RIBB - Research Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology

06/02/2026

The ICBB Team is delighted to welcome its guests as we celebrate 10 years of ICBB in Pokhara. We look forward to an engaging meeting.

27/01/2026

Celebrating 10 years of advocacy in Nepal with ICBB! 🚀 Join us in Pokhara next week as we welcome guests, speakers, students, and researchers from around the world.

See you there!

27/01/2026

- Pokhara

Organizing team would like to welcome our Invited Speaker Dr. Deegendra Khadka for the session Human Health.

Deegendra Khadka received a PhD degree from Inha University, South Korea in 2012. Since then, Dr. Khadka has been working as a senior scientific officer at Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). His academic journey and laboratory experience span molecular biology, enzymology and in vivo studies using animal models.

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

25/01/2026

- Pokhara

Organizing team would like to welcome our Invited Speaker Lokesh Sapkota for the session Environmental Health.

Lokesh Sapkota is currently holding the position of Managing Director at SWAT Labs. He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Management. Currently, he is a PhD Scholar in Environmental Engineering at Kathmandu University. Lokesh Sapkota is an environmental consultant and laboratory professional with expertise in water, wastewater, soil, and environmental quality assessment.

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

21/01/2026

- Pokhara

Organizing team would like to welcome our Invited Speaker Zi-Chen Hsu for the session Animal Health.

Zi-Chen Hsu is currently studying in the Department of Animal Science and Animal Husbandry at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology. In the Reproductive Technology Laboratory, she focuses her research in areas such as in vitro culture of porcine oocytes, stem cell culture, and extracellular vesicle extraction, and also on the nutritional physiology of chickens and pigs.

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

20/01/2026

- Pokhara

Organizing team would like to welcome our Invited Speaker Stefan Harper for the session Human Health going to be organized next year in Pokhara.

Stefan is a PhD student working at the Quadram Institute in the UK. His research focuses on looking at the impact of fibre and nutrient bio-accessibility on the gut microbiota. He has first class bachelor degree in biochemistry and a research masters in biomolecular sciences.

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

31/12/2025

RIBB-MT 2025: Ending year by hosting a Korean Dinner.

This year, our team enjoyed a different journey from Nepal’s lowest point (Jhapa) to the Khumbu region (the Gateway to Everest), gathering indigenous knowledge, studying Nepalese biodiversity, and engaging local communities through science.

Looking forward to 2026, Cheers to all the efforts !!

29/12/2025

Are you looking forward to participate in Human Health Session at ?

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

Organizing team would like to welcome our Invited Speaker Dr. Anurag Adhikari for the session Human Health going to be organized next year in Pokhara.

Dr. Adhikari is an immunologist, currently working on the functional aspect of human adaptive immunity. He studies the polyclonal antibody effector functions to characterize the humoral immunity in viral infection. He is currently adapting the antibody effector functional assays including the antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP), antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), and antibody-dependent neutralization (ADN), to understand the role of anti-HIV antibodies in HIV pathogenesis and disease.

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

19/12/2025

Are you looking forward to participate in Animal Health Session at ?

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

Organizing team would like to welcome our Invited Speaker Prof. Neil Mabbott for the session Animal Health going to be organized next year in Pokhara.

Prof. Mabbott aims to understand the pathogenesis of infectious diseases within the immune system. Particular interests include understanding host-pathogen interactions within the mucosal immune system, especially prion diseases and other gastrointestinal pathogens such as Salmonella and nematodes. Studies are also focused on the effects of host age on the function of the immune system and how this influences susceptibility to gastrointestinal pathogens.

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

12/12/2025

Pokhara
Do you want to present your ongoing research in the field of Environmental Health?

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

Organizing team would like to welcome our Invited Speaker Prof. Thomas Krauss for the session Enviornmental Health going to be organized next year in Pokhara.

Thomas Krauss is a Professor of Photonics at the University of York. He completed his first degree in Optical Engineering at Cologne, Germany in 1992, followed by a PhD in Electrical Engineering in Glasgow, UK, in 1992. He held EPSRC and Royal Society Fellowships at Glasgow before becoming Chair of Optoelectronics at St Andrews in 2000. His pioneering research in photonic crystals (Nature 1996) was initially directed towards datacomms applications, where he led 2 EU grants and several large EPSRC awards.

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

07/12/2025

Pokhara

Do you want to present your ongoing research in the field of Human Health?

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

Organizing team would like to welcome our Invited Speaker Dr. Martina Vidmar for the session Human Health going to be organized next year in Pokhara.

Dr. Vidmar is a postdoctoral researcher in Fred Warren’s group. Her work, in collaboration with two different start-ups, focuses on in vitro digestion models and the effects of dietary fibres and probiotics on the microbiota, short-chain fatty acid production, and hormone regulation.

ICBB Homepage: https://icbb.com.np/

03/12/2025

Pokhara

Do you want to present your ongoing research in the field of Plant Health?

Call for Participation: https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/call/

Organizing team would like to welcome our Invited Speaker for the session Plant Health going to be organized next year in Pokhara.

Dr. Pablo D. Cárdenas group aims to advance our understanding on how local wild plants can be domesticated into future food crops that improve lives and contribute to a more sustainable society, while also uncovering fundamental aspects of plant biology.

For more information, please visit ICBB homepage:
https://icbb.com.np/icbb2026/speakers2026/pablo-cardenas/