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Jan 2025

Shrihari (ChemE 2025) receives Best Project of the Year and Best Project by Popular Choice Awards from the Department of Chemical Engineering at SIT. Way to go !! 

Deeksha (ChemE 2026) receives the prestigious Sigma Xi Grant of USD 2500 (Rs. 2.16 lakhs) for vision research from Sigma Xi, USA. She is the only Indian to get it this year. Many congrats to her!!

Nov 2024

Shrihari (ChemE 2025) receives Icon Excellence Award for Best Paper Presentation at the 14th International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management - Circular Economy & IPLA Global Forum 2024 (IconSWM-CE & IPLA GF).

Sep 2024

Saraswathi BL (ChemE 2025) won Best Project Award in Chemical Engg in Healthcare category and Shrihari MS (ChemE 2025) won the Second Best Project Award in the Green Chemical Engg category at the National Level Students Chemical Engineering Congress (SChemCon 2024) organized by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh.

July 2024

Namratha receives a research intern position in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad to work on microfluidic-based synthesis of nanoliposomes. Congrats !!

May 2024

Suraj receives a research internship in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IISc Bangalore to work on microfluidic-based point of care biomedical devices. Congrats !!

Shrihari (ChemE 2025) gets a research internship at the Center for Sustainable Technologies at IISc Bangalore. Congrats !!

Suraj and Deepika (both ChemE 2024) receive Second Best Project of the Year at the IIChE-BRC Project Competition. Many congrats !!

Two projects done by Deepika and Suraj (both ChemE 2024) / Namratha and Meghashree (both Biotech 2024) and Karthik and Namitha (both ChemE 2024) receive the Best Projects of the Year award from the Dept of Chem Engg at SIT. Way to go !!

Apr 2024

Dr. Tanusree Saha joins the lab as Research Associate (Postdoc) in the DBT-funded project on Cancer Immunotherapy. Welcome !! 

Mar 2024

Deekshith and Madeeha (both ChemE 2024) receive the IIChE-BRC Student Project Grant for the Lithium Ion Sieve project. Congrats!! 

Deepika TG (ChemE 2024) gets Finaslist position in oral presentation at AZeotropy conference, IIT Bombay. Congrats !! 

Feb 2024

Anjana and Kavya join the lab as Project Manager and Junior Research Fellow (JRF), respectively in the DBT-funded project on Cancer Immunotherapy. Welcome !!

Dr. Sudhir delivers presentations at the Nature Conference on Nanomaterials in Biomedical Applications organized by Nature Publishing Group and MAHE Manipal.

Jan 2024

Namratha (Biotech 2024) receives the prestigious Sigma Xi Grant of USD 2500 (Rs. 2.08 lakhs) for vision research from Sigma Xi, USA. She is the only Indian to get it this year.  Many congrats to her!!

Dec 2023

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath delivered an invited talk on Qualities of a Scientific Mind organized by Science Forum, Government First Grade College, Tumkur

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath delivered an invited talk and was part of a panel discussion at the first International Summit on Progress in Regenerative and Investigational Medicine (PRIME) 2024 organized by Narayana Netralaya, Bangalore

Suraj K S (ChemE 2024) received Second Prize for Poster Presentation at the first International Summit on Progress in Regenerative and Investigational Medicine (PRIME) 2024 organized by Narayana Netralaya, Bangalore. Many congrats to him !!

Oct 2023

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath receives a research grant of ₹3.36 crores from the Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India) for 3 years to work on glioblastoma immunotherapy research in collaboration with NIMHANS, Bengaluru.

Our work on fusogenic liposome-coated nanoparticles for rapid internalization into donor cornea is accepted for publication in Nanoscale Advances published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. HUGE Congrats to Suraksha and team !!

Sep 2023        

Karthik Banakar and Namitha P (both ChemE 2024) receive Research Internship at the Center for Sustainable Technologies, IISc Bangalore

Suraj KS (ChemE 2024) and D Sharanya (Biotech 2024) receive Research Internship at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad

Namratha and Shreya Gedigeri (Biotech 2024) receive Research Internship at the Department of Neurochemistry, NIMHANS, Bangalore

Deekshith R and Karthik Banakar (both ChemE 2024) won Best Project Award in two different categories (Biochemical Engg & Alternate Energy) at the National Level Students Chemical Engineering Conference (SChemCon 2023) organized by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) in Tamil Nadu.

Aug 2023          

Lab publishes a review article in the journal Interdisciplinary Medicine in collaboration with Western University, Canada on Engineering multifunctional adhesive hydrogel patches for biomedical applications. Congrats!!

June 2023       

Rachana C/Shreya R and Suraksha TS/Samarth V (all ChemE 2023) receive IIChE-BRC Student Project Grant of Rs. 5000/- each for their undergraduate research projects.

Shreya Gedigeri (Biotech 2024) receives Research Internship at Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. HUGE Congrats !!

May 2023       

Lab publishes a research article in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics in collaboration with Indiana University, USA on Grading the Severity of Damage to the Perijunctional Actomyosin Ring and Zonula Occludens-1 of the Corneal Endothelium by Ensemble Learning Methods. Congrats!!

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath delivered an Invited Lecture at Samskara-PG Orientation Program at Ashwini Medical College, Tumkur

March 2023

Suraksha TS (ChemE 2023) receives Third Prize in poster presentation at the 14th International Conference on Advancements in Polymeric Materials, organized by the Govt. of India (Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers) and CIPET, Bengaluru. Many Congrats !!

Deepika TG (ChemE 2024) gets Second Prize in oral presentation at Chemplus Conference, IIT Madras. HUGE Congrats !!

Rachana, Karthik, Deekshith, Suraj, Samarth (ChemE undergraduate students of our lab) present their research work at AZeotropy Conference, IIT Bombay

Feb 2023

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath is elected as a Full Member of the Sigma Xi, which is world’s largest and most prestigious scientific research honor society.

Our research article is published in the Journal of Liposome Research on the Evaluation of suitability and detection range of fluorescent dye-loaded nanoliposomes for sensitive and rapid sensing of wide ranging osmolarities. Congrats to Debjyoti Roy and Gangaram Udugiri (both undergraduate ChemE students) !!

Suraksha TS (ChemE 2023) , Namratha and Meghashree BM (Biotech 2024) give poster presentations at the Annual Biosciences and Bioengineering Symposium at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

Jan 2023 

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath delivered an invited lecture on Nanotechnology interventions to tackle eye diseases at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay

Our research article is published in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics in collaboration with Indiana University, USA on the role of oxidative stress on the disruption of the endothelial apical junctional complex during corneal cold storage. Congrats to Anupama C (Research Scholar) !!

Dec 2022

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath visits IIT Bombay to work on the development of PDMS-based microstructures for biomedical applications as a part of the prestigious INSA Visiting Scientist Fellowship from Indian National Science Academy.

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath delivered an invited lecture on the effect of oxidative stress on corneal endothelium at the Bioscience Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Mumbai

Debjyoti Roy (ChemE 2022) joins IIT Bombay as a research assistant to work on organ-on-chip project.

Oct 2022

Department of Chemical Engineering and Bio-INvENT Lab hosts Prof. William B Krantz (Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, USA) as the Fulbright-Nehru Specialist from October to November 2023. The program was fully funded by the US-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) and the Fulbright Foundation, USA.

Archana V (Biotech 2024) completed her internship under the prestigious Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship (IASc SRFP 2022) at University of Lucknow. HUGE congrats!!

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath gets an international patent published by the International Bureau of WIPO, Switzerland on Nano plant defense.

Sep 2022

Lab publishes a research article in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics in collaboration with Indiana University, USA on the role of oxidative stress on the disruption of the endothelial apical junctional complex during corneal cold storage. Congrats!!

Lab publishes a research article in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics in collaboration with Indiana University, USA on the Experimental oxidative stress breaks down the barrier function of the corneal endothelium. Congrats!!

Thanuja MY (Research Scholar) successfully defends her thesis titled Development & characterization of natural and synthetic nanovesicles for therapeutic & biosensing applications. Many congrats to her!!

Lab welcomes Dr. Sunitha K as a postdoctoral research fellow.

Dr. Sudhir delivers an invited talk on Biochemical insights into the adverse effects of cold storage on the barrier function of donor corneal endothelium at the National Symposium on Recent Trends in Biochemistry, organized by Tumkur University.

Aug 2022

Rachana & Shreya (both ChemE 2023) get research internship at the Center of Sustainable Technologies at IISc Bangalore for two months.

Samarth (ChemE 2023) get research internship at the at IIT Hyderabad for two months.

July 2022 

Chandan V & Keerthana GS (ChemE 2022) receive First prize for Oral presentation at REACT 2022 Conference, RVCE Bangalore

Debjyoti Roy & Gangaram Udugiri (ChemE 2022) get Innovative Student Project Grant from VTU, Belagavi

Debjyoti Roy & Gangaram Udugiri (ChemE 2022) get Third prize for poster presentation at the National Conference on Science & Technology for Start-ups jointly organized by KSTA, Govt. of Karnataka and SIT, Tumkur

Debjyoti Roy & Gangaram Udugiri (ChemE 2022) get Second Best Project Award from the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers - Bangalore Regional Centre (IIChE-BRC)

Mahima N Bontadka (ChemE 2022) receives Best Outgoing Student Award from the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers - Bangalore Regional Centre (IIChE-BRC)

Lab publishes a research article in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics in collaboration with Indiana University, USA on Nanoliposomes for sensing local osmolarity of the tear film on the ocular surface. Congrats!!

Thanuja (PhD student) gets a postdoctoral research fellow position at the world renowned Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, USA. HUGE congrats!!

May 2022

Dr. Sudhir gets the prestigious INSA Visiting Scientist Fellowship from the Indian National Science Academy. As part of this, he will visit IIT Bombay to work in collaboration to develop micropatterns using photolithography and microfluidics for biomedical applications.

April 2022         

In collaboration with Indiana University and ISS Inc, USA, our lab is part of a publication Depth-resolved fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy across the cornea in digital frequency domain, published in the SPIE Conference held in USA on Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences

March 2022          

Dr. Sudhir was a member in the panel discussion on current education scenario and development conducted during Education Expo organized by Pragathi TV, Tumakuru

Feb 2022       

Dr. Sudhir delivered an invited talk on Nanotechnology interventions to tackle challenges in Ophthalmology at the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT, Hyderabad

Dec 2021

Suraksha TS (ChemE 2023) receives the prestigious MITACS Globalink Research Internship. She will be working in Dr. Ryan Wylie's lab at the McMaster University, Canada in the summer of 2022. HUGE congrats to her!!

Oct 2021

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath receives a research grant of ₹4.12 crores from the Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India) for 3 years to work on glioblastoma immunotherapy research in collaboration with NIMHANS, Bengaluru.

Sep 2021

Lab publishes a research article in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics in collaboration with Indiana University and University of Colorado, USA on the effect of oxidative stress on microtubules and the barrier function of corneal endothelial cells. Congrats!!

Aug 2021

Dr. Sudhir delivered a lecture on nanoparticle-based prophylactic drug delivery to the corneal endothelium at the School of Optometry, Indiana University, USA

June 2021

Lab publishes a research article in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics in collaboration with Indiana University, USA on nanoparticle-mediated microtubule stabilization overcomes hypothermia-induced barrier dysfunction in corneal endothelial cells. Congrats!!

April 2021

Tejaswini and Vinayak (ChemE 2021) receive Student Research Grant from the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), Bangalore Regional Center. Many congrats!!

March 2021 

Dr. Sudhir delivered an invited lecture at the COMSOL Day Conference organized by COMSOL Multiphysics Pvt Ltd, India

Suraksha TS (ChemE 2023) receives the prestigious Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship (IASc SRFP 2021) and she will be interning at IISc Bangalore. HUGE congrats!!

Mahima NB and Prajna A (ChemE 2022) receive the Third prize for Oral presentation at AZeotropy 2021 at  IIT Bombay. Many congrats!!

Anupama C (Research Scholar) receives ARVO Foundation Travel Grant from ARVO, USA to present her research work at the ARVO Annual Meeting 2021. Many Congrats!!

Dec 2020

Anjana Rammohan & Apeksha Devadiga (Biotech 2021) receive Third prize for Oral presentation at the Bioengineering Conference at NIT Rourkela.

Mahima N B (ChemE 2022) receives MITACS Globalink Research Internship. She will be working in Dr. Arghya Paul's lab at the University of Western Ontario, Canada in the summer of 2021.

Nov 2020

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath receives Roche Collaborative Research Fellowship 2020 from the Association for Research in Vision Science & Ophthalmology (ARVO), USA!! This fellowship is given to only three researchers from developing countries of the world every year.

ARVO Foundation Announces Winners of Roche Collaborative Research Fellowship

Roche Collaborative Research Fellowships

Sep 2020

A joint research project on Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein gets funding of Rs.25 lacs from VGST (Govt. of Karnataka) to PI: Dr. Prasanna DR, (Biotech Dept of SIT) and Co-PI: Dr. Sudhir Ranganath (Bio-INvENT Lab)!!

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath publishes one of his postdoc research studies on prostate cancer therapy in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins University, USA

Jul 2020

CSIR-Summer Research Training Program 2020 organized by NEIST-CSIR selects Dr. Sudhir Ranganath as an external mentor.

May 2020

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath delivers a Webinar on Entrepreneurship at the MHRD-Institute Innovation Council of SIT Tumkur

Mar 2020

Sachin Moger wins First Prize in oral presentation, Chandan V and Shreyas K V win First and Second Prize in poster presentation at Chemplus 2020, IIT Madras. Congrats!!

Feb 2020

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath delivered an invited talk at the Society for Free Radical Research (SFRR) - India Annual Meeting 2020, BARC, Mumbai.

Dr. Sudhir Ranganath selected as a Young Investigator at the Young Investigators' Meeting organized by IndiaBioscience.

An article titled "The circle of trust and mentoring in a YI's journey" by Dr. Sudhir Ranganath published by IndiaBioscience. https://indiabioscience.org/columns/journey-of-a-yi

Dec 2019

Thanuja MY (Research Scholar) wins Young Investigator Merit Prize at the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Singapore. Congrats!!

Controlling Mesenchymal Stem Cell Activity With Microparticles Loaded With Small Molecules