Biointerface Engineering: Prospects in Medical Diagnostics and Drug Delivery (PDF)

Prof. Pranjal Chandra is currently employed as an Assistant Professor at the School of Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. He earned his Ph.D. from Pusan National University, South Korea and did post-doctoral training at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. His research focus is highly interdisciplinary, spanning a wide range in biotechnology, nanobiosensors, material engineering, nanomedicine, etc. He has designed several commercially viable biosensing prototypes that can be operated for onsite analysis for biomedical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and other point-of-care testing applications. He has published 5 books on various aspects of biosensors / medical diagnostics from IET London, Springer Nature, CRC press USA. He has also published over 85 journal articles in topmost journals of his research area including; Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Analytical Chemistry, Biomaterials, Chemical Communications, Electroanalysis, etc. His work has been greatly highlighted in over 300 topmost news agencies globally including Rajya Sabha TV, DD Science, Science Trends USA, Nature India, Vigyan Prasar, Global Medical Discovery; Canada, APBN Singapore, Business Wire; Dublin, etc. He is a recipient of many prestigious awards and fellowships such as; DST Ramanujan fellowship (Government of India); Early Carrier Research Award (DST, Government of India); Brain Korea -21 and National Research Foundation fellowship, South Korea; Technion post-doctoral fellowship, Israel; NMS Young scientist award, Biotech Research Society India Young Scientist Award, Young Engineers Award 2018, RSC Highly Cited Corresponding Author Award (general chemistry); ACS / Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer Awards, etc. He is a reviewer of over 50 international journals and expert project reviewer of various national/international funding agencies. He is Associate Editor of Sensors International and an editorial board member of a Materials Science