Functionalized Smart Nanomaterials for Point-of-Care Testing

About

Amit Kumar Mandal completed his M.Sc and Ph.D. from the University of North Bengal. Before joining Raiganj University as a full-time assistant professor Amit served at Vidyasagar University as an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology under the UGC-Innovative Programme. Presently he is the center-in-charge of the Centre for Nanotechnology Science (CeNS). He has over 10 years of research teaching and administrative experience and more than 70 peer-reviewed publications with three patents with a cumulative impact of nearly 333 as per Journal Citation Report Web of Science. Dr. Mandal has been on the editorial board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed journals like Nature Portfolio Elsevier RSC ACS Frontiers Media SA Springer Nature and PLOS. His major research interests include Chemical Biology and Interactome. He has supervised 2 Ph.D. theses and presently guiding 3 Ph.D. students. He received MRSC from the Royal Society of Chemistry United Kingdom.He was declared a Top 5% highly cited author- in 2020 by the Royal Society of Chemistry.  Recently he was awarded the top cited papers India awards-2022 by IOP Publishings portfolio. He received research grants from DST-SERB to undertake R&D activities. Suvankar Ghorai (Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur India and has been trained as postdoctoral fellow at the New Jersey Medical school and University of Washington at Seattle USA on different aspects of HCV HIV and AIDS. He have been associated with National Center for Cell Science (NCCS) Pune as a research scientist. Before joining at the Raiganj University he served as a research assistant professor at SRM University Tamil Nadu India for more than three years. His area of research interest includes Infection Biology especially viral infection antiviral and low-cost point-of-care diagnostics. He received research funds from several funding agencies like ICMR DBT UGC and MHR. Azamal Husen served as Professor and Head of the Department of Biology University of Gondar Ethiopia and is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University Wolaita Ethiopia. Previously he was a Visiting Faculty of the Forest Research Institute and the Doon College of Agriculture and Forest at Dehra Dun India. Husens research and teaching experience of 20 years encompasses the biogenic nanomaterial fabrication and application plant responses to nanomaterials plant adaptation to harsh environments at the physiological biochemical and molecular levels herbal medicine and clonal propagation for improvement of tree species. He is contributed to R&D projects of World Bank Indian Council of Agricultural Research Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education Japan Bank for International Cooperation etc. He is editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Plant Physiology and a series editor of Exploring Medicinal Plants (Taylor & Francis Group United States);Plant Biology Sustainability and Climate Change (Elsevier United States); and Smart Nanomaterials Technology (Springer Nature Singapore). To his credit are >200 publications.