ashok Patel*. (2024). Deciphering HMGB1: Across a spectrum of DNA and nucleosome dynamics. Cell Biology International. Volume 49, Issue 3, March 2025, Pages 235-249 https://doi.org/10.1002/cbin.12260
  • Gupta, S., Prem, R., Sethy, C., Shrivastava, S., Singh, M., Yadav, P., Huddar, V., Prajapati, P., Roy, A., Sundd, M.,& Ashok Patel*. (2024). Exploring Anticancer Properties of Medicinal Plants against Breast Cancer by Downregulating Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 72(17), 9717–9734. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.3c07565
  • Chawla, Yadya M., Prashant Bajpai, Keshav Saini, Elluri Seetharami Reddy, Ashok Patel, Kaja Murali-Krishna, and Anmol Chandele. 2024. "Regional Variation of the CD4 and CD8 T Cell Epitopes Conserved in Circulating Dengue Viruses and Shared with Potential Vaccine Candidates"; Viruses 16, no. 5: 730. https://doi.org/10.3390/v16050730
  • Rohit Sagar, Siva Raghavendhar, Vineet Jain, Naushad Khan, Anmol Chandele, Ashok Patel, Murali Kaja, Pratima Ray, Neera Kapoor, Viremia and clinical manifestations in acute febrile patients of Chikungunya infection during the 2016 CHIKV outbreak in Delhi, India, Infectious Medicine, 2024, 100088, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imj.2024.100088
  • Gaurav N, Kumar S, Raghavendhar S, Tripathi PK, Gupta S, Arya R, Ashok Patel*. Transcriptome analysis of Huh7 cells upon Chikungunya virus infection and capsid transfection reveals regulation of distinct cellular and metabolic pathways. Virology. 2024 Jan;589:109953. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2023.109953. Epub 2023 Nov 28. PMID: 38043141.