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.

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.

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.