IIT Guwahati professor awarded Swarnajayanti Fellowship

GUWAHATI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati's faculty Professor Biman B. Mandal has been awarded the prestigious SwarnajayantiFellowship.TheSwarnajayanti Fellowships were instituted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, to commemorate India's 50th year of Independence. Under this scheme a selected number of young scientists with proven track record are provided special assistance and support to enable them to pursue research in frontier areas of science and technology.

According to a release, as a part of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship, winners are awarded top up salary and high value research funds for next five years to allow pursue unfettered research with high degree of freedom and flexibility.

During the fellowship period, Professor Mandal will be working on a project titled 'Modelling human liver microarchitecture and cellular physiology in vitro using 3D bioprinting for drug toxicity and high throughput drug screening applications.'

Dr. Biman B. Mandal is Professor at Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering and Centre for Nanotechnology and Associate Dean, Academics (UG) at IIT Guwahati. Professor Mandal received his Ph.D from IIT Kharagpur and Post Doctorade from Tufts University, Boston, USA. His research area is Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine.

He has successfully transferred/licensed three healthcare technologies to industry and has published 141+ peer reviewed high impact journal articles with a cumulative impact factor of 748+, 5300+ citations and H-index of 38. He is lead inventor in 17 patents, contributed nine book chapters, delivered 67+ Plenary/Popular/Invited talks, Editorial board member of 12 International Journals.

Professor Mandal is a recipient of B.M. Birla Science Prize 2018 in Biology, INSA- Medal 2015; NASI- Medal 2013; NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2016; DST- INSPIRE Faculty 2013 and many other national and international accolades. His lab at IITG is recognized as a 'Unit of Excellence' by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

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