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| S.No | Name of of the PI/ Co-PI/Name of the person holding the Chair | Department | Title of the research project, endowments, Research Chairs | Name of the funding agaency | Duration | Year of award or sanction | Amount in INR. |
| 1 | Dr. Purabi Deka Bose | MBBT | Delineation of the Chromosomal and molecular endocrinological alterations leading to recurrent pregnancy loss in north-east | DBT | 3 years | 2016 | 7473000.00 |
| 2 | Dr. Thounaojan Thorny Chanu | Botany | Nano zinc Mediated regulation of Arsenic stress in rice (oryza sativa L.) | DST | 2 years | 2017 | 3479780.00 |
| 3 | Dr. Ankur Kanti Guha | Chemistry | Theoretical studies on metal free activation of small unreactive molecules | DST-SERB | 3 years | 2017 | 2885000.00 |
| 4 | Dr. Abdul Wahab | Chemistry | Electrochemical and photophysical studies of singlet fission materials based on indigo derivatives | DST-SERB | 3 years | 2017 | 4105000.00 |
| 5 | Dr. Mausumi Ganguly | Chemistry | Isolation and characterization of potent anti-fertility compounds obtained from a few folklore medicinal plants of North east India and study of their mode of action | DBT | 3 years | 2017 | 4901000.00 |
| 6 | Dr. Mayuri Chabukdhara | EBWS | Investigation of heavy metals in soil-rice systems in northeast India: food safety implications and evaluation of best management practices | DST-SERB | 3 years | 2017 | 2525000.00 |
| 7 | Dr. Amiya Baruah | Geology | Role of multiphase flows in controlling the dynamics of melts and other geological fluids: a theoretical and experimental investigation | DST-SERB | 3 years | 2017 | 5067000.00 |
| 8 | Dr. Ritu Thaosen | History | The Socio Cultural life of the Mizor: A folkloristic observation | National Security Council, Govt.of India | 2 years | 2017 | 360000.00 |
| 9 | Dr. Nripanka Saikia | Physics | Centre for Radio Astronomy (Observation of Solar Microwave Radio Emission in S-Band and its correlation with Solar Energetic Phenomena) | ASTEC | 3 years | 2017 | 3200000.00 |
| 10 | Dr. Anjana Singha Naorem | Zoology | Study and comparision of heteropteran diversity in two areas of Guwahati region | DBT | 2 years | 2017 | 800000.00 |
| 11 | Dr. Maishnam Rustam Singh | Anthropology | Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiencyamong Three Tribes of Assam, India and its significance for Antimalarial Therapy | NER-BPMC, DBT | 3 years | 2018 | 3559000.00 |
| 12 | Dr. Manjil Hazarika | Archaeology | Unfolding of Quaternary History & Associated Geoarchaeological Remains of Tripura, Northeastern India | 36th International Geological Congress (IGC) | 2 years | 2018 | 700000.00 |
| 13 | Dr. Gargi Borgohain | Chemistry | Molecular dynamics simulation technique to understand structural and functional changes during processing of food proteins | DST | 5 years | 2018 | 3500000.00 |
| 14 | Dr. Rakhee Kalita Moral | English | Where women make another tribe. Mobilisations and Narratives from Nagaland | HOB, IIAS-Mellan Program | 3 years | 2018 | 1379000.00 |
| 15 | Dr. Gitika Thakuria | Geography | Geoenvironmental Problem & its impact on sustainable development of lower Kulsi river basin, Assam | SERB | 3 years | 2018 | 2874000.00 |
| 16 | Prof. (Retd.) B. N. Goswami | Physics | PUSHING THE FRONTIER OF MONSOON PREDICTABILITY | SERB | 5 years | 2018 | 13800000.00 |
| 17 | Dr. Sukanta Deb | Physics | Variable stars as Astrophysical Laboratories | CSIR | 3 years | 2018 | 2050000.00 |
| 18 | Department of Physics | Physics | Instrument Devlopment Service centre | ASTEC | 4 years | 2018 | 4190000.00 |
| 19 | Dr. Tiluttama Baruah | Anthropology | Endangered Dialects and Culture with Special Reference to the Tai Phakes of Assam | ICSSR | 2 years | 2019 | 400000.00 |
| 20 | Dr. Akashi Baruah | Chemistry | Milk quality assessment, with special emphasis on melamine in Guwahati and neighboring areas and development of a colorimetric detection system for melamine | DST Women Scientist | 1 year | 2019 | 1178000.00 |
| 21 | Dr. Leena Borah | EBWS | Investigation of the impacts of climate change on food and livelihood security of Assamese farmers and their adaptive responses- a study from North East India | ICSSR | 1 year | 2019 | 400000.00 |
| 22 | Dr. Leena Borah | EBWS | Estimation of greenhouse gas fluxes (methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide) from Deepor Beel, a Ramsar wetland site of Assam, and identification of associated environmental factors | SERB | 3 years | 2019 | 5218000.00 |
| 23 | Dr. Preetee Sharma | History | An Ethnographical Survey of Pottery Traditions From the Lower Brahmaputra Velly (Kamrup, Nalbari, Goalpara and Dhubri Districts of Assam) | ICHR | 2 years | 2019 | 200000.00 |
| 24 | Dr. Dimpy Mahanta | Psychology | Motivational inputs, stress management and mental well being of the field staff of Kaziranga National Park | Dept. of Forest | 1 year | 2019 | 150000.00 |
| 25 | Dr. Indrani Sarma (PI), Prof. Chandan Kumar Sharma (Co-PI) | Sociology | Forests & Forest Dwellers in Assam: searching for a sustainable relationship | ICSSR - IMPRESS | 2 years | 2019 | 800000.00 |
| 26 | Dr. Akalesh Kumar Verma | Zoology | Study of traditionally used dyes yielding plants for staining cells and cellular components and identification thereof: An eco- friendly and non- toxic alternative method | ASTEC | 2 years | 2019 | 140000.00 |
| 27 | Dr. Karobi Saikia (PI), Dr. Rezina Ahmed (Co-PI) | Zoology | Biodiversity, Nutritive Value and Conservation Strategies of Aquatic Insects in the Wetland Ecosystem of Manipur | DBT (NER-BPMC) | 3 years | 2019 | 2300000.00 |
| 28 | Dr. Apurba Kumar Barman | Chemistry | The missing link in gold nanocluster research: systematic study on the role of ligands in gold nanocluster luminescence | DST | 3 years | 2020 | 3612000.00 |
| 29 | Dr. Daisy Das | Economics | Crop loss and farmers vulnerability to poverty in Assam: The role of institutions and safety nets | ICSSR | 2 years | 2020 | 1100000.00 |
| 30 | Dr. Bibhuti Gogoi | Geology | On the origin of rhyolites and associated granites and dolerites in the Proterozoic Shillong Basin | SERB | 3 years | 2020 | 3392000.00 |
| 31 | Department of Mathematics | Mathematics | DST Fist Program 2020 | DST | 5 years | 2020 | 2800000.00 |
| 32 | Dr. Merry Baruah Bora | English | Translation of the Worksheets in One Earth One Home & Ek Prithvi Book Review | WWF-India | 2 months | 2020 | 49000.00 |
| 33 | Dr. Teresa L Khawzawl, Dr. Gangotri Bhuyan (Pragjyotish College, GU) | Anthropology | ICSSR Special Call for Studies Focusing on Social Science Dimensions of Covid-19 Corona Virus Pandemic | ICSSR | 10 months | 2021 | 300000.00 |
| 34 | Dr. Manjil Hazarika | Archaeology | Ancient Pragjyotisha-Kamarupa: An Archaeological Investigation | Indian Council of Historical Research | 2 years | 2021 | 400000.00 |
| 35 | Dr. Manjil Hazarika | Archaeology | Traditional Metal Technologies in Assam: A Study in Archaeological, Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives | Indian National Commission for History of Science | 1 year | 2021 | 328000.00 |
| 36 | Dr. Hiten Choudhury | CS&IT | Enhancing Security using Lightweight Cryptography in IoT with OneM2M as the Service Platform and 3GPP-5G as the Underlying Communication Network | Ministry of Information Technology (MeitY) | 3 years | 2021 | 4850000.00 |
| 37 | Prof. Kalyan Das | Geography | Floods and impacts on livelihood in rural Assam: To what extent floods have expanded the poverty trap | SITA | 11 months | 2021 | 3095000.00 |
| 38 | Prof. Jiban Jyoti Das | Physics | Attempting to verify our hypothesis to discover new time scale for PIMS | IUAC | 3 years | 2021 | 603000.00 |
| 39 | Dr. Bhabatosh Banik | Chemistry | Stimuli-Responsive Nano-Constructs for targeted delivery and site selective release and activation of combination drugs | DST INSPIRE | 2 years | 2021 | 1350000.00 |
| 40 | Dr. Kangkana Bora | CS&IT | Development of software for automated identification of Gamusa loom type using artificial Intelligence | NECTAR | 1 year | 2021 | 352000.00 |
| 41 | Dr. Manjit Kr. Bhattacharyya | Chemistry | Synthesis, structural studies and anticancer evaluation of coordination compounds of transition metals. | ASTEC, Science, Technology and Climate Change Department, DST, Govt of Assam. | 2 years | 2022 | 760000.00 |
| 42 | Dr. Bhabatosh Banik | Chemistry | Chemodynamic Immunotherapy: Employing ROS generating nanoparticles as immunomodulators to reprogram tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) for cancer therapy. | SERB | 3 years | 2022 | 3476000.00 |
| 43 | Department of Chemistry | Chemistry | DST Fist Program 2022 | DST | 5 years | 2022 | 11000000.00 |
| 44 | Dr. Ujjal Deka Baruah | Geography | Modelling Tropspheric Ozone and Its Precurser Pollutants NO2 and HCHO over South Asia | SERB | 3 years | 2022 | 3548000.00 |
| 45 | Dr. Eeshan Kalita | MBBT | Optimization of nanocatalysts for sustainable conversion of food wastes into value added products | Ministry of Education | 1 year | 2022 | 3647000.00 |
| 46 | Prof. Ganesh Wary | Physics | Development a differentially pumped charged exchange cell for positive ion mass spectrometry (PIMS) | BRNS | 3 years | 2022 | 4970000.00 |
| 47 | Prof. Jiban Jyoti Das | Physics | Production and slowing down of fast neutron beam produced using 15-UD pelletron accelarator and HIRA facility for AD-BNCT investigations at IUAC, Delhi | IUAC | 3 years | 2022 | 1239000.00 |
| 48 | Faculty of Life Sciences | Zoology | DBT-BUILDER - Cotton University Interdisciplinary Life Science Programme for Advance Research and Education | DBT | 5 years | 2022 | 43262000.00 |
| 49 | Dr. Mausumi Ganguly (PI), Dr. Rita Mahanta (Co-PI) | Chemistry | Conservation of elephant corridor and demonstration of alternative livelihood in dihiraproposed reserve forest area by enhancing the livelihood ofthe fringe community using technological intervention and utilizing the local human resource in conservation | DBT | 3 years | 2022 | 4002000.00 |
| 50 | Dr. Sayanika Dutta | MCJMS | Media advocacy and sensitization on child rights | UNICEF | 6 months | 2022 | 2988000.00 |
| 51 | Department of Geology | Geology | DST Fist Program 2022 | DST | 5 years | 2022 | 15000000.00 |
| 52 | Department of Hindi | Hindi | Strengthening of Hindi Section in the Library of Cotton University | Ministry of DONER,NEC | 2 years | 2022 | 3696000.00 |
| 53 | Department of Anthropology | Anthropology | CRPHE-NIEPA Research Project on College Readiness and Student Success in Higher Education in India | CRPHE-NIEPA, New Delhi | 10 months | 2022 | 171000.00 |
| 54 | Dr. Daisy Das (PI), Dr. Rupon Basumatary (Co-PI), Dr. Hemanta Barman (Co-PI) | Economics | Estimation of Farm and Farmers' Income in Assam | Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES), Government of Assam | 10 months | 2022 | 4998000.00 |
| 55 | Dr. Tridib Sarma | Chemistry | Purely organic molecular container based on redox active expanded porphyrin | SERB | 2 years | 2022 | 3252000.00 |
| 56 | Dr. Bhabatosh Banik | Chemistry | Designing Platinum(IV)-based combination therapeutics by conjugating glycolysis inhibitors to Cisplatin | UGC-DAE, CSR, India | 1 year | 2022 | 45000.00 |
| 57 | Dr. Kangkana Bora | CS&IT | AI-based Automated Decision Support System for the Detection and Grading of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma from H&E stained Biopsy (Histopathology microscopic images using Machine Learning, Deep learning, and image processing approach | SERB | 3 years | 2022 | 3350000.00 |
| 58 | Dr. Ratan Das | Geology | Evaluation of geohazard risks due to climatic and geological factors in the Cachar-Tripura-Mizoram (CTM) fold belt of northeast India : A coupled hydromechanical and geotechnical modelling | SERB | 2 years | 2022 | 3300000.00 |
| 59 | Dr. Akalesh Kumar Verma | Zoology | Innovation in colored pearls production, and community mobilization and sensitization for the freshwater pearl culture leading to entrepreneurship development in Northeast India | NECTAR | 2 years | 2022 | 650000.00 |
| 60 | Dr. Debajyoti Barooah | Physics | Radionuclides in minerals of Assam: An assessment on their uses and related health implication | ASTEC | 2 years | 2022 | 512000.00 |
| 61 | Dr. Jitumani Kalita | Physics | Synthesis and development of high sensitivity Photo-sensor for Real-time radiation Dosimetric Applications | UGC-BSR | 2 years | 2022 | 100000.00 |
| 62 | Dr. Mridula Baro | Physics | Development of high flux Neutron Beam Shaping Assembly (BSA) for BNCT applications | UGC-DAE, CSR, India | 1 year | 2022 | 213000.00 |
| 63 | Dr. Narayan Sharma | EBWS | Evaluation of Ecosystem services provided by the wetland and the forests to the local communities in three villages adjoining Deepar Beel, Guwahati. | ASTEC | 3 months | 2022 | 75000.00 |
| 64 | Dr. Debajyoti Barooah | Physics | Measurement of natural radioactivity and associated radiological hazards in rocks and soil from Kopili Fault Zone, Assam | UGC-DAE, CSR, India | 1 year | 2022 | 45000.00 |
| 65 | Dr. Jougathi Basumatary | Archaeology | Old world prehistory | Andrew Sherratt Fund | 6 months | 2023 | 100000.00 |
| 66 | Dr. Manjit Kr Bhattacharyya | Chemistry | Unconventional Structure Guiding Non-Covalent Contacts in Metal-organicCompounds: An Unexplored Zone of Inorganic Crystal Engineering | DST-SERB | 3 years | 2023 | 874000.00 |
| 67 | Dr. Jitumani Kalita | Physics | Synthesis of multilayer inorganic and organic semiconductor thin films for fabrication of selective UV sensing device | UGC-DAE, CSR, India | 1 year | 2023 | 243000.00 |
| 68 | Dr. Anup Kr Nath | Physics | Studies on electrical transport and electrochemical properties of graphitic carbon nitride based 2D nanocomposites | UGC-DAE, CSR, India | 1 year | 2023 | 45000.00 |
| 69 | Dr. Nameirakpam Nirjanta Devi | MBBT | Study of the functional diversity and community dynamics of earthworm gut-microbiota in heavy metal contaminated agricultural soils | DST-SERB | 3 years | 2023 | 1550000.00 |
| 70 | Dr. Ananya Chutia | Geology | Provenance and depositional environment of Yinkiong Group of Eastern Himalayas, Arunachal Pradesh and itsrelationship with Abor volcanics, with special emphasis on chemostratigraphy and economic prospects | DST-SERB | 3 years | 2023 | 2100000.00 |
| 71 | Dr. Merry Baruah Bora | English | Mission Prakriti video translation into Assamese, DTP, editing, voice over, subtitle | WWF-India | 2 months | 2023 | 115000.00 |