faculty Profile

PhD – Biomedical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, USA, Aug 2008 Dissertation Title: “Nanoengineered Templates for Controlled Delivery of Bioactive Compounds”

B. Tech.- Chemical Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, Jun 2000

Academic & Research Experience

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, India, Feb 2017 to till date
Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, India, Feb 2016 to Feb 2017
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, India, Jun 2012 to Jan 2016.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Translational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Jan 2010 to Dec 2011.
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA, Nov 2008 to Apr 2009.
Graduate Research Assistant, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, USA, Sep 2004 to Aug 2008.

Industrial Experience
Director, Research and Development, Better Paper Technologies, Ruston, Lousiana, USA, 2006-2007.
Assistant Manager, Reliance Industries Limited, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 2000-2004.

Mass Transfer I

Mass Transfer II

Mass Transfer Operations

Chemical Reaction Engineering

Bioprocess Engineering

Environmental Science

IPR & Biosafety

Research and Research Methodology in Biotechnology

Drugs and Pharmaceutical Technology

Tissue Engineering

Stem Cell Technology

Recognized supervisor of PhD and MS (by Research) by Anna University, Chennai.

Currently Guiding: 1 PhD and 2 M.Tech

Guided: 16 M.Tech

Publication Record

Total number of citations – 499, h-index – 6 and i10-index – 6 (as per Google Scholar, Dec 2016)

Refereed Journal Articles

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Warren L. Grayson, “Recapitulation of Mesenchymal condensation enhances in vitro chondrogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells”, Journal of Cellular

Physiology, 227(11), 2012, 3701-3708. (Impact Factor – 3.839, Citations – 28).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22378248

Erin Salter, Brian Goh, Ben Hung, Daphne Hutton, Nalinkanth Ghone, Warren Grayson, “Bone Tissue Engineering Bioreactors – A Role in the Clinic”, Tissue Engineering Part B, 18(1), 2012, 62-

65. (Impact Factor – 4.448, Citations – 53).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21902622

Shantanu S. Balkundi, Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Yuri M. Lvov, M. Eby, G. Johnson, Yuri M. Lvov, “Encapsulation of Bacterial Spores in Nanoorganized Polyelectrolyte Shells”, Langmuir, 25, 2009,

14011-14016, (Impact Factor – 4.457, Citations – 47).

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la900971h

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Dmitriy Mongayt, Vladimir Torchilin, Ronald R. Price, Yuri M. Lvov, “Organized Shells on Clay Nanotubes for Controlled Release of Macromolecules”, Macromolecular Rapid

Communications, 30(2), January 2009, 99-103 (Journal Cover Picture), 103 (Journal Cover Picture, Impact Factor – 4.941, Citations – 116).

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/marc.200800510/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+3+Mar+from+10-13+GMT+for+monthly+maintenance

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Poorna L. Goli, Skylar S. Stewart-Clark, Yuri M. Lvov, David K. Mills, “Nanoencapsulation of Stem Cells within Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Shell”, Journal of Macromolecular

Bioscience, 7(7), July 2007, 877-882, (Impact Factor – 3.85, Citations – 118).

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mabi.200700061/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+3+Mar+from+10-13+GMT+for+monthly+maintenance

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Ronald R. Price, Yuri M. Lvov, “Clay Nanotubes for Encapsulation and Sustained Release of Drugs”, NANO, 2(2), April 2007, 115-120, (Impact Factor – 1.090, Citations –

137).

http://www.worldscinet.com/nano/02/0202/S1793292007000441.html

Conference Proceedings

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Ronald R. Price, Yuri M. Lvov, “Tubule Clay Nanoreactor for Template Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles”, Proceedings of 236th ACS National meeting, PA, Polymeric

Materials: Science & Engineering division, 99, August 2008, 566-567.

Shantanu S. Balkundi, Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Glenn Johnson, M. Eby, Yuri M. Lvov, “Nanoshells on Microbial Spores through polyelectrolyte LbL assembly”, Proceedings of 236th ACS National

meeting, PA, Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering division, 99, August 2008, 151-152.

Book Chapter

Bio-inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials : Strategies, Synthesis, Characterization and Applications, edited by E. Ruiz-Hitzky, K. Ariga, Y. M. Lvov, Chapter 14 – Halloysite Nanotubules, a

NovelSubstrate for the Controlled Delivery of Bioactive Molecules, contribution from Nalinkanth V. Ghone and Shantanu S. Balkundi, 419-441, 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA,

Weinheim, ISBN: 978-3-527-31718-9.

Report of Invention

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Yuri M. Lvov, and Shantanu S. Balkundi, report of invention submitted to Louisiana Tech University on “Nanoparticle/polymer stoppers in halloysite nanotubes for controlled

release technology”, (ROI #2006-25).

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, and Yuri M. Lvov, report of invention submitted to Louisiana Tech University on “Template synthesis of Silver nanoparticle using Clay nanotubes as nanoreactor”, (ROI #2008

-03).

Project Proposals Submitted To External Funding Agencies

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone in collaboration with Dr. K.B. Sudhakar Prof/EEE, Dr. S. Ilaiyavel Asso.Prof/ME and Mr. V. Senthil Velan Asst.Prof/ME submitted a project proposal to NITI Aayog, New

Delhi for an amount of Rs. 10 crore to establish Atal Incubation Centre at SVCE on 20th July, 2016.

Prof. Nalinkanth Ghone (PI) and Prof. M. Sivanandham (Co-Investigator) submitted a project proposal titled, ‘Scalable wave cell bag bioreactor for the production of BMP2 protein using

mesenchymal stem cell expression platform’, to DBT, Govt. of India, New Delhi requesting an amount of Rs. 29,39,200 /- for the period 2016-2019.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone and Ms. N. Anuradha submitted a project proposal entitled ‘Engineering mesenchymal stem cell derived bone tissues using 3D printed PCL scaffolds and Litsea glutinosa

bark extract’ to Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology for the period of 2014-2015 and for Rs 10,000 /-.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone and Ms. V. Darshini submitted a project proposal entitled ‘Effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Derived Exosomes on MCF7’ to Tamilnadu State Council for Science and

Technology for the period of 2014-2015 and for Rs 10,000 /-.

Prof. Nalinkanth Ghone (PI) and Prof. M. Sivanandham (Co-Investigator) submitted a project proposal titled, ‘Synthesis and delivery of cationic antimicrobial peptides as a novel system for the

prevention of milk spoilage’ to iBEC 2016, jointly conducted by DBT, Govt. of India, New Delhi and JNU, New Delhi requesting an amount of Rs. 12,64,079 /- for a period of six months during

2016-2017.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone and Ms. M.M. Akshaya Lakshmi submitted a project proposal entitled ‘Paracrine effect of MCF7cells on Mesenchymal stem cells’ to Tamilnadu State Council for Science

and Technology for the period of 2013-2014 and for Rs 10,000 /-.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone and Ms. N. C. Saraswathi submitted a project proposal entitled ‘Effect of medicinal plants on bone marrow derived Mesenchymal stem cells’ to Tamilnadu State Council

for Science and Technology for the period of 2013-2014 and for the amount of Rs 10,000 /-.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone and Ms. Senthamil Pavai submitted a project proposal entitled ‘Nanotubular gene delivery to mouse Mesenchymal stem cells’ to Tamilnadu State Council for Science and

Technology for the period of 2013-2014 and for Rs 10,000 /-.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone and Ms. D. Swathi submitted a project proposal entitled “Enhancement of bone marrow derived murine mesenchymal stem cell proliferation using computational system

biotechnological tools” to Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology for the period of 2014-2015 and for Rs 10,000 /-.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone and Mr. E. Balaji submitted a project proposal entitled “Identifying enhancers for bone morphogenic protein pathway using computational system biotechnological tools for

osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow derived murine mesenchymal stem cells” to Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology for the period of 2014-2015 and for Rs 10,000 /-.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone submitted a project proposal entitled ” Stem Cell Induction Activity of Ormocarpumcochinchinense Elumbotti – A Medicinal Plant of Tamilnadu Native ” to Tamilnadu State

Council for Science and Technology for the period of 2014-2016 and for Rs 4,10,000 /-.

Dr.Nalinkanth V. Ghone and M. Monisha submitted a project proposal entitled ” Real time PCR conformation of dendritic cell immaturation reversal under hypoxia in the presence of small organic

molecules ” to Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology for the period of 2013-2014 and for Rs 10,000 /-

Dr.Nalinkanth V. Ghone submitted a project proposal entitled “Engineering Natural Nanotubular Clay Composites by Layer-by-Layer Assembly for Applications in Nanobiotechnology” to AICTE

under RPS Scheme for the period of 2013-2016.

Dr.Nalinkanth V. Ghone submitted a FDP proposal entitled “Stem cell biotechnology” to AICTE under FDP Scheme for the period of two weeks during 2013-2014.

Dr.Nalinkanth V. Ghone submitted a project proposal entitled “Pilot Scale Expansion and Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells using Wave Bioreactor for Translation of Stem Cell Therapies”

to Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India for Rs 43.76 Lakhs for the period 2013-2016.

Dr.Nalinkanth V. Ghone submitted a project proposal entitled “Non-viral Nanotubular Transfection of Dendritic Cells for Colorectal Cancer Immunotherapy” Tamilnadu State Council for Science and

Technology for the period 2013-2015 and for Rs 4,95,000 /-.

Dr.Nalinkanth V. Ghone submitted a project proposal entitled ” Engineering Interfacial Osteochondral Tissues Using Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells” to Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of

Science and Technology, India for Rs 42.09 Lakhs on 20th November 2012.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone and Prof. M. Sivanandham submitted a project proposal entitled “Enhancing the activity of human dendritic cells in vitro under tumor-hypoxia mimetic environment” to

Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology for the period of 2 years and for Rs 3,00,000 /-.

Attended an  AICTE Sponsored short term course on “Instrumental Methods of Analysis” held at SVCE from 04th to 9th November 2019.

Attended an One day National Conference on “Technological Innovation on Clean Energy Generation and Environmental Remediation” held at SVCE on 04th October 2019.

Conference, Workshops Organized/Training Provided

Organized ‘Indian iGEM – Meet Up’ on 23rd July, 2016, to have collaborative interactions among iGEM teams from India.

Organised a national level conference on “Applications of Moderm Biotechnology” at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur and VclinBio Labs, SRMC, Chennai from Feb 4th –

5th, 2016.

Organised a Summer Workshop on “Imaging Techniques in Confocal and Fluorescence Microscopy” at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur and VclinBio Labs, SRMC,

Chennai from May 5th – 9th, 2015.

Organized a national level workshop on “Recent Trends in Computer Aided drug Design” on 26th& 27thSeptember, 2014.

Organised a National level workshop on “Isolation, Culture and Differentiation of Stem Cells” at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, on Mar 20th & 21st, 2014.

Provided training during National level Workshop on “Pilot Scale mammalian Cell Culture Using Wave Bioreactor”, at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, on November 12,

2013.

Provided training during CSIR sponsored “National Workshop on Emerging Trends in Molecular & Recombinant DNA Technology”, at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur,

on September 20 & 21, 2013.

Organized a National level Workshop on “Phytoproducts for Human Health and Environmental Sustainability” at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, on February 27 & 28,

2013.

Provided training during National level Workshop on “Modern biotechnological Approaches for Food Processing” at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, on September 13

& 14, 2012.

Conference / Seminar Talks

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone, presented a talk on “Biosensors” at one day seminar on “Extension of Physics Education in recent developments”, conducted by Dr. M.G.R Educational and Research

Institute, Chennai on 12th October, 2015.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone, presented a talk at “Climate Change & Biodiversity: Awareness Workshop for School Children”, sponsored by National Council for Science & Technology Communication

(NCSTC), DST, New Delhi during 24th -28th February 2014, at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone, presented a guest lecture on “Nanotechnology in Life Sciences”, at Association of information Technologists, Department of Information Technology, Sri Venkateswara

College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, on 28thJan 2014.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone, presented a talk at Faculty Development Programme on “ENTREPRENEURSHIP” Sponsored by National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board

(NSTEDB), DST, New Delhi during 2nd-14th December 2013, at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone, presented a talk at International Conference on Frontiers of Stem Cell and Biotechnology in Human and Veterinary Medicine, 11th and 12th January 2013, on ‘Stem Cell

Encapsulation and its Propsectives’, at TANUVAS – Madras Veterinary College, Chennai, India.

Dr.Nalinkanth V. Ghone presented a talk at International stem cell summit-2013 “ISCS” January 04-06, 2013an international conference on advancement in stem cell research and therapeutics

organized by lifeline multispeciality hospitals, Chennai India.

Dr. Nalinkanth V. Ghone presented a paper at International conference on Bioengineering, held at REC on January 02-04, 2013.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Elshad A. Abdullayev, Shantanu S. Balkundi, Ronald R. Price, Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Tunable Controlled Release of Active Agents from Tubular Nano Clay’, International Union of

Materials Research Societies- 10th International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRSICAM), Bangalore, India, Oct 2007.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Shantanu S. Balkundi, and Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Clay Nanotubules Vs Carbon Nanotubes’, Nanotechnology Seminar, Louisiana tech University, Fall 2006.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Lakshmi P. Goli, Skylar S. Clarke, David K. Mills, and Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Nanoencapsulation of Stem Cells’, Nanotechnology Seminar, Louisiana tech University, Fall 2006.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, and Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Nanotubule Halloysite: New Fancy Nanocontainer for Drug Loading’, Nanotechnology Seminar, Louisiana tech University, Spring 2006.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, and Karthikeyan T. Marudachalam, ‘Innovative Method to Remove H2S – Biofiltration’, at PANSOPHY- 98 in Sri Venketeswara College of Engineering, Chennai, India.

Conference Posters

Dr.Nalinkanth V. Ghone participated in National seminar on “Recent Trends in Medical Biotechnology” organized by Dr.M.G.R Educational and Research Institute held on 21st July 2012.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Warren L. Grayson, ‘Initiation of Mesenchymal condensation enhances in vitro chondrogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells’, TERMIS-NA meeting,

Houston, TX, 11th-14th December 2011.

Shantanu S. Balkundi, Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Yuri M. Lvov, Glenn Johnson, Matthew Eby, ‘Nanoorganised Polyelectrolyte Shells on Microbial Spores’, HSEMB – 25th annual meeting, Houston, TX,

7th-8th Feb 2008.

Elshad A. Abdullayev, Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Yuri M. Lvov, Dmitry Fix, Dmitry Shchukin, ‘Anticorrosion Coatings for Metals using Nanotubular Clay Composite’, The Waterborne Symposium – 35th

Annual international symposium on advances in sustainable coating technologies, New Orleans, LA, 30th Jan- 1st Feb 2008.

Yuri M. Lvov, Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Shantanu Balkundi, ‘Biomimetic Nanoassembly for Protein and Drug Encapsulation’, ACS Conference: Macromolecules for a Safe, Sustainable and Healthy

World, 2nd Strategic Polymer Symposium, New York, NY, 10th-13th June 2007.

Aadel A. Darrat, Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Shantanu S. Balkundi, Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Nanoengineered halloysite tubules for controlled release of drugs and proteins’, 233rd ACS National meeting, Chicago,

IL, 25th-29th March 2007.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Clay Nanotubes for Encapsulation and Sustained Release of Bioactive Agents’, Seventh Louisiana Materials and Emerging Technologies Conference, Baton

Rouge, LA, 23rd – 24th October 2006.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Shantanu S. Balkundi, Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Halloysite Clay as Tubular Nanotemplate for Layer-by-Layer Assembly’, The 62nd Southwest regional meeting of ACS, Houston, TX,

19th-22nd October 2006.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Halloysite – Prospective Drug Delivery Template’, Second Annual Biomedical Engineering Research Day, Louisiana tech University, Ruston, LA, 5th May 2006.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Clay Nanotubules for Drug Encapsulation and Sustained Release’, Fostering collaborations with Bioresearch day, Shreveport, LA, 1st May 2006.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Shashikanth M. Sriram, Dinesh S. Kommireddy, Yuri M. Lvov, David K. Mills, ‘Stem Cell Encapsulation Using Layer by Layer Technique’, 11th Annual meeting – Institute of

Biological Engineering, Tucson, AZ, 10th – 12th March

M. Prouty, Z. Lu, Nalinkanth V. Ghone, G. Krishna, A. Yaroslavov, C. Kumar, C. Leuschner, Y. Lvov, ‘Drug Nanoencapsulation and Controlled Release’, Sixth Louisiana Materials and Emerging

Technologies Conference, Ruston, LA, 12th – 13th December 2005.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Krishna Gopal, Yuri Lvov, ‘A Novel Nanotubular Template for Delivering Bioactive Agents – Halloysite’, The 61st Southwest and the 57th South east Joint regional ACS

conference, Memphis, TN, 1st – 4th November 2005.

Sandeep R. Eadula, Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Yuri Lvov, ‘Micro encapsulation of Dexamethasone by Electrostatic Layer by Layer Assembly for a Two Phase differential release’. The 61st Southwest

and the 57th South east Joint regional ACS conference, Memphis, TN, 1st – 4th November 2005.

Nalinkanth V. Ghone, Yuri M. Lvov, ‘Nanotubular Drug Delivery using Novel Biomaterial – Halloysite’, First Annual Biomedical Engineering Research Day , Louisiana tech University, Ruston, LA,

5th May 2005.

Conference/Workshop/FDP/Seminar attended

ABET Workshop by Dr. Michael Milligan, CEO, ABET, on Sunday, 15th July, 2018, at Vijayawada.

“EPICS in India Annual Symposium” from 12th July to 14th July, 2018, at Hyderabad.

QIP short term course on “Concepts in Chemical Reaction Engineering” from 18th to 22nd June, 2018, at IISC, Bengaluru.

Certificate Course on “Effective Patent Drafting” (PATDRAFT – 2017) from 8th to 12th November 2017, at Anna University, Chennai.

QIP short term course on “Genetic Engineering – Principles and Applications” from 24th to 28th April, 2017, at IISC, Bengaluru.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone attended QIP short term course on “Scanning Electron Microscopy” from 12th to 16th December, 2016, at IISC, Bengaluru.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone attended National Workshop on ‘Understanding the Molecular Aspects of Microbial Drug Resistance: An Emerging Microbial Threat to Health’ during 5th to 9th

December, 2016, at Department of Biotechnology, SVCE.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone attended FDP themed on “Managerial Competencies For Educational Administrators”, organized by ITM Business School, Siruseri, Chennai, on 4th November, 2016.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone attended National Workshop on ‘Contemporary Research in Genetic Engineering’ during 9th to 10th September, 2016, at Department of Biotechnology, SVCE.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone attended IEEE Education Society’s Workshop on “Quality Initiatives in Outcome Based Technical Education” from 1st to 3rd September, 2016, at Matrusri Engineering

College, Hyderabad.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone participated in one week short-term training programme on ‘Recombinant protein production and purification’ conducted in association with Brainwave Biotechnology

Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, from 20th to 24th June, 2016, at SVCE.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone attended the DBT, Cognizant sponsored National Workshop on ‘Food Safety and Quality Control’ conducted by Department of Biotechnology, SVCE on 11th & 12th

April, 2016.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone attended ‘SVCE Faculty Research Day’ on 28th April, 2016.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone underwent custom antibody production training at Bioklone Biotech Pvt. Ltd., Chennai on 4th to 5th June 2014.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone attended “National Workshop on Current Research in Molecular Toxicology” sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, New Delhi during 20th& 21st

February 2015.

Prof. Nalinkanth V. Ghone attended Faculty Development Programme on “Entrepreneurship” Sponsored by National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB),

DST, New Delhi on 2nd-14th December 2013

IPR & Technology Transfer Coordinator (College Level)

PALS Innowah Coordinator (College Level)

IEEE – EPICS, Project Coordinator (College Level)

Assistant HOD – Chemical Engineering Department

Academic Objective Coordinator for Chemical Engineering Department

Adjunct Professor – Biotechnology

Chemical Sciences – Module Coordinator

III Year Class Committee Chairperson

Faculty Advisor I Year &II Year (MCH)

Academic Objective Coordinator

ACT – IIChE Coordinator &
Pansophy’2019 Coordinator

B.Tech Project Coordination

Won iGEM 2016 Silver Medal as an instructor for the team SVCE Chennai, held at Boston, MA, USA.
Won iGEM 2015 Bronze Medal as an instructor for the team SVCE Chennai, held at Boston, MA, USA.
Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India gave a cash award for the amount of INR 50,000/- under the scheme of CTEP, DBT Conducting

Workshop on Isolation, Culture and Differentiation of Stem Cells, 20-21 Mar 2014.
Indian Council of Medical Research gave a cash award for the amount of INR 40,000/- under the scheme of Grant in Aid for conducting Seminar / Symposium / Workshop on Isolation, Culture

and Differentiation of Stem Cells, 20-21 Mar 2014.
Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, gave a cash award for the amount of INR 4,95,000/- under the scheme Short term training course for mid

career scientists and teaching faculty working in different areas of life sciences and biotechnology, for conducting Short term training course on Techniques for Bioprocess and Downstream

Process Engineering and Tools for Systems Metabolic Engineering.
US Air force research laboratory, under student research participation gave Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education Fellowship Award (US $ 35000/-) during Sept 2007 to Aug 2008.
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, USA, under ABESE Top Dawg Business Plan competition (April 2006) gave cash award (US $ 5000/-) for second place and space for incubating

business for one year.
Louisiana Materials and Emerging Technologies Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Poster Presentation (Oct 2006) Second place in student poster cash award (US $ 100/-).
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, USA. Biomedical Engineering Research Day, Poster Presentation (May 2005) Third place in student poster cash award (US $ 50)