Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Associate Professor

 

Department of Applied Sciences                                                                                         IIIT Allahabad, Jhalwa, Allahabad, U.P.

+91-9838146642 amit@iiita.ac.in amit.prabhakar.bme@gmail.com

Address: D-28 (In campus faculty residence), IIIT Allahabad, Jhalwa, Allahabad-211012, U.P., India.

Academic details

Education	University/Institute	Duration
Doctorate	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Research Area: Evanescent wave absorption based Lab-on-a-chip devices	2006-11
M.E.	Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India Specialization: Biomedical Engg.,	2003-2005
B.Pharma	M.I.T. Muzaffarpur, India	1997-2002
Intermediate Science	BIEC	1991-1993
10th	BSEB Board	1991

To pursue a career in academics, with research and development in the area of micro/nanosciences, which will allow me to employ and expand my multidisciplinary skills.

Ex-Post Doctoral Fellow, Microfluidics Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay, India   

• Study of Pulsate blood flow in microchannel.
• Microfluidic device for blood plasma separation.
• Cost effective micropump for Lab on chip applications.

Ph.D. Thesis (Biomedical Engineering)  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India             

Title: Microfabricated SU-8 Optical Waveguide Based Chemical and Biological Sensors

Supervisor: Prof. S. Mukherji, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay 

Synopsis: The aim of this research work is to develop a cost effective label free evanescent wave absorbance based portable lab on chip devices for biosensing application in addition to as a novel mean of detection after electro-separation of various analytes including biomolecule. Three possible sensing mechanisms were explored in this work

• Optical absorbance properties of target analytes themselves i.e. evanescent wave absorbance measurement at visible region of light.
• Sample cladding’s Refractive index variation based change in intensity output of waveguides.
• Refractive index (RI) changes in the ambient upon capture of bioanalyte by bioreceptors immobilized on gold nanoparticles (GNP) adhered to waveguide i.e. by using localized surface plasmon resonance (L-SPR).

M. E. Thesis (Biomedical Engineering)

       Title: Development of a cost effective lactate biosensor.

       Supervisor:  Prof. D.N.Tibarewala, School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

       Co-Supervisor: Prof. P. Chattopadhyay, Food Technology & Bio-Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Patents List (Filed or Applied)

Publications

 

• Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, “Microfabricated polymer analysis chip with integrated U-bend waveguides for evanescent field absorption detection”, Lab Chip, 2010, 10, 748. (Impact Factor: 6.5).
• Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, “A novel C-shaped, gold nanoparticle coated, embedded polymer waveguide for localized surface plasmon resonance based detection”, Lab Chip, 2010, 10, 3422-3425 (Impact Factor: 6.5).
• Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, “Investigation of the Effect of Curvature on Sensitivity of Bio/Chemical Sensors Based on Embedded Polymer Semicircular Waveguides”, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 171–172 (2012) 1303–1311, (Link: - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2012.05.013). (Impact Factor: 3.9).
• Sidhartha Triparti, Amit Prabhakar, Nishant Kumar & Shiv Govind Singh and Amit Agrawal, An Investigation of Blood Plasma Separation in Elevated Dimension T-shaped Microchannels, (Biomed Microdevices, 15 (3). pp. 415-425, 2013,  (DOI 10.1007/s10544-013-9738-z). (Impact Factor: 3.032).
• Nishant Kumar, Amit Prabhakar, M. Tikekar, S.G. Singh, and A. Agrawal, Blood flow in non-circular microchannel under pulsating condition, Journal of Micro-Nano Scale Transport, 2014, Volume 4 · Number 1, 33-50. (Impact Factor: 2.01).
• Amit Prabhakar, Y V Bala VarunKumar, Siddhartha Tripathi, Amit Agrawal, A novel, compact and efficient microchannel arrangement with multiple hydrodynamic effects for blood plasma separation, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 18, 9951006 (2014), (DOI: 10.1007/s10404-014-1488-6). (Impact Factor: 3.218).
• S. Tripathi, Y. V. B. V. Kumar, Amit Prabhakar, S. Joshi, and A. Agrawal (2015), Performance Study of Microuidic Device for Blood Plasma Separation - A Designers Perspective", J. Micromech. Microeng., 25, 084004 (2015) (doi:10.1088/0960-1317/25/8/084004). (Impact Factor: 2.105).
• S. Tripathi, Y. V. B. V. Kumar, Amit Prabhakar, S. Joshi, and A. Agrawal, Passive Blood Plasma Separation at Micro-scale: A Review of Design Principles and Microdevices, J. Micromech. Microeng, 25(8):083001, August 2015, (doi:10.1088/0960-1317/25/8/083001). (Impact Factor: 2.105).
•  S. Tripathi, Y. V. B. V. Kumar, Amit Prabhakar, S. Joshi, and A. Agrawal, Synthesis of bio-physical and geometrical effects for developing a microdevice for plasma separation from whole human blood, Scientific Reports, Nature, volume 6, Article number: 26749 (2016) Accepted in (DOI: 10.1038/srep26749 ) (Impact Factor: 5.228).
• A. Prabhakar, N. Mishra and S. Mukherji, A Comprehensive Investigation of A Microfabricated U-Bend Polymer Waveguide with Analyte Micro-Reservoir for Versatile On-Chip Sensing Applications,Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 935 - 945, 2017. (Impact Factor: 2.0).
• A. Prabhakar, N. Mishra, Deepti Verma, and S. Mukherji, “Investigation of Dual Bend - Serpentine / Spiral Waveguides, Coupled to Microchannel System, for Competent, Evanescent Wave Absorption Based, On-Chip, Biological / Chemical Sensing Applications” (RSC Advances, 2018, 8, 35539 - 35550).
• A. Prabhakar, Agrawal Mehul, Mishra Neha, Roy Nimisha, Verma Deepti, Jaiswar Ankur, Dhwaj Amar, Cost-effective Smart Microfluidic Device With Immobilized Silver Nanoparticles and Embedded UV-Light Sources for Synergistic Water Disinfection Effect, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 17479.
• Roy Nimisha, Verma Deepti, A. Prabhakar, A Smart Microfluidic Platform for the Evaluation of SARS-Cov-2 Pathogenesis, along with Estimation of the Effectiveness of Potential Drug and Antibody Treatment, Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2020) 5:241–250.
• Amit Prabhakar, Deepti Verma, Amar Dhwaj, Soumyo Mukherji, Microchannel integrated tapered and tapered-bend waveguides, for proficient, evanescent-field absorbance based, on-chip, chemical and biological sensing operations, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical 332 (2021) 129455.
• Praveen K., Dhwaj A., and  Prabhakar A., Design and Development of A Cost Effective Flex Sensors for Recognition of International Sign Language through the Motion of Hand (Journal), Journal/Conference/Book Publisher:International Journal of Advances in Electronics and Computer Science, Volume-5, Issue-2, Feb.-2018 (Non SCI), Year: 2018.
• Mishra Neha, Dhwaj Amar, A. Prabhakar, PDMS Bonding via A Portable, Low-Cost Corona System, for Microfluidic Chip Fabrication (Journal), Journal/Conference/Book Publisher: International Journal of Advances in Science Engineering and Technology, Vol-6, Iss-1, Spl. Issue-1 Feb.-2018.
• Amit Prabhakar, Ishita Bansal, Ankur Jaiswar, Nimisha Roy, Deepti Verma, A Simple Cost-Effective Microfluidic Platform for Rapid Synthesis of Diverse Metal Nanoparticles: A Novel Approach Towards Fighting SARS-CoV-2, To be published in: Materials Today: Proceedings. (Recently Accepted)
• Amit Prabhakar, Deepti Verma, Nimisha Roy, Prashant Nayak and Soumyo Mukherji, Design and Fabrication of a Cost-Effective, Electrochemical Detection Based, Polymeric Capillary-Electrophoresis Microfluidic Devices for Diverse Bioanalytical Functions, To be published in: Springer Nature, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering(LNEE) proceedings (Recently Accepted).
• Amit Prabhakar, Ankur Jaiswar, Neha Mishra, Amar Dhwaj, Prashant Nayak, Deepti Verma, Amalgamation of Diverse Hydrodynamic Imprint with Novel Triple-Sided Membrane Valves for Developing A Microfluidic Device for Filter-Less and Continuous Water Purification, RSC Adv., 2021 (Accepted).
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• N Mishra, M Mishra, A Prabhakar, Design and Fabrication of Bio-MEMS Device for Detection of Heavy Metalion Present in Potable Water, 2021 International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Computing, Communication and Sustainable Technologies (ICAECT) | 978-1-7281-5791-7/20/$31.00 ©2021 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/ICAECT49130.2021.9392388.

• ·Neha Mishra, Amar Dhwaj, Deepti Verma, Amit Prabhakar, Cost-effective microabsorbance detection based nanoparticle immobilized microfluidic system for potential investigation of diverse chemical contaminants present in drinking water, Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 1205, 2022, 339734. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2022.339734)

• N Mishra, M Mishra, Amit Prabhakar, Design and Fabrication of Bio-MEMS Device for Detection of Heavy Metal ion Present in Potable Water, 2021 International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Computing, Communication and Sustainable Technologies (ICAECT) | 978-1-7281-5791-7/20/$31.00 ©2021 IEEE | DOI: 10.1109/ICAECT49130.2021.9392388.
• Dhwaj, A., Roy, N., Jaiswar, A., Prabhakar, A., & Verma, D. (2022). 3D-Printed Impedance Micropump for Continuous Perfusion of the Sample and Nutrient Medium Integrated with a Liver-On-Chip Prototype. ACS omega, 7(45), 40900-40910. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c03818)
• Roy, N., Jaiswal, S., Dhwaj, A., Verma, D., & Prabhakar, A. (2023). Nanobiosensor-Based Microfluidic Point-of-Care Platforms: Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications; In book: Nanobiosensors for point-of-care medical diagnostics (pp. 233-256). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.(DOI:10.1007/978-981-19-5141-1_11)
• Jaiswal, S., Roy, N., Dhwaj, A., Verma, D., & Prabhakar, A. (2022). A Review on the Various Mechanisms of Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications. Current Green Chemistry, 9(2), 62-73. (10.2174/2213346110666221028143409).
• Dhwaj, A., Roy, N., Jaiswar, A., Prabhakar, A., & Verma, D. (2023), Distinctive Sugar 3D Printing approach for creating Artificial Blood vascular network inside composite Hydrogel matrix using Custom-made Extruder. Biofabrication, (*BF-104400.R1 Recently Accepted*) [Impact Factor: 11.061].
• Gyanendra Chaudhary; Brijesh Kumar; Kanhaya Lal; Amar Dhawz; Amit Prabhakar; Deepti Verma, An Economical and Eco-Efficient Ammonium Chloride Catalyzed Friedländer Condensation: A Study of Microwave-Assisted Versus Conventional Heating, ChemistrySelect, 2023, Volume8, Issue32.
• Aman Verma, Gyanendra Chaudhary, Deepti Verma*, Amit Prabhakar, and Kamalakanta Behera, Ammonium tetrafluoroborate: Novel Unprecedented Catalyst for the Synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidin‐2(1H)‐ones through Biginelli Reaction, ChemistrySelect, (2024), 9, 202304179.
• Rakesh Tripathi, Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, Comparison of micro fabricated C and S bend shape SU-8 polymer waveguide of different bending diameters for maximum sensitivity, 1st International Symposium on Physics and Technology of Sensors (ISPTS), Pune, India, 7-10 March 2012, Page: 228 – 231, IEEE Xplore, DOI: 10.1109/ISPTS.2012.6260931.
• Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, “C-shaped embedded polymer waveguide for evanescent field absorption based lab on a chip biosensor”, 2010 International Conference on Systems in Medicine and Biology, IIT Kharagpur, India, 16-18 December 2010, Page: 67–70,  IEEE Xplore, DOI: 10.1109/ICSMB.2010.5735347.
• Amit Prabhakar, P. Chattopadhyay & D. N. Tibarewala , “Development of a cost effective lactate biosensor”. Proceedings of Emerging trends in biomedical instrumentation Biomed 2005, BMI department (B.I.T, MESRA), April 29-30, 2005.
• Amit Prabhakar, YV Balavarun Kumar, Sidhartha Tripathi, Shiv Govind Singh and Amit Agrawal, An novel, compact and efficient microfluidic device for blood plasma separation, (Paper number 167,   FMFP 2012) The 39th National conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power organised at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat during December 13-15, 2012).
• Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, “A Gold Nanoparticle coated embedded polymer waveguide biosensor”, Biodevices 2012, International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices, Rome (Submitted as full paper and accepted).
• Amit Prabhakar, Sonali Tripathy and Soumyo Mukherji, A novel approach to micro-total analysis systems, International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS-09), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (IITB), 1-5 Dec 2009.
• R. Bharadwaj, R. Tripathi, A. Prabhakar, S. Mukherji (2013), S-shaped SU-8 Optical Waveguide Immobilized with Gold Nanoparticles for Trace Detection of Explosives", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2013.
• S. Tripathi, Y. V. B. V. Kumar, A. Prabhakar, S. Joshi, and A. Agrawal, Plasma Separation from whole Human Blood in a Hybrid Microdevice", (submitted to FMFP 2015).
• Mishra N., Dhwaj A., Vishwakarma R., and  Prabhakar A., PDMS bonding via low cost corona bonding for microfluidic chip fabrication, ASAR International Conference, held at New Delhi, on 3rd December 2017. (The Paper Won the Best Paper Award).
• Praveen K., Dhwaj A., and  Prabhakar A., Design And Development Of A Cost Effective Flex Sensors For Recognition Of International Sign Language Through The Motion Of Hand, ASAR International Conference, held at New Delhi, on 3rd December 2017.
• Prabhakar A., Verma D., Mishra N. and Mukherji S., Microfluidic Chip Comprising Tapered Waveguides Integrated with Parallelize Microchannels for More Sensitive Chemical and Biological Sensing", 3rd International Conference (ICGTCS-2017) organized by SRM University, Delhi - NCR Campus & Asian Publication Corporation from 8th - 9th December 2017.
• N Roy, A Jaiswar, A Prabhakar, D Verma. Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research - Anti-Cancer Agents Vol. 6(2022). The Revolutionary Potential of Noble Metal Nanoparticles as Anti-Cancer Agents: State-Of-The-Art Applications and Future Perspectives. (To appear)
• N Roy, S Jaiswal, A Dhwaj, A Prabhakar, D Verma. Nanobiosensors for point-of-care medical diagnostics. Nano-biosensor based microfluidic point-of-care platforms: Fabrication, characterization, and applications. (Pages 233-256) (DOI:10.1007/978-981-19-5141-1_11)
• Prabhakar, A., Verma, D., Roy, N., Nayak, P., Mukherji, S. (2022). Design and Fabrication of a Cost-Effective, Electrochemical Detection-Based, Polymeric Capillary-Electrophoresis Microfluidic Devices for Diverse Bioanalytical Functions. In: Lenka, T.R., Misra, D., Biswas, A. (eds) Micro and Nanoelectronics Devices, Circuits and Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 781. Springer, Singapore. 
• S Jaiswal, N Roy, A Prabhakar, D Verma, Book Chapter: Characterization/Processing and synthesis strategies/applications of smart biomaterials as sustainable materials' in book entitled "ADVANCES IN SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS: FUNDAMENTALS, MODELLING AND CHARACTERIZATION" to be published by ELSEVIER, 2023, Elsevier.

 

Sl. No.	Title of Filed / Published/ Granted PATENTS.	Patent’s Application / Publication/ Patent – Number & Corresponding Dates	Awarding Country	Inventors / Authors	Current Status
1	CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS CHIP.	US Patent Publication number: US 8715558 B2 POST GRANT JOURNAL DATE : May 6, 2014	USA	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Prof. Soumyo Mukherji	Certificate Granted (Active)
2	POLYMER ANALYSIS CHIP.	US Patent Publication number: US 8441645 B2 POST GRANT JOURNAL DATE : May 14, 2013	USA	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Prof. Soumyo Mukherji	Certificate Granted (Active)
3	A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VELOCITY MEASUREMENT OF A FLUID IN A CHANNEL.	2891/MUM/2012 PUBLICATION DATE (U/S 11A) :  01/10/2012	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Prof. Soumyo Mukherji, Sonali Tripathy	Application in Amended stage
4	MICRO DEVICE FOR SEPARATING BLOOD PLASMA FROM WHOLE HUMAN BLOOD AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME.	2344/MUM/2013 PUBLICATION DATE (U/S 11A) : 19/06/2015	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Prof. Amit Agrawal, Y.V. Balavarun Kumar	Certificate Granted (Active)
5	LAB-ON-CHIP OPTICAL BIOSENSOR BASED ON MULTIPLE FOCUSING OF INCIDENT BEAM.	Information not Available	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Prof. Soumyo Mukherji, Sonali Tripathy	Application Not Yet Published
6	A COST EFFECTIVE AND DISPOSABLE MICROPUMP FOR LAB ON CHIP APPLICATIONS.	3411/MUM/2014 PUBLICATION DATE (U/S 11A) : 06/05/2016	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Prof. Amit Agrawal, B.S. Bharat.	Certificate Granted (Active)
7	A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE WITH IMMOBILIZED NANO-PARTICLES AND COUPLED ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SOURCE, FOR WATER DISINFECTION	Application Number: 201811028600; Date of Filing: 30/07/2018 PUBLICATION DATE (U/S 11A) : 22/03/2019	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Mehul Agrawal, Neha Mishra, Dr. Deepti Verma, Dr. Vishnu Agrawal	Certificate Granted (Active)
8	A PORTABLE CORONA-DISCHARGE SYSTEM WITH CUSTOM MADE ELECTRODES, FOR PDMS HYDROPHILIC TREATMENT, AND BONDING FOR MICROFLUIDIC CHIP FABRICATION.	Application Number: 201811028599; Date of Filing: 30/07/2018 PUBLICATION DATE (U/S 11A) : 17/08/2018	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Amar Dhwaj, Neha Mishra, Rohit Vishwakarma	Certificate Granted (Awaited)
9	APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SEPARATION OF SUSPENDED PARTICLES PRESENT IN LIQUID	Application Number: 201911019244;  Date of Filing: 14-05-2019	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Praveen Kumar, Neha Mishra, Ankur Jaiswar Dr. Deepti Verma,	Certificate Granted (Active)
10	COST EFFECTIVE MICRO IMPEDANCE PUMP FOR LAB ON CHIP APPLICATIONS.	Indian Patent Application Number: 201911039486. Filed on September 30, 2019 Filed via:- Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), India	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Amar Dhwaj	Certificate Granted (Active)
11	A SYSTEM FOR CREATING PRECISE MICROSTRUCTURES BASED ON VARIOUS POLYMERS USING MULTIPLE APPARATUS	Indian Patent Application Number: 202011042433 30/09/2020	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Amar Dhwaj, AKASHDEEP Neha Mishra,	Certificate Granted (Active)
12	A MICRO-SYSTEM WITH MICROHEATER INTEGRATED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FOR INVESTIGATING DIVERSE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS	Indian Patent Application Number: 202011042443 30/09/2020	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Nimisha Roy, Vibhor Gupta, Neha Mishra, Dr. Deepti Verma	Filed
13	CNC MOUNTABLE Z-AXIS, FOR A VERSATILE3D PRINTER MACHINE	Indian Patent Application Number: 328285-001 16/03/2020	Indian Design Patent	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Prashant Nayak, Amar Dhwaj, Ankur Jaiswar	Certificate Granted (Active)
14	MICROFABRICATION OF METAL NANOPARTICLE COATED SHAPE-ENCODED MAGNETIC MICROPARTICLES FOR APPLICATION IN MULTIPLEXED BIOASSAYS AND CHEMICAL CATALYSIS	Application No.: 202211005459; PATENT FILED on 2/1/2022;	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Amar Dhwaj, Ankur Jaiswar, Nimisha Roy, Dr. Deepti Verma	Filed
15	FABRICATION OF FULLY MICRO-VASCULARIZED BIOPOLYMER MATRIX USING VARIOUS SACRIFICIAL MICROSTRUCTURES FOR TISSUE-ENGINEERING AND BIO-MICROFLUIDICS APPLICATIONS	Application No.: 202211005458; PATENT FILED on 2/1/2022;	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Amar Dhwaj, Dr. Deepti Verma	Filed
16	A DEVICE AND METHOD TO DESIGN A COST-EFFECTIVE ORGAN-ON-CHIP PROTOTYPE FOR DRUG TOXICITY TESTING IN LUNG AND LIVER TISSUES;	Australian Innovation Patent: 2021104949 PATENT FILED on 8/4/2021;	Australian Innovation Patent	Dr. Amit Prabhakar, Nimisha Roy, Jyoti Kashyap, Prof Rakesh Kumar Tyagi, Dr. Deepti Verma.	Certificate Granted (Active)
17	ORALLY ADMINISTERED OSMOTIC PUMP FOR DRUG DELIVERY AT A CONTROLLED RATE	Application No.: 202311023284 Filed on: 3/23/2023	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar Komal Sharma Sonal Jaiswal Dr. Deepti Verma	Filed
18	DEVELOPMENT OF A BIOMIMETIC MICROFLUIDIC RESPIRATORY ASSIST DEVICE-UNIT WITH HIGH GAS PERMEANCE	Application No.: 202311023285 Filed on: 3/23/2023	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar Ankur Jaiswar Priyanka Kumari Dr. Deepti Verma	Filed
19	GREEN SYNTHESIZED SILVER NANOPARTICLES IMMOBILIZED POLY (?-CAPROLACTONE) AND NANOCELLULOSE BASED BIOCOMPOSITES FOR WOUND HEALING.	Application No.: 202311020456 Filed on: 3/23/2023	Indian	Dr. Nidhi Mishra Shagun Varshney Amar Dhwaj Dr. Amit Prabhakar	Filed
20	HAND-SIZE THERMO-CYCLER FOR TEMPERATURE-BASED BIO-DIAGNOSTICS CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND OTHER DIVERSE A	Application No.: 202411007600 Date of filing: January 2024	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar Priyanka Kumari Dr. Deepti Verma	Filed
21	A HANDHELD MEDICAL ELECTRO BAND-AID DEVICE FOR ON SPOT WOUND PROTECTION AND HEALING	Application No.: 202411007599 Date of filing: January 2024	Indian	Amar Dhwaj Dr. Amit Prabhakar	Filed
22	COST-EFFECTIVE PAPER-BASED MICROFLUIDICS DEVICE FOR DETECTING MILK ADULTERATIONS IN HEALTHCARE APPRO	Application No.: 202411007435 Date of filing: January 2024	Indian	Dr. Amit Prabhakar Sonal Jaiswal Dr. Deepti Verma	Filed

 

1. “Cost effective techniques for fabricating simple and crossed micro-channels”.
2. “A low voltage - evaporation based micro-pump”.
3. “Cost effective capillary electrophoresis chip with optical absorbance detection method”.
4. “Contact less capacitive detection based Cost effective capillary electrophoresis chip”.
5. “Microfabricated polymer analysis chip with integrated gold nanoparticles monolayer coated waveguides for localized surface plasmon resonance based label free detection”.

 

1. Achieved Institute’s Award for Excellence in Ph.D Thesis for the year 2012, at 50^th convocation of IIT Bombay, held at 18^th August 2012 [Year-2012].
2. Award for the best US patents application, of worth US $10,000 by Intellectual ventures (USA) [Year-2010].
3. Achieved the first prize worth INR 5 lakhs in BEST-India (Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Student Teams)-2010, competition for delivering the best technical idea of CANSENS (Cancer sensing lab on chip device) as a commercial product. The event was sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, and Government of India and was administered by ABLE – India [Year-2010].
4. One of the three finalists selected for “Sushruta Innovation Award-2011” for the most innovative medical device idea / prototype, an initiative of the foundation of MSME clustures, supported by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India [Year-2011].
5. Selected for the semi-final round of Eureka! 2011. It has been independently recognised as Asia’s largest Business Plan Competition. Over 2000 teams from around the world compete for more than INR 2.4 million in cash and prizes [Year-2011].
6. Shortlisted and Invited for the IYBA-2015 Award presentation to present the research proposal on “A Cost Effective Microfluidic Chip With Silver Nanoparticle Coated Polymer Waveguide, for Selective and Enduring Detection of Several Waterborne Pathogens”, which was scheduled at DBT, New Delhi (on 21^st March 2016).
7. Shortlisted and Invited for the IYBA-2016 Award presentation to present the research proposal on “Lab on Chip Device, Consisting of Micro-Lens Shaped Micropillars Array Integrated with Microfluidic Blood Plasma Separation Unit, for Quantum Dots Based Detection of Cancer Biomarkers”, which was scheduled at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Trivandrum (on Monday, March 20, 2017).

 

• Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering Letters.
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Sciences.
• Scientific Reports, Nature.
• EEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
• Optomechatronics
• Micromachines
• Characterization and Application of Nanomaterials

• Delivered an Invited talk on the title/topic: "BioMEMS, & Microfluidics: Technologies and Application" in the “Short Term Course on Emerging Techniques and Applications in Biosciences and Bioengineering Research”, organized at the Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Simrol, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, organized on 22/03/2022.

·Invited lecture on the title: "Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Technology for Chemical and Biological Analysis and Discovery" for an online self-sponsored short term certificate course on “Analytical techniques to study from biomolecules to tissues (ATSBT-2021)” by the Dept. of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad, from 2-4th  July 2021.

• Invited lecture on the title: "Intelligent Biomedical-Micro-Electro-Mechanical System", at STP & FDP cum Workshop on "Intelligent Biomedical-Micro-Electro-Mechanical System". It was a week-long program via On-Line Mode, held from 22-09-2020 to 28-09-2020 at the BioMEMS & Nanotechnology Lab, Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A) in Prayagraj. 
• Invited lecture on the title: "Microfluidics/Lab-on-Chip based point of care diagnostics", at MNNIT Allahabad in the short term training programme on "In vitro Diagnostic Platforms for Biomarker detection”, Feb 18-24, 2019.
• Invited lecture on the title: “Real Life Application of Most Recent Realm of Bio-MEMS Technology“ in a short term course on “Recent Advances in Biofilms and Environmental  biotechnology”  organized by Department of Biotechnology, MNNIT Allahabad during September 21 –27, 2017.
• Invited lecture on the title: "BioMEMS, & Microfluidics: Technologies and Applications" a short term course in BioMEMS/Biosensors and Bio-instrumentation  of one week to be organized in the month of July 2018 from 8th to 14th July 2018 at School of Biomedical Engineering IIT (BHU).
• Rakesh Tripathi, Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, Comparison of micro fabricated C and S bend shape SU-8 polymer waveguide of different bending diameters for maximum sensitivity, International symposium for physics and technology of sensors - 2012, University of Pune, India.
• Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, “A Gold Nanoparticle coated embedded polymer waveguide biosensor”, Biodevices 2011, International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices, Rome (Oral Presentation).
• Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, “Effect of bend radius on the sensitivity of C-shaped embedded polymer waveguide based lab on a chip Biosensors”, 36th International Conference on Micro & Nano Engineering (MNE), held in Genoa, Italy from 19 to 22 September 2010.
• Amit Prabhakar and Soumyo Mukherji, “C-shaped Embedded Polymer Waveguide for Evanescent Field Absorption based Lab on a Chip Biosensor”, 2010 International Conference on Systems in Medicine and Biology, IIT Kharagpur, India.
• Practical demonstration of fabricated Lab on chip device along with Poster presentation during Techfest 2010 from January 22-24, 2010 at IIT Bombay.
• Amit Prabhakar, Sonali Tripathy and Soumyo Mukherji, “A novel approach to micro-total analysis systems”, International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS-09), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (IITB) on 1-5 December 2009.
• Amit Prabhakar, P. Chattopadhyay & D. N. Tibarewala , “Development of a cost effective lactate biosensor”. Emerging Trends in Biomedical Instrumentation (Biomed-2005), 2005, BIT Mesra, India.
• Amit Prabhakar, Deepti Verma and Soumyo Mukherji, Microfluidic Chip Comprising Tapered Waveguides Integrated with Parallelize Microchannels for More Sensitive Chemical and Biological Sensing", 3rd International Conference (ICGTCS-2017) organized by SRM University, Delhi - NCR Campus & Asian Publication Corporation from 8th - 9th December 2017.

 

S. No	Title	Cost in Lakh	Month of submission	Role as PI/Co-PI	Agency
1	Gold Nanoparticle Coated/ Embedded, Colour-Barcoded Magnetic Microparticles for Lab on chip Localized Surface Plasmon Based Label Free Multiplexed Bioassays (SB/FTP/ETA/0126)	48.4	Jan 2015. from: 11 May, 2016 to 10 May, 2020	PI	SERB, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India
2	A Novel Water Purification System with Silver Nanoparticle Coated Micro-Channel Arrangement for Filter Less Purification of Water and Embedded Waveguide for Purity Indicator  ( DST/TM/WTI/2K15/201)	25.00	June 2015. from: 29 Mar, 2016 to 28 Sep, 2019	PI	Water Technology Initiative-2015, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India
3	A Portable Corona-Discharge System with Custom Made Electrodes for PDMS Hydrophilic Treatment & Bonding for Microfluidic Chip Fabrication.	2.5 Lakhs	March 2019 to March 2021	PI	*NewGen IEDC (New Generation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre) Start-up projects
4	Cost-Effective Micro Impedance Pump For Potential Application in the Micro-fluidics & Bio-Medical Domain.	2.5 Lakhs	March 2019 to March 2021	PI	*NewGen IEDC (New Generation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre) Start-up projects
5	Blue EV-low cost custom Electric Bike.	2.5 Lakhs	March 2019 to March 2021	PI	*NewGen IEDC (New Generation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre) Start-up projects
6	Advanced Prosthetics using 3D printing and SEMG.	2.5 Lakhs	March 2019 to March 2021	PI	*NewGen IEDC (New Generation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre) Start-up projects
7	Primary Healthcare Drone for Health Checkups and Sample transportation at remote location	2.5 Lakhs	March 2022 to March 2025	PI	*NewGen IEDC (New Generation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre) Start-up projects
8	'Paper-Microfluidics Technology for the Biomedical Applications and Point-of-Care Devices	2.5 Lakhs	March 2022 to March 2025	PI	*NewGen IEDC (New Generation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre) Start-up projects

 

 

 

3 years and 6 Months (still continuing at IIIT Allahabad) of post Ph.D. Teaching & Research experience. One year of pre Ph.D. teaching Experience.

Sl. No.	Period		Position Held	Organization	Nature of work
	From	To
1.	March 2021	Continuing till date	Associate Professor	Department of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad	Teaching, Research & Development
2.	October 2012	March 2021	Assistant Professor	Department of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad	Teaching, Research & Development
3.	January 2012	October 2012	Post Doctoral Fellow	Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay	Research & Development
4.	July 2005	June 2006	Assistant Professor/ Lecturer	Department of Pharmacy, DIT Dehradun	Teaching

 

Sl. No.	Designation	Period	Nature of Responsibility	Organisation
1	Warden	2013- 2017	Maintenance of healthy administration in hostel:BH-3	IIIT Allahabad
2	Faculty In-Charge (Cultural Council ) IIITA	2013- 2015	Helping and coordinating student for regular organization of cultural activities in institute	IIIT Allahabad
3	DPGC (AS)	2015- Continuing Till Date	Continuation of appropriate academic activities related to PG-courses designed for Bio-Medical Engineering stream in "Dept. of Applied Sciences"	IIIT Allahabad
3	Coordinator, Intellectual Property Rights Cell, IIIT Allahabad	2017- Continuing Till Date	Filing and Record keeping of IPRs (patents and copyrights) of IIIT Allahabad	IIIT Allahabad
4	National Innovation & Start-Up policy, Coordinator, IIIT-A	April 2020 Continuing Till Date	Formulation and Implementation of  National Innovation & Start-Up policy at IIIT-A	IIIT Allahabad

Details of Theory Course[s] taught at UG and PG level

Sl. No.	Name of the Course	Contact hours engaged  per week	No. of Semesters
1	Medical Sensors and Actuators	3+3	2
2	Microfluidics: Physics and Application	3+3	2
3	Biomedical Instrumentation	3+3	1
4	Bio-Mechanics	3	2
5	Human Anatomy & physiology	3+3	3
6	Medical Imaging	3+3	1
7	Bio-MEMS	3+3	1
8	Biosensors and Transducers	3	1
9	Applied Mechanics	3	2
10	Pharmaceutical Inorganic	3+3	1
11	Pharmacutical Organic	3+3	1
12	Pharmacutical Analytical chemistry	3+3	1
13	Biological Databases	3+3	2

Sl. No.	Name of student	Sole-Supervisor /Principal- Supervisor/Co-Supervisor	Institute / Department	Title of  Project	Current Status
1	Neelottma Singh   Year of Enrollment: 2013	Co-Supervisor/ Supervisor-2nd	Dept. of Chemistry, SHIATS Allahabad	Synthesis of Triazole Derivatives and Their Biomedical Applications.	Final Ph.D. Defense Examination completed successfully on 5th March 2019.
2	Neha Mishra   Year of Enrollment: 2015	Principal-Supervisor	Dept. of ECE, IIIT Allahabad	MEMS Based Diverse Innovative Water Technology Initiatives for the Detection and Removal of Water Contaminants.	Work Completed & Open Pre-Submission Seminar was scheduled on 9th August 2019. Approved-copy of "Final Consolidated Report" of the aforesaid Open seminar, received.
3	Nimisha Singh   Year of Enrollment: 2017	Sole-Supervisor	Dept. of AS, IIIT Allahabad	A Hepatic Cell-On-Chip Platform For Drug And Toxicity Testing	Continuing
4	Amar Dhwaj   Year of Enrollment: 2018	Sole-Supervisor	Dept. of AS, IIIT Allahabad	Customization of The 2D/3D CNC-System for the Microfabrication of Precise Polymeric Microstructures used for Biomedical Application	Continuing
5	Sonal Jaiswal Year of Enrollment: 2020	Sole-Supervisor	Dept. of AS, IIIT Allahabad	Paperfluidics Devices for Biochemical Analysis	Continuing
6	Priyanka Kumari Year of Enrollment: 2020	Sole-Supervisor	Dept. of AS, IIIT Allahabad	3-D printed biomaterials for biomedical application	Continuing

Sl. No.	Name of student	Sole-Supervisor /Principal- Supervisor/Co-Supervisor	Institute / Department	Title of  Project	Current Status
1	Dr. Kamal Kishore Upadhaya Year of Enrollment: 2021	Sole-Supervisor	Dept. of AS, IIIT Allahabad	“Optical waveguide based microfluidic Biosensors for detection of viral and bacterial infection”.	Continuing

 

Sl. No.	Title of Thesis	Institute	Name of student[s]	Year
1	Optical Waveguide Temperature Sensor For Microfluidic Application.	IIIT Allahabad	Neha Mishra	2013-2014
2	SU-8 Optical Waveguide Based Chip-Scale Humidity Sensor.	IIIT Allahabad	Vibhor Gupta	2013-2014
3	Design of Novel & Potent Anti Resistant  Herbicides Using Bioinformatics Approaches	IIIT Allahabad	Anurag Pandey	2013-2014
4	Advance Peripheral BUS Design and Verification.	IIIT Allahabad	Prashant Dwivedi	2013-2014
5	Design and development of a Shape-Coded, Magnetic SU-8 Microparticles for Multiplex Bioassay applications	IIIT Allahabad	Amar Dhwaj	2016-2017
6	"Design and development of a novel microdevice for artificial lung application	IIIT Allahabad	Karnika singh	2016-2017
7	Smart microfluidic device with immobilized Silver Nanoparticles and coupled UV Light Source for cost effective water disinfection	IIIT Allahabad	Mehul Agrawal	2016-2017
8	Designing, Development of Efficient and compact microfluidic device with multiple hydrodynamic effects for particle separation	IIIT Allahabad	Praveen Kumar	2016-2017
9	Designing and development of cost effective Lab-on-a-chip device for heavy metal ions Detection	IIIT Allahabad	Juhi Jaiswal	2016-2017
10	Designing, Development of Microfluidic Device With Multiple Hydrodynamic Effects for Complete Water Purification	IIIT Allahabad	Garima Gupta	2017-2018
11	MEMS based drug delivery system	IIIT Allahabad	Rahul Shukla	2017-2018
12	Design, Modelling and Fabrication of Drug Coated and Self Degrading Polymer Microneedles Based Drug Delivery System	IIIT Allahabad	Sunny Sharma	2017-2018
13	Disinfection and Heavy Metals removal using Microfluidic technology	IIIT Allahabad	Ankur Jaiswar	2017-2018
14	Design and Development of Microfluidics Alveolar Unit with High Oxygen Permeance for Possible Artificial Lungs Application	IIIT Allahabad	Vivek Kumar Verma	2017-2018
15	Synthesis of Vitamin E Encapsulated Microemulsion using custom made microfluidic device	IIIT Allahabad	Smriti Sinha	2017-2018
16	Artificial alveolar unit on a chip	IIIT Allahabad	Srijan Sharma	2018-2019
17	Design and development of micromachine for Iontophoresis based Controlled Drug Release.	IIIT Allahabad	Dheeraj Yadav	2018-2019
18	Exploring Electrowetting Effect for Bioanalysis	IIIT Allahabad	Vinita Meena	2018-2019
19	Design and development of MEMs-based Drug Delivery system.	IIIT Allahabad	Rohit Vishwakarma	2018-2019
20	Design and development of Cost-effective Microsystem for Glucose Monitoring.	IIIT Allahabad	Pratyush Singh	2018-2019

Sl. No.	Title of  Project	Institute	Name of student[s]	Year
1.	Development of a Micro-Chip for Reconstituting Organ-Level Lung Functions	IIIT Allahabad	David Hunson Minj, Suraj Tiwari, Saurabh Kumar Gupta, Mehul Agrawal	2014
2.	Development of Optical Platform for Particle Detection in Micro-channel	IIIT Allahabad	Suravi Srivastava, Mohd.Aquib Samad,  Amar Dhwaj, Ekta Pandey	2014
3.	Development of MEMS Based Coulter Counter	IIIT Allahabad	Swapnil Singh, Prerna Pant, Juhi Jaiswal, Ankit Porwal	2014
4.	Breathing Rate Monitor	IIIT Allahabad	Apurva Srivasatava,  Shubhangi Chaudhary, Saurabh Shivalkar,   Anjali Nayak	2014
5.	Blind Helper stick	IIIT Allahabad	Tejaswita Yadav, Praveen Kumar, Jeevigyay Srivastava,  Atul Yadav.	2014
6.	Electromyogram based servo gripper	IIIT Allahabad	Apoorv Chetan, Amar Dhwaj, Mehul Agrawal, Apurva Srivastava	2014
7.	Designing flex sensor for gesture vocalizing	IIIT Allahabad	Praveen Kumar, David Hunson Minj, Ajim Hasan, Shubhangi Chaudhary	2014
8.	Cough electronic monitoring system	IIIT Allahabad	Raavi, Jeevigyay Srivastava, Mohd Aquib Samad, Akanksha Kumari	2014
9.	Osmotic Pump based Drug delivery system	IIIT Allahabad	Raavi, Ayushi Gupta, Arushi Verma, Nimisha Roy, Komal Sharma, Karnika Singh	2015
10.	Drug Emulsion production using microfluidics	IIIT Allahabad	Mehul Agrawal, Amar Dhwaj, Suravi Srivastava, Praveen Kumar, Divakar Badal, Saurabh Shivalkar	2015
11.	PDMS Bonding via a portable, low-cost corona system, for microfluidic chip fabrication	IIIT Allahabad	Rohit Vishwakarma	2017
12.	Electrohydrodynamic Ion Drag Micropump for Microfluidic Application	IIIT Allahabad	Imran beg, Eashwer Ram B	2017
13.	Segmenting ultrasound images of Brachial Plexus using CNN	IIIT Allahabad	Rohit Vishwakarma, Pratyush Singh, Dheeraj Yadav	2018
14.	Advanced prosthetics and EMG sensors	IIIT Allahabad	Prashant Nayak	2018
15.	Paper analytical devices	IIIT Allahabad	Krishna Maurya, Ravula Rooha Sri	2018
16.	Electrowetting-Based Microfluidics for Bio-Analysis	IIIT Allahabad	Vinita Meena	2018

• Organized a one day Webinar on IPR Awareness Program (Under National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM)-2022) on Date: January 24, 2022, Govt. of India Shri Anurag Jain, Secretary, DPIIT, launched the National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) as a part of the government's initiative "Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav "on December 8, 2021.
• "Intellectual Property Rights Cell, IIITA"  with "The Patent Office, Kolkata" under the Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry has successfully organized An "Intellectual Property Rights Awareness Program", on 26th July 2022.
• "Intellectual Property Rights Awareness Program", was   successfully organized on 12 July 2022, under the flagship of the 'Kalam Program for Intellectual Property Literacy and Awareness' (KAPILA) Campaign, hosted by the IPR-Cell, IIIT Allahabad.
• Organised a guest lecture by Prof. Soumyo Mukherji(FNAE, Madhuri Sinha Chair Professor in  Biomedical Engineering, IIT Bombay, India. )
• IIIT Allahabad organized a one day Webinar on IPR Awareness Program (Under National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM)-2022) on Date: January 24, 2022, Govt. of India Shri Anurag Jain, Secretary, DPIIT, launched the National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) as a part of the government's initiative "Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav "on December 8, 2021.
• Successfully organized the two-day workshop (online mode) held from 23^rd to 24^th  February, 2021 on “Intellectual Property Right (IPR)” conducted by IPR Cell IIITA in association with MYCrave Consultancy and services.
• Organized a STP & FDP cum Workshop on "Intelligent Biomedical-Micro-Electro-Mechanical System". It was a week-long program via On-Line Mode, held from 22-09-2020 to 28-09-2020 at the BioMEMS & Nanotechnology Lab, Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A) in Prayagraj. 
• Organizing a STP & FDP cum Workshop on "Artificial Intelligence in Artificial Organs and Bionic Implants. It will be a 3-Days long program via On-Line Mode, to be held on February 2020 at the BioMEMS & Nanotechnology Lab, Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A) in Prayagraj. 

·"Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Workshop-2019", Organized on 16/09/2019 at Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. The workshop aimed to educate the public audiences, i.e. personnel, students, and faculties, so that they could pursue their projects and creativity in the direction of IPR and can develop Intellectual Asset for the Institute.

• "Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) 2018", organized on 14/09/2018 at Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. The workshop aimed to educate the public audiences, i.e. personnel, students, and faculties so that they could pursue their projects and creativity in the direction of IPR and can develop Intellectual Asset for the Institute.

·"Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Workshop-2018", Organized on 23/01/2018 at Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. The workshop aimed to educate the public audiences, i.e. personnel, students, and faculties, so that they could pursue their projects and creativity in the direction of IPR and can develop Intellectual Asset for the Institute.

• “International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BSB-2018)” on 26th to 28th October 2018 at Indian ​Institute of Information Technology Allahabad.. 
• “Workshop on Systems Biology (WSB-2018)” scheduled on 28th October 2018 at Indian ​Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, to impart a hands-on experience in Chip-Seq & RNA-Seq analysis, for educating and enabling researchers from academia and scientific industries.
• BSB-2016 conference, during ​March 4​th​ to 6​th​, 201​6 at Indian ​Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. ​. 
• “Workshop on Systems Biology (WSB-2013)” scheduled on 16th and 17th March 2013 at Indian ​Institute of Information Technology Allahabad,
• Organizers & performers for the Institute’s major annual Musical events (Surbahar and Sur Sandhya) at IIT Bombay.
• International conference IWPSD (Dec 2009) held in IIT Bombay.
• International conference IEDST-2009 and ISEABB-09 at IIT Bombay and first ever In-House Dept. symposium, IIT Bombay
• Cultural-head in the Institute’s student cultural organization at MIT Muzaffarpur, India [2001].

• Clinical diagnostics using various detection based Lab on chip and nanofabricated devices
• Bio-MEMs, Paper based microfluidics, Immunoassay lab-on-a-chip devices, Real-time PCR chip based detection technology, Flow cytometer chip, Cell sorting chip, Cell electroporation,  Cellular -chip for single cell analysis, On chip bacterial growth studies, Blood on chip analysis, Dielectrophoresis (DEP) chip, Electrophoresis chip.
• Biosensing using novel techniques (i.e. based on nanowires, quantum dots etc.) with conventional approaches and conventional techniques with novel approaches.
• MEMS drug delivery systems and micropumps.
• Clinical therapeutics using nanomaterials.
• Implantable biomedical devices.
• Nanotechnology.

Optical waveguide based chemical and biosensors

• Development of various effective designs of micro-channel embedded waveguide (bio) sensors for evanescent wave absorbance based detection.
• Development of effective designs of micro-channel embedded waveguide probes for Refractive Index variation based change in output power detection.
• Development of gold nanoparticles bound waveguide probes for Localized surface Plasmon resonance based (bio)sensing.
• Development of Silver and Gold coated waveguide probes for surface plasmon resonance based (bio)sensing.

Microfabricated Prism based (bio)sensors

• Development of microfabricated prism integrated microfluidic device for surface plasmon resonance based lab on chip (bio)sensing.
• Development of cost effective methods to fabricate microfabricated prism for surface plasmon resonance based lab on chip (bio)sensing.

Electrochemical detection based lab on chip devices

• Design and Fabrication of a Cost Effective Contact Less Capacitive Detection based Microfluidic Chip
• Design and Fabrication of a Cost Effective Electrochemical Detection based Microfluidic Chip
• Design and Fabrication of a Cost Effective conductometric Detection based Microfluidic Chip

Optical detection based lab on chip devices

• Design and Fabrication of A Cost Effective Optical absorption Detection based Microfluidic Chip
• Design and Fabrication of A Cost Effective Fluorescent Detection based Microfluidic Chip

Surface modification techniques to introduce organic functional groups

• Aminosilanization on SU8, PDMS, PMMA, SiO₂, silica core optical fiber and use of crosslinkers.
• Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of thiols on sputtered gold and gold nanoparticle coated substrates.
• Use of Glutaraldehyde as crosslinkers for immobilization of Lactate Oxidase and Glucose Oxidase. 
• Surface functionalization of SU-8 for biosensor applications.

Creating super-hydrophobic surfaces

• Design and Fabrication of Titanium Sputtered SU-8 and PDMS Super-Hydrophobic Surface for Single-Droplet studies.

Immobilization of gold nanoparticles and proteins

• Synthesis of various shape and sized Gold Nanoparticles and Silver nanoparticles.
• Thin films of gold nanoparticles on aminosilanized SiO₂, Glass, SU8, PDMS and PMMA substrates.

Blood plasma separation (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

• Designing microchannels for the separation of blood plasma and blood cells.

Microfluidic cooling system for electronic components (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Software

• Mask designing for microfabricating MEMS devices using AutoCad and CleWin software.
• Waveguide simulations using OptiBPM software.
• Electrophoretic Movement simulation using Simul5 and Peakmaster as well as Microfluidic Simulations using Fluidics software.

Electronic instrumentation

• Development of a miniaturized high-voltage integrated power supply with electrochemical detection system for portable microfluidic systems applications.
• Development of two electrode amperometric instrumentation for hydrogen peroxide/oxygen sensing for oxidase/ dehydrogenase enzyme based biosensing.
• Development of contactless capacity detector instrumentation with Pico-farad detection sensitivity for detection purposes in Capillary Electrophoresis.

Characterization tools

• Surface characterization tools for organic functional group analysis such as FTIR spectroscopy in grazing angle and ATR modes and contact angle meter
• Spectroscopic techniques such as UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy.
• Hands-on experience in advance fluorescence and optical microscopy (Carl Zeiss, Imager Z1 with Apotome)
• Knowledge in characterization tools such as optical spectroscopy, and electron microscopy such as SEM and TEM and microscopy atomic force microscopy (AFM) and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XFS). Hand on experience on Spreeta Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor.

 

List of other projects endeavors:

Project	Work carried	Duration
Polymeric waveguide based (bio)sensors	Novel Design to couple Fluidic channel with polymeric waveguide. Tapered waveguide with open micro-reservoir for biosensing application.	2008-09
Sensors for gas detection	Discussions and suggestions for fluorescence based gas sensing, using optical fiber probes.	2007-09
Urease enzyme immobilized- alginate microparticle coated Fluorescence/absorbance based Urea biosensing.	Designing cost effective polymeric and non polymeric microfluidic flow cells for biosensing related experiments.	2009-10
Development of portable fiber optic biosenser for E.coli sensing	Design of proper flow cell with optical fiber sensor probes for Optoelectronic biosensors for waterborne pathogenic bacteria i.e. E.coli (2007-09), for achieving maximum sensitivity in low sample volume. as well as on proper flow cell with fiber optic sensor probes.	2009-10
Magnetic Nanoparticles for biosensing application	Involved in suggesting role of magnetic nanoparticles for biosensing application and also as a sieve for electrophoretic separations devices by providing technical inputs	2008-10
Development of prism based SPR biosensor.	Partial involvement in this DST project.	2008-10
Cantilever based Biological and chemical sensors	Involved in discussion and suggestion on designing microfluidic flow cell for cantilever based sensor (2008-09)	2008-10
Novel methodologies for exploring Silver nanoparticles their antibacterial effects.	Creating thin films of Silver nanoparticles on aminosilanized SiO2, Glass, SU8, PDMS substrates for their antibacterial effects.	2008-11
Center for excellence in Nanoelectronics	Expertise and Maintenance of FTIR and advanced fluorescence microscope.	2007-10

Course and Projects Seminar Presentations:

• “Biosensor (amperometric) based on hydrogen peroxide/oxygen detection and its principle for Glucose/Glutamate/Lactate Analysis”, 1st credit seminar, M.E. Biomedical Engineering, 2004-05.
• “Drug analysis using Amperometric biosensor having plant tissue biorecepter”, 2nd credit seminar, M.E. Biomedical Engineering, 2004-05.
• “On Physiological Effect of Antiarrhithmic Drugs” , Final year course Project at B.Pharm, 2001 
• “Development of a Cost effective Lactate Biosensor”, Final year project at M.E. Biomedical Engineering, 2004-05.
• “An Approach towards Microminiaturization of Drug Delivery Devices”, 1^st Credit Seminar, BM655, 2006-07.
• “Mems Subretinal implants with Glutamate release”, course project, BM632, BioMedical Microsystem, 2007-08.

• During my seven year tenure as faculty (Assistant Professor) of Department of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad, have been playing a key role in setting up Bio-MEMs and Nanotechnology lab and other Biomedical Engineering Lab with all basic facilities.
• As a senior most member (working as a Post Doctoral Fellow) in the microfluidics research group (headed by Prof. Amit Agrawal), with more than 8 members, my responsibilities and activities included, running and maintaining the instruments of microfluidics lab efficiently and helping/guiding the M.Tech., M.S., PhD students and research assistants.
• For the period of my one year tenure as faculty of Pharmacy in DIT Dehradun, played a key role in setting up Medicinal(Organic)chemistry lab, Medicinal(Inorganic) chemistry lab, Pharmaceutical Physical analysis lab and Human anatomy and physiology lab, with all basic facilities.
• Being the senior most student of the research group (headed by Prof. Soumyo Mukherji), with more than 10 members, my responsibilities and activities in past included:
  • Installing and maintaining critical instruments and equipments of Biophotonics and Microelectronics labs and maintaining the labs with all basic facilities, so that, the bio-sensing experiments can be carried out, effectively.
  • Assistance to my PhD supervisor in few projects and technical presentations.
  • Technical discussions and sharing valuable suggestions with M.Tech./M.S. students and research assistants (of our as well as of other departments) and Coordination with collaborating research groups.

• Achieved Gold medal in various inter hostel athletics event at IIT Bombay. [2007-2008].
• Achieved various medals in diverse cultural events at Institute and inter institute level competitions. [1998-2002].

 

Prof. D.N. Tibarewala (M.E. Supervisor),  Ph.D.

Director, School of Biosciences and Bioengineering,

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India ,

Prof. Amit Agrawal (Post Doc Supervisor)
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,

IIT-Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
Phone: +(91)(22)2576-7516, FAX : +(91)(22)2572-6875
E-mail: amit.agrawal@me.iitb.ac.in

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