Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics (CBCMT)
Achievements and Awards
Congratulations to CBCMT VIT faculty, Dr. U Anjaneyulu for receiving the Entrepreneur Award 2025. Dr. Anjaneyulu’s startup, Ingelcure Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd. is incubated in VIT TBI. Ingelcure is an emerging life sciences startup pioneering polymer based, long-acting injectable drug delivery systems. This award was presented to him on the occasion of the celebrations of World Entrepreneur’s Day 2025 on 25th August 2025 at Vellore Institute of Technology. We wish him the best for his entrepreneurial journey.
CBCMT VIT are happy to convey that CBCMT’S research student, Sourangshu Chakraborti, has been appointed as a Lecturer at Ramkrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College on August 2025. Sourangshu received this opportunity soon after submitting his doctoral thesis at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT).
CBCMT VIT are happy to convey that CBCMT’s research student, Rohin Shyam has secured an incredible opportunity as a Bioengineer at Designing Alley, a designing and additive manufacturing company on July 2025. Rohin got this opportunity as soon as he submitted his doctoral thesis at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT).
Our recently graduated alumna Dr. Dhivyaa Anandan has joined as “Research Scientist” in Global Medical Education and Research Foundation (GMERF), Hyderabad on July 2025, which is a subunit of Global Innovation Hub. CBCMT VIT wish her the best for her new journey. Congratulations Dhivyaa Anandan
CBCMT VIT congratulates Dhivyaa Anandan on successfully defending her PhD thesis on 25th April 2025. We are proud of her accomplishments and excited to see the impact she will make in her future endeavours. Wishing you all the best Dhivyaa as you embark on the next chapter of your journey. A special acknowledgment to her thesis supervisor, Prof Amit Kumar Jaiswal, for his invaluable guidance and mentorship throughout this journey.
CBCMT VIT Esteemed Faculty Dr. Arunkumar Pitchaimani for receiving the Best Presentation Award at the EV Societal Conference – EVOLVE on April 2025 held in New Delhi.
CBCMT is delighted to congratulate Dr. U Anjaneyulu, Assistant Professor (Sr.), on his appointment as an Editorial Board Member for BMC Biomedical Engineering on February 2025, published by Springer Nature.
We are delighted to share that our esteemed CBCMT VIT faculty, Dr. Arunkumar Pitchaimani, had the honour of presenting at the HSBC International Conference on Brain Tumour held in Hong Kong on January 18-19, 2025.
CBCMT VIT is happy to share that Dr. Amit Kumar Jaiswal delivered an invited talk at the National Conference on Innovative Strategies for Advancing Biomedical Research, held from January 15th to 17th, 2025, at the School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, Karnataka. Thanks Dr. Amit Kumar Jaiswal for representing CBCMT VIT at this vibrant scientific event.
CBCMT VIT is delighted to share that Diya Pillai. B has secured a PhD position at the prestigious Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA, in February 2025 under the supervision of Dr. Vipuil Kishore. Diya completed her Master’s Project at the CBCMT under the mentorship of Dr. Joseph Nathanael. The CBCMT family is immensely proud of her accomplishments and wishes her all the best as she embarks on this exciting new chapter of her research career.
We are happy to share that Dr. Amit Kumar Jaiswal, professor at theCentre for Biomaterials Cellular and Molecular Theranostics (CBCMT), VIT Vellore, has successfully completed his SIRE (SERB International Research Experience) fellowship 2024. This prestigious fellowship, funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), was carried out at Compass Research Group, CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
We are excited to share that CBCMT’s Director, Prof. Geetha Manivasagam (She/Her), and her international collaborator, Prof. Ketul Popat, at George Mason University, USA, have successfully organized a symposium at the highly esteemed World Biomaterials Conference in 2024 in South Korea. This achievement fills us with immense pride, as it grants us the extraordinary opportunity to represent our esteemed VIT institution in front of the foremost biomaterial scientists from around the globe. Additionally, two of our talented CBCMT PhD scholars, Anupama Devi V K and Sreena Radhakrishnan, presented oral and poster presentations of their invaluable research works on this global platform.
We are excited to share that CBCMT VIT esteemed faulty Dr. ArunKumar Pitchaimani, Dr. Raunak Kumar Das, and their collaborators have been awarded a joint ICMR grant of Rs. 1.33 crore in 2024. Congratulations to them on this outstanding achievement.
CBCMT VIT are happy to share that CBCMT’s research student Anupama Devi V K on receiving the CSIR Foreign Travel Grant for attending the 12th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC-2024) in Deagu, South Korea. This achievement reflects her dedication and commitment to her work.
CBCMT VIT is delighted to announce that CBCMT research student Ceera M has been awarded the CSIR-SRF-Direct Fellowship in 2024. Congratulations to Ceera M and Supervisor Prof. Amit Kumar Jaiswal.
CBCMT VIT, Welcomes Dr. Kokilaramani Seenivasan, as new National Post Doctoral Fellow! We’re excited to have your expertise on board. (SERB NPDF) 2024.
CBCMT is delighted to congratulate Dr. A. Joseph Nathanael Associate Professor (Sr.), on his securing the Faculty Start-up Venture Grant at VIT in 2024.
We are thrilled to share that our PhD scholars at CBCMT VIT have been honored with the DST-INSPIRE award in 2022 & 2023. Their dedication and hard work have truly paid off. Congratulations to the scholars for this well-deserved achievement.
CBCMT VIT is happy to share that Centre for Biomaterials Cellular and Molecular Theranostics (CBCMT), Dr. Arunkumar Palaniappan for being honoured with the prestigious MAHE “Young Scientist Award” 2023 by the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs – India. Dr. Palaniappan received this award during the BioTEX2023 conference, and his remarkable achievement is attributed to his outstanding paper presentation on the topic, “Nano-engineered 3D printed hydrogel patch as a potential combinational therapeutic platform against triple-negative breast cancer cells.
VIT is proud to announce that Dr. Geetha Manivasagam, Professor & Director – Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics (CBCMT) is now a Fulbright Scholar. She was recently awarded by the Bureau of Educational & Cultural affairs of the United States after spending the last 6 months at the USA in 2023.
VIT congratulates the Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics (CBCMT) team for winning the prestigious International Centre for Clean Water (ICCW)’s flagship water hackathon programme, Aquathon2023. The team consisted of two PhD students, Mrs. Kalaipriya R. and Mr. Selvaganapathy G., who were mentored by Dr. Arunkumar Palaniappan.
As a part of quality week in VIT, CBCMT also organized few events for the students in the last week of Feb 2023. We organized a competition for research scholars on Quality Conscience: Doing the Right Thing. The best works were given prizes. Our faculty, Dr. Amitkumar Jaiswal has distributed the prizes to the winners. Our research scholars has participated in teams and among all Ms. Sreena and Ms. Menaga won first prize followed by Mr. Rohin Shyam, Mrs. B. Maya, Mrs. R. Kalaipriya and Ms. S.R.Purnimajayasree won second prize respectively; the second runner-up prize was shared by Mrs. Ceera, Mrs. Divya Anandhan, Ms. Anupama Devi.
CBCMT family is very glad to inform about the achievement of our Team Coagulant (Mrs Dhivyaa Anandan, Mrs Ceera M & Ms. Anupama Devi) had won second prize in the Ideathon event for the theme of “Translational Medicine” organized by Indian Institute of Sciences during 19 to 23rd Jan 2023. Congratulations team.
Fulbright visiting researcher who came to CBCMT to capture circulating tumor cells also captures Mt. Everest’s base.
Prof. Balaji Panchapakesan (left), a Fulbright Fellow with CBCMT, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Vellore, Tamilnadu recently completed a trek to Mount Everest Base Camp. Prof. Panchapakesan is the director of Small Systems Laboratory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA who is currently developing nanotechnology enabled microdevice for capturing circulating tumor cells at CBCMT.
Very proud of you, Prof. Baloo for this great achievement!!
Translating science from bench to bed is always at the heart of the research activities performed at CBCMT. This philosophy was imbibed well by all the members of the CBCMT family, which is evident from the recent achievement of our students. We, at CBCMT, are very happy to share that three of our Ph.D. students, Dhanashree M, Shobana S, Janarthanan V have won the “VIT’s student start-up venture grant” worth INR 40,000 to probe into cytosensors technology for the detection of circulating tumor cells. We congratulate all three students and their mentor, Dr. Loganathan Rangasamy for getting this grant, which will help them further this technology to higher TRLs. Hope to see this great technology shaping as a product soon! Wish the team a very grand success in this project.
We are happy to share our researcher Prof. Geetha Manivasagam’s research on mechanistic understanding of degradation studies on bone implant materials was highlighted by DUCOM Instruments. In their report, DUCOM promotes their instruments capability through the citation of the tribocorrosion work conducted by Prof. Geetha’s research group at VIT. Click the following link to know more.
It gives immense happiness and satisfaction when science translates from lab to market!
We, at CBCMT, VIT Vellore are happy that a project sponsored by a start-up, Svante Group and investigated by one of our faculty, Dr Arunkumar Palaniappan had finally reached market. The product “Naturospray” is a non-toxic green nanotechnology-based spray solution for garments, which have excellent anti-microbial and skin soothening properties. The formulation is found to be effective against several skin ailments such as eczema, psoriasis, and contact dermatitis.
The principal investigator of this consultancy project, Dr. Arunkumar is really excited about the translation of this nanotechnology-based product from his lab to market. He is thankful to the institute for giving the required facilities to execute this project in a time bound manner even during pandemic time. We congratulate Dr. Arunkumar and his team on this success and wish the startup team a great success ahead.
Svante Group, a startup founded by Ms. Isha Aggarwal and Ms. Kavya Bhupal with a vision of providing holistic clothing solutions using green technologies. The project involves developing a green nano-formulation as a spray solution for textile fabrics. The main novelty of the project is that the nano-formulation is synthesized with plant-based active ingredients and with safe biomaterials, which is found to have good anti-microbial properties and skin soothening properties.
CBCMT family is very glad to inform about the recent achievement of our graduate student, Mrs.Pearlin Amaan Khan, who had won the prestigious SASTRA – SAROJ CHANDRASEKHAR Memorial Award accorded by SASTRA University.
The award which includes a certificate and 1 Lakh rupees is instituted by the Chandrasekhar Foundation for women doctoral scholars in their final years of Ph.D. with exemplary achievements in the fields of biosciences and biotechnology. The award is in honor of the late Prof. Saroj Chandrasekhar, who had made remarkable contributions in the field of tuberculosis research.
From a pile of applicants, the award committee members had shortlisted ten finalists and interviewed them for their research acumen and impact of the contribution. The selection committee comprised of Dr. Prasanna Chandrasekhar (Chandrashekar Foundation, New Jersey, US), Prof. Niharika Nath (New York Institute of Technology, US); Prof. Adeline Princy Solomon (SASTRA University, India), and Prof. Vijayalakshmi Mahadevan (Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, India). The committee selected three winners and awarded them 1 lakh rupees each. Congratulations, Mrs. Pearlin and wish you more success ahead!
We are happy to announce that AZO materials have reviewed our recent publication titled “Tissue Engineering with 3D-Printed Bioactive Glasses” by CBCMT team guided by our faculties Dr. Joseph Nathanael and Dr. Loganathan Rangasamy. Kindly to read more about the news click on the link attached (https://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=58857) and to view our publication click on the DOI attached https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14081627
CBCMT family is very glad to inform about the achievement of our scholars Mrs Dhivyaa Anandan, Mrs Ceera M, Ms. Anupama Devi, and Ms. Pritisha S Khillar had won third prize in the Ideathon event for the theme of “Bioinnovation for sustainable future” organized by REVA University on June 6 2022. Congratulations team.
We are happy to share the news that the Director of Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics has received a fund of 4,065,365 lakhs from TATA Steel Advanced Material Research for a period of 2years (2022-2024). We extend our heartiest congratulations for our director for this achievement.
Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics (CBCMT), Vellore Institute of Technology, India, is glad to share that our Director Dr. Geetha Manivasagam has received a prestigious Fullbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, 2022-2023 for the project on “3D Printing of personalized bone implants and their testing using microfluidics integrated 3D bioprinted osteomyelitis model”. We extend our heartiest congratulations to our director for the achievements.
Our director, Prof. Geetha Manivasagam never ceases to inspire us! We, at CBCMT are very happy and proud to inform that Prof. Geetha Manivasagam has received one of the most prestigious and highly-recognized fellowships, Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (awad no. 2754/F-N APE/2022).
Through this fellowship, she will be travelling to a biomedical innovation hub at LA, California – Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI), for a six-month long stay. She will be hosted by a well-known biomaterial and tissue engineering expert, Dr. Ali Khademhosseini, who is the CEO of TIBI. Her visit to TIBI will further strengthen our collaboration between CBCMT and TIBI. She will be exploring the immunomodulatory aspects of our 3D printed personalized bone implants using the 3D in vitro tissue models developed at TIBI.
On behalf of our CBCMT family, we extend our heartiest congratulations and bon voyage to our beloved director, Prof. Geetha Manivasagam. Congratulations and thank you for keeping us inspired as usual! Looking forward to learning more from you after you come back from your trip!
It is a proud moment for all the members of CBCMT family. Our director, Prof. Geetha Manivasagam was listed as one of the top 2% scientist in material science. She is one of the 48 scientists from VIT who got this credit for this year. Congratulation ma’am! Very inspiring for all of us.
We congratulate our graduate student Mr. Uvanarayanan for receiving Raman Research Award, a prize money (Rs.13000) awarded by VIT for publishing in a good impact journal. Congratulations Mr. Uvanarayanan and his mentor Dr. Suya Prem Anand.
We had an excellent and thought provoking talk by Prof. Dr. Lakshmi S Nair, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, UConn Health Center, which was jointly organized by Academic Research office and CBCMT on 19-10-2022. Prof. Nair presented the talk on Translational Research, in which she took us through various phases in translational research with many examples and case studies. It was very well received by students and faculties across the campus. Thank you Prof. Nair for such an insightful talk.
Dr. Loganathan Rangasamy (19680) and Dr. A Joseph Nathanael (19682) attended the 13th DBT- Ramalingaswami (DBT-RLS) Re-entry Fellowship Conclave held at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram on 30, November – 3, December 2022. It is a kind of review meeting for the DBT-RLS Fellows. They presented their DBT project work-progress as a poster presentation. DBT panel members reviewed and appreciated their progress.
CBCMT family is very glad to inform about the achievement of our scolars Mrs Dhivyaa Anandan, Mrs Ceera M, Ms. Anupama Devi, and Ms. Pritisha S Khillar had won third prize in the Ideathon event for the theme of “Bioinnovation for sustainable future” organized by REVA University on June 6 2022. Congratulations team.
We are happy to share the news that the Director of Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics has received a fund of 4,065,365 lakhs from TATA Steel Advanced Material Research for a period of 2years (2022-2024). We extend our heartiest congratulations for our director for this achievement.
Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics (CBCMT), Vellore Institute of Technology, India, happy to share and congratulates Dr. Cheirma Durai K for securing the prestigious DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellowship 2022 in Basic medical sciences, 2022-2027. His early career project is focused on developing “Injectable hydrogel based novel therapeutics for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”. We are all very proud of you. Keep it up!
Centre for Biomaterials, Cellular and Molecular Theranostics (CBCMT), Vellore Institute of Technology, India, is glad to share that Assistant Professor Senior Dr. Sushma Kumari who has recently our centre has been selected for DST-INSPIRE faculty award in Material Sciences, 2022-2027 for research grant of 35 lakh in the field of “Biomaterial-based Biomimetic Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications”. We extend our heartiest congratulations and looking forward for a wonderful journey with you
Prof. Amit Kumar Jaiswal was awarded the Young Scientist’s Research Award (YSRA) by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) for the year 2022.
CBCMT family is very glad to inform about the achievement of our scholar Ms. Purnimajayasree S.R won the second runner-up prize in the oral presentation in an international conference on Biotechnology and Information Technology in Drug Discovery and Development (ICBITDDD 2022), organized by Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu on 26th June 2022.
Our research scholar, Ms. Anupama Devi K.S. won the third prize in the quiz competition conducted during the event “Hands-on Experience on instruments & Techniques for 3D printer, cell culture and nanotechnology-based drug delivery” at NIPER, Hyderabad, Date: 5-7th April, 2022.
Our research scholar, Ms. Anupama Devi K.S has received Raman Research Award for the publication of the review paper entitled “Self-healing hydrogels: Preparation, Mechanism, and Advancement in Biomedical Applications” in Scopus indexed journal.
CBCMT Quality Week – Articulate Your Research Story As a part of quality week in VIT, CBCMT also organized few events in the last week of January 2022. We organized a competition for research scholars on articulating their research. The best works were given prizes. Our director, Prof. Geetha Manivasagam distributed the prizes to the winners. Our research scholar, Mr. Amey and Mr. Vasanth won the first and second prizes respectively; the second runner-up prize was shared by Mrs. Ceera and Mr. Rohin.
DST INSPIRE Award CBCMT family Congratulates Kalaipriya R and Iswarya Shanmugam on receiving the prestigious award, DST-INSPIRE “Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research” fellowship offered by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi for 5 years! Wishes to their mentors Dr. Arunkumar Palaniappan and Dr. Arunkumar Pitchaimani for guiding the scholars to come up with compelling proposals!
Full bright Fellowship: We, at CBCMT are very happy and proud to inform that our scholar Mrs. Pearlin Hameed has received one of the most prestigious and highly-recognized fellowships, Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship 2021-2022
Taiwan Experience Education Program (TEEP) We, at CBCMT are very happy and proud to inform that our scholar Mr. G. Selvaganapathy has received one of the prestigious and recognized fellowship, Taiwan Experience Education Program (TEEP) to work at National Taipei University of Technology for a period of 6months (Jan 2023-Jun2023).
DST-STUTI Training Program Our Research scholars, Mr. G. Selvaganapathy, Ms. S.R. Purnimajayasree, Mr. V.T. Haresh Kumar got selected to attend fully funded DST- STUTI (Department of Science and Technology – Synergistic Training Program Utilizing the Scientific and Technological Infrastructure) Training program for a period of one week.
Mr. G. Selvaganapathy got trained in Modern Spectroscopic, Thermal and Microscopic Techniques at Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune during 21-27 September 2022.
Ms. SR Purnimajayasree got trained in Material Characterization Techniques at Pondicherry University during 17th – 23rd October 2022.
Mr. VT Haresh kumar got trained in Materials Characterization Techniques at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara during 21st – 27th November 2022.
Our Research Scholar, Mr. Rohin Shyam was one of the 10 applicants who got selected among 250 applicants to attend the Hands-on training: Stem cell techniques at IN-STEM, Bangalore funded by DBT (Department of Biotechnology) during 16th -20th May 2022.
Our Scholars, Mr. VT. Haresh Kumar, Mr B Unnikrishnan, Mr. V. Janarthanan, Ms. S. Shobana got selected to attend training on Machine learning based approach for the identification of biomarkers and for drug discovery which is going to held at National Institute of Technology, Durgapur during 12th – 18th December 2022.
Faculty Awards
- Dr. Geetha Manivasagam received an award from Mother Teresa University for the contribution in field of Materials Science, 2021
- Dr. Joseph Nathanael – DBT Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship – 2020
- Dr. N. Arunai Nambiraj – Erasmus – France UFRT, France – 2017.
- Dr. Loganathan: DBT Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship (2020 – 2025)
- Dr.Murugan Ramalingam –ASEM-DUO-India Professor Fellowship 2020
- Dr. Geetha Manivasagam, Spain (Erasmus), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Almadén, Spain 2019 , Excellence in Sponsored Research 2019-2020
- Dr. Raunak Kumar Das, UNSW, Sydney, Australia- 1 Year (Sept 2017- July 2018)- by DBT
- Dr. Sushma Kumari DST-INSPIRE faculty award in Material Sciences, 2022-2027
Students Awards
International Fellowships
- Ms. Pearlin Hameed – William Fullbright Fellowship – 2021 – 2022.
- Ms. Amy Sarah – Sandwich Doctoral Exchange Program – Bar Ilan University- Israel – 2021-2022
- Mrs. N. Jayashree – DORA plus scholarship funded by European Regional Development Fund , Estonia (10 months) 2020-2021.
- Mr. Magesh S (MS) – Harriman Award for PhD Studies, University of Ireland.
- Ms. Kirthi Tiwari – BIOREMIA award for PhD studies – Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy.
- Mr. Chaitanya Vinay – Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship, Purdue University, USA – 2020.
- Mr. Jithin Vishnu – IFW Research Scholarship- Leibniz Institute, IFW, Germany – 2019-2020
- DoRa Plus scholarship funded by European Regional Development Fund, Tallinn University of Technology-10months- Ms.Pearlin, 2019-2020
- Newton Bhaba fellowship – Ms. Erfath Thanjeem Begum -4 months in University of Glasgow, 2019
- Mr. Jitin Vishnu- PROM project funded by polish national agency for academic exchange (NAWA) at Nicolas Copernicus University in Toren, Poland. (Agreement number: PP1/PRO/2019/1/00015/U/00001) Professor: Aleksandra Radke.
Competition Awards
- Mr. Venkatesh Katari – SERB Merit Certificate , 21st rank in All India Level ACS Publication Poster Competition.
- Mr. Jitin Vishnu- Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) 2019, DST for his popular science story entitled “Nano-Army and the Bacterial Downfall”. AW/2019/904.
- VIT Awards: Best Stall Award on Engineers Day 2019 to CBCMT
- DST International travel award -2019– Divya Anand; Sudhakar
- Recipient of Best Poster Award by RSC in BioMET-2018 under stem cell category-Ms. Pearlin, 2018.
- Recipient of Best Poster Award by SBOAI in BioMET-2018 -Divya Anand,2018
- Recipient of Best Poster Award, ICOLD Mr.Magesh S, 2018
- VIT Awards: Best Stall Award on Engineers Day 2018 to CBCMT
Research Fellowships
- CSIR – SRF – Mr. Vinod Kumar Reddy and Ms. Madhubanti Mullick (Fellowship Award)
- CSIR – SRF – Mr. G. Vasanth, Mrs. M.Ceera, Mr. V. Chaitanya Vinay.
- ISRO – SRF – Mr. K. Praveen
- CSIR – JRF – Mr. A.R.Ansheed
- SMAT – JRF – Ms . Ritu Singh Rajput and Ms. K. Shoma Suresh.
- CSIR SRF Awards- 5 Ph.D Students in 2018, 2019
- Dr. Cheirma Durai K DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Early Career Fellowship 2022
