- Co-Director of the company Tissues Engineered Pvt Ltd since June 29th 2022
- Co-Director of the company Bactreat Environmental Solutions LLP since April 15th 2015
Projects:
As Principal
Investigator- for the following ongoing
projects:
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Skin Grafting – Tissue Engineering
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DBT- Builder
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5 years
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2022-2027
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Development of pharmaceutical polymer-based bio-ink for 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering applications.
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AMTZ, Biovalley
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1 year-
10 lacs
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2022-2023
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As Co- Investigator- for the following ongoing projects:
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Tracking the import of SARS CoV2 and its variants by surveillance of Airport wastewater
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SERB
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1 year-
40 lacs
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(ongoing)
2022-2023
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Combination of Constructed Vertical flow Wetlands, Microalgae Photobioreactor and Microbial Fuel Cell (KIT) for wastewater treatment in small pig production farms
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DST India and FCT Portugal
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3 years- 30 lacs
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(ongoing)
2022-2025
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Hybrid Non Sewered wastewater treatment system for safe discharge and reuse.
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Brazil, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) -DST
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3 years- 60 lacs
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(ongoing)
2022-2025
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As Principal Investigator- completed the following projects:
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Role of environmental toxins in kidney related diseases of Canacona Taluka, Goa
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CSIR
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3 years- 10 lacs
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(completed)
2013-2016
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Tissue engineering of human placental stem cells into a functional pancreas
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DST-SERB
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3 years-
22.14 lacs
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(completed)
2012-2015
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Testing novel and existing materials for manufacturing Tissue Engineered Heart Valves (TEHVs)
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Aditya Birla Group
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2 years-
20 lacs
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(completed)
2011-2013
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As Co-Investigator for the following completed project with BITS-Hyderabad: PI- Dr. Sanket Goel Co-PIs Dr. Arshad Javed and Dr. Satish Kumar Dubey
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Cardiac-Organ-On-Chip: Integrated microfluidic cardiac platform for drug screening and toxicity detection
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DST (BDTD- Biomedical Device and Technology Development)
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3years
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(completed)
2019 – 2022
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Co-Investigator for the following projects with Prof. Srikanth Mutnuri:BITS-Goa, many completed
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Waste water based epidemiology and screening for Covid-19
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and BIRAC (Grand challenges in India)
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1 year
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(completed)
2021-2022
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Utilization of Palm Oil effluent and solid sludge for protein production so as to use it as feed additives for animals
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Godrej Agrovet Pvt Ltd.
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8 months
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(completed)
2021-2022
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Current PhD students:
- Prajakta Bhende (joined in 2018)- Institute Fellow working on synthesis, characterization and tissue engineering applications of PHA-PHB. (Co-supervisor Prof. Judith Braganca)
- Hemant Bankhede (joined in 2020)- Part Time PhD student working on Bio-Ink for 3D Bioprinting Applications in Tissue Engineering
- Aksha Shetty (joined in 2020)- Part Time PhD student working on Myopia in Paediatric Population
- Maheshwari (joined in 2023) DBT-Builder/ Institute Fellow working on Tissue Engineering of skin
Past PhD students:
- Shruti Balaji (Nehru-Fulbright Fellow), PhD thesis title: “Functional predictions of the transcription factor, RFX6, during human pancreatic development” 2017
- Nupur Kumar (DST project fellow, ICMR Senior Research Fellow), PhD thesis title: “Pancreatic tissue engineering Using Agarose Based Nano-composites and Human Umbilical Cord Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells”. 2019
- Starlaine Chrizelle Mascarenhas (CSIR project fellow, ICMR Senior Research Fellow) PhD thesis title “Environmental toxins responsible for the development of Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) in Canacona taluka, Goa” 2019
- Savitha Dhandapani (2011) Anti-Cancer Studies - The effects of copolymers of tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal and itaconic anhydride and MicroRNA-145 and MicroRNA-182 on A549-human lung adenocarcinoma cells
- Ganeshkumar Arumugam (2012) Analysis of p53 mutation and DNA methylation status of hsa-miR-145 gene in A549 and HaCaT cell lines and mechanism of anticancer activity of ethanolic extract from Vitex negundo in A549 cell line
- Sibani Prasad Dash (2012) Study of Anticancer Activity of Vitex nigundo
- Subhadra Dalwani (2013) Methods of cell culture and histological studies of heart valve
MSc Biology Thesis:
ME Biotechnology research students:
- Rakesh Chatriki
- Ganeshkumar Arumugam
- Savitha Dhandapani
- Sibani Prasad Dash
- Subhadra Dalwani
- Nikita Hoskote (2012)
- Pabla Iraz (2013)
- Shreya S Katiyar (2013)
- Savitha Chudamani (2021)
