Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras
Chennai, India
Joined May 2019
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Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
Happy to share poster for our upcoming Cancer conference @ IIT Madras from Feb 4-6th 2027....please register using the link...looking forward to an wonderful meeting... Registration Link: conf.code.iitm.ac.in/conf/Ca… @PradhanLab @NCTB_IITM @iitmbt
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
Delighted to share our work on physical confinement-driven cell-cycle regulation, now published in @NatureComms
📜tinyurl.com/3yv8y2a8
It was led by @padmanabh97 & @Mridul_Gautam01 with @bagade_nikita18 @ESoftbio @NCBS_Bangalore & collab with Dr Sunil Laxman @DBT_inStem
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Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
Jus Brilliant 👌🏽
Thank you very much for writing this dear @_SandeepGoyal_
Thank you to Biopatrika team for highlighting our research!
#researcherspotlight Indira Priyadarshani Patra @patra_indira from Dr. Shantanu Pradhan @PradhanLab lab at @iitmbt IIT Madras @iitmadras talks about her work on "Matrix Permissiveness Controls Fibroblast Confinement in 3D Hydrogels" biopatrika.com/academia/rese… via @biopatrika
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
Rabindranath Tagore was the OG Nita Ambani.
Like Antilla, Tagore's house in Jorasanko was the hangout of the rich and famous - like Sukumar Ray, PC Sorcar Sr, etc.
Like Jio University and Vantara, Tagore used his immense wealth to set up a world class interdisciplinary university called Viswa Bharati and the lush green sanctuary called Santiniketan.
Cultural performances at Tagore's properties were no less than the mellifluous and graceful recitals at the NMACC and Antilla today.
Just like Nita Ambani is a world class danseuse, Tagore sang and wrote poetry.
Just like DAIS has produced Beer Biceps, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was educated in the Santiniketan ecosystem.
Just like Nita Ambani, Rabindranath Tagore too traveled extensively around the world, bringing the best back to India.
What is interesting is that the Tagore family's descendants today are loyal servants of Nita Ambani. Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Soha Ali Khan are present at all Antilla events as support staff.
History repeats itself.
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
The countdown begins ⏳ Just 2 days to go for our #EMBO conference on Quantitative Tissue Morphogenesis in Alibaug, India!
An exciting lineup of speakers, a beautiful venue, and post-monsoon greenery 🌿
Follow the conference with #QTIM26
@TIFRScience @TIFR_Bio @EMBO @EMBOPress
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
A lot of us have this “migrant mindset”
People who moved out of their birthplace after finishing school, coz there were no jobs or higher education, develop this muscle memory. Not overtake rashly, or have a staring contest with a driver on the road, or shout at a waiter, or a cabbie, or anyone who’s a localite. The attitude is always of de-escalation, of reconciliation. Might sound cowardly, but this is how they survive. They always look at the positive side, enjoying the fruits. And ignoring the barbs. Such people when they occasionally travel to another alien land, they never have issues, coz they are conditioned to survive. To co-exist.
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
IIT Madras wants faculty to procure 7 lakhs per year in funds to support their postdoc.
This will make it very hard for postdocs in basic sciences to be hired in IITM, as grants are smaller and fewer.
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
🌍 From a Global BioImaging Community to India - A New Chapter Begins!
@IndiaBioImaging is proud to organize its first-ever Train-the-Trainer Course 🇮🇳 in collaboration with @GlobalBioImage @CanadaBioImaging & Light Microscopy Australia.
📍 IIT Hyderabad
📅 18–22 January 2027
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
We are looking for a motivated JRF to join our lab at NCBS and work on exciting questions in cell & developmental biology using C. elegans.
🎓Master’s in Life Sciences
Experience in cell biology & microscopy/imaging preferred. Interested? Send your CV + research interests.
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
How does mechanical force shape life?
🧬 MechBio 2026 is here - India's Mechanobiology Annual Meeting, 2nd edition!
📍 IIT Hyderabad | 🗓️ Oct 12–13
Submit an abstract for a shot at an oral talk slot. Deadline: Aug 25.
🔗 mechbio2026.iith.ac.in/index…
#MechBio2026 #Mechanobiology
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
A colleague in the US once shared, 'There has always been very good theoretical work coming out of India'.
I didn't think of the observation much then, with my minimal insights into how science worked in our country.
I would say today, that a big reason for this is that theoretical work is relatively less infrastructure heavy and required large equipments is often shared (servers, computing systems, so on).
The challenges of doing experimental work in Indian science - a system plagued by purchase orders, tenders, portals, and signatures - increases exponentially with the complexity of the model - think, bacteria to primates!
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
tupac recorded 501 songs, but only 2 became top ten hits.
van gogh painted 2,100 paintings and only sold 1 while he was alive and it was 6 months before he died.
sabrina carpenter released 67 songs and five albums over the course of 10 years before she had her big hit "espresso."
glen powell spent 19 years trying to become an actor before "top gun: maverick" made him a star. 19 solid years.
and connor story spent 8 years waiting tables and he was ready to quit acting for good. and the day he almost got fired, he got an email and he found out that he got the lead actor role in "heated rivalry," the biggest acquired hbo show in history.
and you are giving up because you tried twice? or maybe 10 times?
look, a winner is just a loser that tried one more time and that's just it
winners lose more than losers even try.
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Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
Until 2005, the IIT-JEE gave you marks for wrong answers.
Fully subjective. Handwritten proofs and derivations, graded by IIT professors. Wrong final number with sound logic? Still 7 out of 10.
The Right to Information (RTI) Act of 2005 killed the exam. The JEE system was then shaped more by fear of lawsuits than by the hunt for great students.
From 2006: Multiple choice with machine-read OMRs.
Pre-RTI, picked students for how they reasoned.
Post-RTI, for speed and precision under fire.
Shantanu Pradhan retweeted
Nature research paper: Air-permeable hydrogels through viscoelastic phase separation of aerogels
go.nature.com/4ygaxM0
