Sujit Jangam

Sujit Jangam

Sujit Jangam

NAT Team Member
Graduate student (IBIS)
M.Tech & B.Tech, Biotechnology & Biochemical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

Phone: (847) 467-0660
Fax:
E-mail: s-jangam@northwestern.edu


Research Interests

I am interested in exploring and developing novel technologies for HIV diagnosis in infants. In developing countries, infant diagnosis is typically done at 12 months post-birth using inexpensive immunoassays. Infants are subject to anti-retroviral therapy (ARV) until the first test. This increases cost to society and increases infant mortality due to late detection of HIV. Nucleic acid tests are a lot more sensitive and can be used at 6 weeks of age but are very expensive. Furthermore, no point-of-care device has been developed that can detect proviral DNA immediately after sample collection in the field. I am working on the development of such a test for the detection of HIV proviral DNA in infants in resource limited settings such as countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The goal is to develop a test that is both inexpensive and quick using a combination of molecular biology and engineering design.


Selected Publications

  1. Jangam, S.R., Chakraborti, M. & Ghosh, A.K. (2007). “Molecular cloning and characterization of segments 8 and 11 of A.mylitta CPV”, International Journal of Virology Volume 3(2), 60-72.
  2. Jangam, S.R. & Chakraborti, N. (2007). “A novel algorithm for DNA sequence alignment using ant colony optimization and genetic algorithms”, Applied Soft computing Volume 7(3), 1121-1130.
  3. Kukkonen, S., Jangam, S.R. & Chakraborti, N. (2007). “Solving the DNA sequence alignment problem with generalized differential evolution 3 (GDE3)”, Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) (In press).