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Nitin Gupta’s TreadWill CBT trial cuts anxiety, depression

By Drooid · Sep 29, 2026, 4:24 AM UTC · How we work

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Gupta Launches TreadWill

Gupta’s team created TreadWill, an automated CBT platform for low-resource settings.
A randomized trial of 598 Indian participants found half-completion reduced depression and anxiety versus waitlist.
The programme targets populations with limited therapist access, expanding mental-health care reach.
Gupta’s lab used intracellular electrophysiology and morphological reconstruction to map Aedes aegypti antennal-lobe neurons.
Immunohistochemistry revealed variable neuronal connections across insects while preserving odor response order, in a 2023 Nature Communications paper.

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Nitin Gupta Returns

IIT-JEE AIR 1 Nitin Gupta returned to IIT Kanpur to research mosquito brains.
He earned a BTech from IIT Kanpur in 2004 and a PhD from UC San Diego in 2009.
He completed a postdoctoral NIH fellowship studying neuronal electrical activity before shifting to insect-based odor behavior research.
He says the film Swades motivated his return to India.
He received the Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (2015), Swarnajayanti Fellowship (2021) and Joy Gill Chair (2025).

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Gupta Launches TreadWill

Gupta’s team created TreadWill, an automated CBT platform for low-resource settings.
A randomized trial of 598 Indian participants found half-completion reduced depression and anxiety versus waitlist.
The programme targets populations with limited therapist access, expanding mental-health care reach.
Gupta’s lab used intracellular electrophysiology and morphological reconstruction to map Aedes aegypti antennal-lobe neurons.
Immunohistochemistry revealed variable neuronal connections across insects while preserving odor response order, in a 2023 Nature Communications paper.

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