Urmi Bajpai

Urmi Bajpai has a Ph.D. in Microbiology from University of Delhi, South Campus. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Science at Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, and the former Deputy Dean of Research at the Research council in University of Delhi, 2017-2018.

First in-charge of the department of Biomedical Science at ANDC; Urmi has 21 years of teaching experience. She pioneered the undergraduate research program in the college in 2006. She is Ph.D. supervisor and has been the Principal Investigator of several research projects funded by DBT, CSIR-OSDD, DU, DST (IEDC & SERB) and has established a well-equipped molecular biology laboratory in the college. Her team has been working towards i) finding new TB drug candidates with Mur enzymes in the cell wall biosynthesis pathway of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as the targets. They aim for finding drug candidates foe multi-target therapy; ii) exploring the potential of mycobacteriophages and their lytic enzymes (Endolysins) as the source of anti-bacterial agents. She is the co-founder of International Bacteriophage Research Consortium (IBRC) with Open Health System Laboratories (OHSL), USA.