Anand Ruchi

Anand received her PhD in chemistry from Cornell University and conducted postdoctoral research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2008, and is currently the institute chair professor and head of the Department of Chemistry. Her research integrates X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), and biochemical approaches to study antimicrobial resistance and develop biosensors. Her group designs next-generation therapies using modified antibiotics and combination strategies, enabling structure-guided drug design. Her laboratory also develops biosensors based on allosteric systems to detect phenols and aromatic compounds at ultra-sensitive levels, translating them into portable strip-based and organic electrochemical transistor platforms for rapid, low-cost monitoring. She serves on the advisory boards of ACS Sensors and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and is an associate editor of ACS Biochemistry. She is a DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance senior Fellow, a Sun Pharma Fellow, and a Fellow of several Indian science academies.