This book presents select proceedings of the North East Research Conclave (NERC 2022). The book mainly covers research related to healthcare and related technologies. The book can be a valuable reference for beginners, researchers and professionals interested in the field of healthcare and related technologies.
Prof. Lalit M. Pandey is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He was awarded an Erasmus Mundus India4EU fellowship to pursue research at the Laboratoire des Matériaux et du Génie Physique (LMGP), Grenoble-INP, France from 2010 to 2012. Before joining the IIT Guwahati, he worked as a Scientist with the Central Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India from 2009 to 2014, and researched on water and air pollution in agro-based industries. He has received several awards, including the BRSI Malaviya Memorial Award (Young Faculty) 2020, Shastri Covid-19 Pandemic Response Grant (SCPRG) 2020, the DST-UKIERI Award (2018), the IEI (The Institution of Engineers [India]) Young Engineers Award (2017), Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Faculty Award (2014) and an Early Career Research Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. His main research interests include biointerfaces and biomaterials, biochemical engineering, and environmental biotechnology. He has published over one hundred three research articles in international journals, more than thirty three book chapters and serves on the editorial board of five international journals. He is serving as Associate Editor in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. He has co-edited three books, titled “Biointerface Engineering: Prospects in Medical Diagnostics and Drug Delivery”, “Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery: Principles and Potential” and “Nanoscale Engineering of Biomaterials: Properties and Applications”, published by Springer Nature. He is a life member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), and Nano and Molecular Society (India), and serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Raghvendra Gupta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and an Associate Faculty at the Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology and Centre for Sustainable Polymers at IIT Guwahati. He obtained B Tech in Chemical Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (now HBTU), Kanpur, UP, India and M Eng in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. After working for few years in the industry, he joined for PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Before joining Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Guwahati in 2014, he worked at University of Sydney, Institute of High Performance Computing, A-STAR, Singapore; BITS Pilani, K K Birla Campus, Goa. He is interested in understanding transport processes in different chemical process equipment and systems, physiological systems and biomedical devices. He has extensively worked on the flow and heat transfer in two-phase systems in microchannels using a synergistic combination of experimental, theoretical and computational techniques. In health sciences, he is particularly interested in understanding transport processes in cardiovascular and pulmonary system. He has more than thirty publications in International journals and serves as a reviewer for a number of International Journals.
Dr. Rajkumar P. Thummer is as an Assistant Professor and is a Principal Investigator of the lab “Laboratory for Stem Cell Engineering and Regenerative Medicine” at IIT Guwahati, India. He did his B. Pharm from Anand Pharmacy College, Anand, Gujarat, and then obtained his Master's in Biotechnology from the University of Essex, UK. Later, he completed his PhD in Stem Cell Biology from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands in the year 2010. Further, he gained more than three years of postdoctoral research experience at the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany and then moved back to India at IIT Guwahati. His specialization is in Stem Cell Biology with an experience of more than 15 years. He is the recipient of the Young Scientist Award by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He has published several manuscripts in national and international peer-reviewed journals and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of many journals.
Dr. Rajiv K. Kar is an Assistant Professor at Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology, IIT Guwahati. He obtained B.Pharma in Pharmaceutical Sciences from BPUT, Odisha and M.S. from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) with a specialization in informatics. He received his PhD from Bose Institute, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. While working as a Doctoral scholar, he designs anti-freeze peptides, which now have proven utility in medical cryopreservation. Other areas of his thesis include antimicrobial and anti-amyloid peptides, which later won him the Jharna Rani Samal Best PhD student award from the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society of India at IISc, Bangalore, in 2016. He did a Post-doc in quantum mechanics at Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI). His post-doctoral research was supported by Lady Davis (2017-2020) Trust as Shunbrun Post-Doctoral Fellowship and Arskin Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Later he worked as a Scientist at Technische Universitat Berlin, where he focused on applying advanced simulations and data science methods to biological systems. Einstein Foundation Berlin financially supported his research in Germany (2020-2021). His current research at IIT Guwahati includes developing biomarker detection processes for point-of-care diagnostics and translating them into suitable sensors and medical devices. It consists of an application-oriented approach with experimental biotechnology, nanotechnology, and computational spectroscopy. He authored more than 35 original research and five review articles in journals of international repute.
