Principal Investigator

Dr. Santosh Kumar Misra

Assistant Professor

Ramalingaswamy Fellow

Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India

Phone: 91-512-259-4013 (office)

Fax: 91-512-259-4010

Email: skmisra@iitk.ac.in

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qP9e2NYAAAAJ&hl=en

Research experience

2018- Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur, India

2016-2018 Research Scientist; Dept of Bioengineering, UIUC, Urbana, IL, USA

2013-2016 Post doc; Dept of Bioengineering, UIUC, Urbana, IL, USA

2012-2013 Project Associate; Indo-French collaboration grant, Dept of Organic Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India

2008-2012 Senior Research fellow; Dept of Organic Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India

2006-2008 Junior Research fellow; Dept of Organic Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India

2005-2006 Project Assistant; Phytochemistry, NBRI, Lucknow, India

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Education

2006-2012 Ph.D.; Bio-organic chemistry, Dept of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

2003-2005 M.Sc.; Organic Chemistry, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India

1999-2002 B.Sc.; Biological Sciences group (Chemistry, Botany), Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India

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Awards/Honors/Eligibility

2006 NET-JRF; GATE

2007 NET-JRF

2006-2008 JRF, IISc

2008-2012 SRF, IISc

2011 Indo-Spain exchange visitor award

2012 DST Travel Award

2013 Guha Research Medal, Best thesis award

2015 Best poster award, CNST Nanotechnology Workshop, UIUC, IL, USA

2016 People’s choice Best poster award,, Beckman Institute, UIUC, IL, USA

2016 Best poster award, in symposium BM06: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2017 Best poster award, in symposium BM07: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2019 Ramalingaswami Fellowship, DBT, India

2020 Young Researcher award, Biomedical Engineering, VISTA 2020

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Selected Publications

1. Misra SK, Ostadhossein F, Babu R, Kus J, Tankasala D, Sutrisno A, Walsh KA, Bromfield CR, Pan D. 3D-Printed Multidrug-Eluting Stent from Graphene-Nanoplatelet-Doped Biodegradable Polymer Composite. Adv Healthc Mater. 2017 Jun;6(11). doi: 10.1002/adhm.201700008. Epub 2017 Mar 21. PMID: 28322012

2. Misra SK, Srivastava I, Tripathi I, Daza E, Ostadhossein F, Pan D. Macromolecularly "Caged" Carbon Nanoparticles for Intracellular Trafficking via Switchable Photoluminescence. J Am Chem Soc. 2017 Feb 8;139(5):1746-1749. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b11595. Epub 2017 Jan 27. PMID: 28106386

3. Misra SK, Ghoshal G, Gartia MR, Wu Z, De AK, Ye M, Bromfield CR, Williams EM, Singh K, Tangella KV, Rund L, Schulten K, Schook LB, Ray PS, Burdette EC, Pan D., Trimodal Therapy: Combining Hyperthermia with Repurposed Bexarotene and Ultrasound for Treating Liver Cancer. ACS Nano. 2015 Nov 24;9(11):10695-10718. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05974. Epub 2015 Oct 12. PMID: 26435333

4. Misra, SK, Ostadhossein, F, Daza, E, Johnson, EV, Pan, D. Hyperspectral Imaging Offers Visual and Quantitative Evidence of Drug Release from Zwitterionic‐Phospholipid‐Nanocarbon When Concurrently Tracked in 3D Intracellular Space. Adv Func Mater. 2016 Sep 26; 26(44):8031-8041.doi:10.1002/adfm.201602966

5. Muñoz-Úbeda M,1 Misra SK,1 Barrán-Berdón AL, Aicart-Ramos C, Sierra MB, Biswas J, Kondaiah P, Junquera E, Bhattacharya S, Aicart E. Why is less cationic lipid required to prepare lipoplexes from plasmid DNA than linear DNA in gene therapy? J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Nov 16;133(45):18014-7. doi: 10.1021/ja204693f. Epub 2011 Oct 20. PMID: 21985329

6. Datta S, Misra SK, Saha ML, Lahiri N, Louie J, Pan D, Stang PJ. Orthogonal self-assembly of an organoplatinum(II) metallacycle and cucurbit[8]uril that delivers curcumin to cancer cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Aug 7;115(32):8087-8092. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1803800115. Epub 2018 Jul 23. PMID: 30038010

7. Khan MS,1 Misra SK,1* Dighe K, Wang Z, Schwartz-Duval AS, Sar D, Pan D. Biosens Bioelectron. Electrically-receptive and thermally-responsive paper-based sensor chip for rapid detection of bacterial cells. 2018 Jul 1;110:132-140. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2018.03.044. Epub 2018 Mar 23. PMID: 29605712

8. Misra SK, Kondaiah P, Bhattacharya S, Rao CNR. Graphene as a nanocarrier for tamoxifen induces apoptosis in transformed cancer cell lines of different origins. Small. 2012 Jan 9;8(1):131-43. doi: 10.1002/smll.201101640. Epub 2011 Nov 18. PMID: 22102595

9. Parinaz Fathi, Hailey J Knox, Dinabandhu Sar, Indu Tripathi, Fatemeh Ostadhossein, Santosh K Misra, Mandy B Esch, Jefferson Chan, Dipanjan Pan, Biodegradable Biliverdin Nanoparticles for Efficient Photoacoustic Imaging. ACS nano 2019, 13 (7), 7690-7704.

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Research Grants

1. PI, Ramalingaswamy fellowship, A Triple approach of Muscle-sense, Nano-muscle and Stem cell therapy for Early Intervention to Weakening Muscles after Chemotherapy (2019-2024)

2. PI, Start-up Fund, IITK: Biomedical Materials and Devices for Cancer Care Through Sensing and Therapy, (2019-2021)

3. PI, CSR Project from Portescap: "Melanocare” Gels for Skin Cancer Therapy in Rural Settings of India, IITK (2019-2020)

4. Host PI, ASM INDO-US Teaching Professorship, IITK-FDA USA, 2019

5. Co-Investigator (Academic) in SBIR Phase II project: “Novel, point-of-service device for use in diagnosing the severity of anterior eye injures with an objective measure of the ocular tear film” of $749,973 to InnSight Technology, Inc (a start up from lab product) from National Science Foundation (2017-2019).

6. Senior personnel on Seed grant–520 Carle Fdn Hospital 00323008 entitled “Personalized Absorbable Gastrointestinal Stents for Intestinal Fistulae and Perforations” of $50K (2016-2017).

7. Co-investigator on iSEE grant “A Nanotechnology Approach for Efficient Crude Oil Pollution Treatment via Entrapment, Dispersal and Removal using Nano-CarboScavenger” of $170K (2015-2017).

8. Key Personnel on SBIR Phase-I grant “A point-of-care tear film assay for detection of corneal lacerations in trauma of $150K (2016).

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Reviewer Activities

1. Scientific Reports

2. Analyst

3. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine

4. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

5. Indian Journal of Natural Products and Natural Resources

6. Heterocyclic chemistry

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Memberships

1. Life member of Society for Biological Chemists in India (SBCI), (2019-)

2. Member of Materials Research Society (2016-)

3. Member of Biomedical Engineering Society (2014-2017)

4. Member of American Chemical Society (2014-2015; 2018-)

5. Student member of Society for Biological Chemists in India (SBCI), 2008-2013

6. Member of Academic Honour Society (2003-2005), LCC, University of Lucknow

7. President of Sciforum, Dept. of Organic Chemistry, IISc, 2009-2010

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Mentoring Activities

1. Illinois scholars undergraduate research program mentor for Two Undergraduates: 2014-2015

2. Project Mentor: BioE298, UIUC (2014-2015)

3. Mentored 8 Graduate and 30 undergraduate students over 4 years of time in MatMed Lab, Bioengineering, UIUC from October, 2013-2017.

4. Mentored 4 Graduate students over 3 years of time in bioorganic chemistry lab from 2010-2013.

5. Mentored 3 Summer students, 2 B. Tech. project students 2019.

6. Mentoring 5 Ph.D., 2 M. tech, 1 M.S. and 2 B. Tech. students at BSBE, IITK

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Teaching Experience

1. BSE412A Lab Course, UG Course, BSBE, IITK, India

2. BSE613A Biomaterials, PG course, BSBE, IITK, India

3. BSE411A Biomaterials, UG course, BSBE, IITK, India

4. BSE421A Tissue Engineering, UG course, BSBE, IITK, India

5. BIOE498/598DP course on Gene Therapy: An Overview on Optimization of Nano-carrier Systems at Dept. of Bioengineering, UIUC, IL, USA. (Guest Lecturer)

6. Developmental Procedure of Systemically Administered siRNA-based Therapeutics for Cancer at Dept. of Bioengineering, UIUC, IL, USA. (Guest Lecturer)

Conference Talks/poster presentations

Talks/Conference presentations

27. Santosh K Misra,* Key Note speaker, Bio-sensing Facilitated Therapeutic Regimes for Balanced-Cure to Imbalances of Life. 6th Science and Technology Awards - VISTA 2020, 9th January 2021 at Green Park Chennai, India.26. Santosh K Misra,* Key Note speaker, Biosensing Mediated Therapeutic Regimes: A Balanced-Cure for Imbalances of Life, International conference on Biomaterial-based Therapeutic Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (BioTERM2019) at 28 Nov - 01 Dec, 2019, IIT Kanpur, India.25. Santosh K Misra,* Preparation of Surface Decorated 3D Carbon Materials for Nanosensing at Pre conference workshop on Advances in Functional Biomaterials, 27 Nov - 01 Dec, 2019, IIT Kanpur, India.24. Santosh K. Misra,* Imaging for bone regeneration: An overview, under GIAN Course, 2019 at Hepatic and Bone Tissue Development for Drug Metabolism and Tissue Engineering Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur - 208016, INDIA23. Vinayak Agrawal,¹ Hariharan VC,^2,3 Saravanan Matheshwaran,³* Santosh K. Misra²*, Biosensing Detection Kit for Bacterial Meningitis in Cerebro-Spinal Fluid Collected by Lumbar Puncture Method. Students' Research Convention, Bio-Engineering, 30th - 31th March, 2019 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. 22. Santosh K. Misra, Enrique A. Daza, John Scott, Christine Promisel, Brajendra K. Sharma, Indu Tripathi, Laurel K. Dodgen, Jacek Topczewski, Santanu Chaudhuri, Zheng Wei, Dipanjan Pan, Chemistry of Nano-CarboScavengers Allows Dual Method Rehabilitation of Petroleum Contaminated Water at 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018.21. Santosh K. Misra,* Muhammad S. Khan, Ketan Dighe, Zhen Wang, Aaron S. Schwartz-Duval, Dipanjan Pan,* Highly Sensitive Electrically-Receptive Thermally-Responsive (ER-TR) Analytical Biosensor Chip for Rapid Detection of Bacterial cells at 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018.20. Santosh K. Misra, Ketan Dighe, Aaron S. Schwartz-Duval, Zaixi Shang, Leanne Labriolab and Dipanjan Pan, Plasmonic "Ojogel" Kit for Detecting Corneal Integrity Post Glaucoma Surgery at 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018.19. Santosh K. Misra, Taylor L. Kampert and Dipanjan Pan, Pamitoyl-co-enzyme-A Colloidal Nanoparticles for Transcriptional Chemo-biologics Therapy at 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018.18. Santosh K. Misra, Muhammad S. Khan, Prabuddha Mukherjee and Dipanjan Pan, Electro-responsive Poly-graphene Medi-patch Arm-bands for Controlled Delivery of STAT-3 Inhibitors in Anti-stem Cell Melanoma Therapy at 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018.17. Santosh K. Misra, Indu Tripathi, Fatemeh Ostadhossein, Indrajit Srivastava, Dipanjan Pan, Carbo-Nanotweezers for twisting the tail of cancer, at MRS2017, Nov 26 to Dec 1, 2017 Boston, Massachusetts. 16. Santosh K. Misra and Dipanjan Pan, Bio-inspired Nano-CarboScavengers for rehabilitation of petroleum contaminated water at Emerging Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment Conference (ECAEC17), 31^st May-1^st June 2017, Urbana, IL, USA. 15. Santosh K. Misra, Zhe Wu, Mao Ye, Klaus Schulten and Dipanjan Pan Nanoparticle or not nanoparticle? Creating self-assembled prodrug nanoparticles improve inhibition of breast cancer, at MRL, Biological Conference, Nov 2-3, 2016, UIUC.14. Santosh K. Misra, Zhe Wu, Mao Ye, Klaus Schulten, Dipanjan Pan, A Nitro-furan Antibiotic Turns Oncolytic to Selectively Reduce Breast Cancer Stem Cell and Tumor Growth via STAT-3 Modulation at BMES 2016, October 5-8, 2016, Minneapolis, MO.13. Santosh K. Misra, Mao Ye, Arun De, Laurie Rund, Lawrence B. Schook and Dipanjan Pan, Bis(indolyl)methane Based Retinoid X Receptor Agonist for Efficient Nanotherapy in Onco-Pigs via In-Silico-to-In Vivo Approach at BMES 2016, October 5-8, 2016, Minneapolis, MO.12. Santosh K. Misra, Fatemeh Ostadhossein, Ramya Babu, Joseph Kus, Divya Tankasala,, Kathy Walsh, Corinne Bromfield, Dipanjan Pan Personalized 3D Printed Bio-Absorbable Drug-Eluting Stent for the Treatment of Vascular Disease. at MRL Fall conference student competition, 4-5 November 2015, MRL, UIUC, IL (Finalist).11. Santosh Misra, G. Ghoshal, M. Ye, Z. Wu, M. Gartia, C. R. Bromfield, E. M. Williams, K. V. Tangella, K. Schulten, P. S. Ray, E. C. Burdette, D. Pan, TheraBlob for Ultrasound Mediated Ablation Therapy at 5th Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium, February 6, 2015, Beckman Institute, UIUC, IL.10. Santosh K. Misra, Goutam Ghoshal, Mao Ye, Tor W. Jensen, Manas Gartia, Zhe Wu, Clif Burdette, Partha Ray and Dipanjan Pan, TheraBlob for Ultrasound-mediated Ablation Therapy at BMES 2014, October 22-25, 2014, San Antonio, Tx.9. Santosh K Misra, Divya Tankasala, Dipanjan Pan, PolyGraphene muco-adhesive patches for sustained delivery of STAT-3 inhibitors for anti-stem-like cell therapy, in Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry at 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, August 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.8. Santosh K Misra, Benjamin Kim, Dipanjan Pan, Dual strategy for sensing metals with a nano-pincer scavenger in vitro and systemically for patients with liver diseases in Division of Analytical Chemistry at 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, August 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.7. Santosh K Misra, Joseph Kus, Dipanjan Pan, Selective amplification and a highly efficient nanoparticle-mediated delivery of DNA-cleaving agents in Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry at 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, August 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.6. Santosh K Misra, Mao Ye, Dipanjan Pan. Regressing metastatic and drug resistant breast cancer with triggerable pronifuroxazide nanoparticle by inhibiting transcription factor STAT3 in Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry at 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, August 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.5. Santosh K Misra, Dipanjan Pan, Polycelles for improved inhibition of breast cancer stem cells via STAT-3 cascade pathway in Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering at 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, August 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.4. Sumin Kim,¹ Santosh K. Misra,¹Dipanjan Pan, Controlled and safer therapeutic delivery of venom toxins using well-defined polymeric nanoparticles for cancer inhibition in Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry at 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, August 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.3. Santosh K Misra and Dipanjan Pan, Polycelles for improved inhibition of breast cancer stem cells via STAT-3 cascade pathway in Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering at 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, August 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.2. Santosh K. Misra and Santanu Bhattacharya “Influence of Head group Chemistry of Novel Cationic Cholesterols and SWCNT Loading on the Gene Transfection Efficiency” at One-day Pfizer symposium on Organic Chemistry on 16^th January 2012.1. Materials Science and Engineering Soft Matter Seminar Series (MSE559): “Sustainable and Benign Crude Oil Spill and Pharmaceutical Residue Treatment via Entrapment and Dispersion Using Eco-friendly Neutro-CarboScavenger” 20^th October 2015, Material science and engineering, UIUC.

Conference poster presentations

37. Hariharan V. C., Saravanan Matheshwaran,* and Santosh K. Misra,*, Mechanistic Role of Cholesterol in Acquisition of Adoptive Antimicrobial Resistance by Altering Bacterial Membranes for Improving BioSafety of Biomedical Devices at BioTERM2019, IIT Kanpur, 28^th Nov to 1^st Dec, 2019.36. Vinayak Agrawal, Hariharan V. C., Sapatmi S. Shetty, Saravanan Matheshwaran,* and Santosh K. Misra,* Carbo-Nano-Particle-Platelet Composite Based Sensing Devices for Detection of Bacterial Meningitis Using Cerebro-Spinal Fluid at BioTERM2019, IIT Kanpur, 28^th Nov to 1^st Dec, 2019.35. Santosh K. Misra, Fatemeh Ostadhossein, Ramya Babu, Joseph Kus, Divya Tankasala,, Kathy Walsh, Corinne Bromfield, Dipanjan Pan, Graphene-Nanoplatelet-Doped Biodegradable Polymer Composite for 3D-Printing Multidrug-Eluting Coronary Stent, in symposium BM07: Emerging Materials and Devices for Engineering Biological Function and Dynamics at MRS2017, Nov 26 to Dec 1, 2017 Boston, Massachusetts. (Best symposium poster award)34. Pritesh Patel, Santosh Misra, Natalie S. Rodriguez, Gururaja Vulugundam, Annie L. Oh, Vitalyi Senyuk, Nadim Mahmud, Damiano Rondelli, and Dipanjan Pan, Combined Nanoparticle Delivery of PARP and DNA-PK Inhibition for Multiple Myeloma at 59^th Annual Meeting & Exposition, Atlanta, GA.33. Santosh K. Misra and Dipanjan Pan, Biomaterials for Therapy and Medical Devices, Indo-US Research Symposium, 12^th September 2017 at Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL, USA.32. Santosh K. Misra, Ketan Dighe, Zaixi Shang, Leanne Labriola and Dipanjan Pan*, Plasmonic "Ojogel" Kit for Detecting Corneal Integrity Post Glaucoma Surgery at 3rd Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium, September 11, 2017, I-Hotel, Champaign, IL, USA. 31. Santosh K. Misra, Dipanjan Pan, Translatable ‘Soft’ nanoparticles derived from self-assembled anticancer prodrugs and their preclinical evaluation in transgenic swine model at ONC-PM Symposium, Feb 7^th, 2017, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, UIUC. 30. Santosh Kumar Misra, Enrique Daza, John Scott, Christine, Promisel, Brajendra Sharma, Indu Tripathi, Jacek Topczewski, Santanu Chaudhuri, Dipanjan Pan, Bio-inspired Nano-CarboScavengers for rehabilitation of petroleum contaminated water at MRS2016, Nov 27 to Dec 2, 2016 Boston, Massachusetts. (Best symposium poster award)29. Santosh Kumar Misra, Muhammad Khan, Prabuddha Mukherjee, Dipanjan Pan PolyGraphene Muco-adhesive Medi-Patches Integrated with Electronic Biosensor for Tracking Delivery of STAT-3 Inhibitors for Anti-Stem Cell Therapy at MRS2016, Nov 27 to Dec 2, 2016 Boston, Massachusetts.28. Santosh Kumar Misra, Zhe Wu, Mao Ye, Klaus Schulten, Dipanjan Pan, A Phospholipase A2 Responsive Pro-nitro-furan Antibiotic Nanoassembly Turns Oncolytic to Selectively Reduce Breast Cancer Stem Cells at MRS2016, Nov 27 to Dec 2, 2016 Boston, Massachusetts.27. NanoCarboScavengers for Remediation of Petroleum and Pharmaceutical Contaminants, Indu Tripathi, Santosh K. Misra, Enrique A. Daza, Youkabed Ostadhossein, John Scott, Brajendra K. Sharma, Santanu Chaudhuri, Jacek Topczewski and Dipanjan Pan at BME Midwest conference at UIUC, November 4^th, 2016.26. Nano-Tweezers for Twisting Tail of Cancer, Indu Tripathi, Santosh K. Misra, Youkabed Ostadhossein and Dipanjan Pan at BME Midwest conference at UIUC, November 4^th, 2016.25. Therapeutic Nanobubbles for Targeted Ultrasound Interventions against Breast Cancer, Santosh K Misra, Rushi S. Patel and Dipanjan Pan at BME Midwest conference at UIUC, November 4^th, 2016.24. Optimized Combinatorial Therapy for Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Taylor L. Kampert, Santosh Misra, and Dipanjan Pan at BME Midwest conference at UIUC, November 4^th, 2016.23. PolyGraphene Medi-Patches Integrated with Electronic Biosensor for Tracking Delivery of STAT-3 Inhibitors in Anti-Stem Cell Therapy. Santosh K. Misra, Muhammad S. Khan, Prabuddha Mukherjee and Dipanjan Pan at BME Midwest conference at UIUC, November 4^th, 2016.22. siNozyme Nanoparticle for Combinatorial Melanoma Therapy: A Translatable Solution to the Gene-delivery Hurdle? Santosh K Misra and Dipanjan Pan at BME Midwest conference at UIUC, November 4^th, 2016.21. PolyGraphene Medi-Patches Integrated with Electronic Biosensor for Tracking Delivery of STAT-3 Inhibitors in Anti-Stem Cell Therapy. Santosh K. Misra, Muhammad S. Khan, Prabuddha Mukherjee and Dipanjan Pan at MUACC 2016 at UIUC October 13^th to 15^th, 2016.20. Personalized 3D Printed Bio-Absorbable Drug-Eluting Stent for the Treatment of Vascular Disease. Santosh K. Misra, Joseph Kus, Ramya Babu, Divya Tankasala, Kathy Walsh, Andrew Graham, Corinne Bromfield, Zachary Saldivar, Dipanjan Pan at 3rd Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium, September 9, 2016.19. Personalized 3D Printed Bio-Absorbable Drug-Eluting Stent for the Treatment of Vascular Disease. Santosh K. Misra, Joseph Kus, Ramya Babu, Divya Tankasala, Kathy Walsh, Andrew Graham, Corinne Bromfield, Zachary Saldivar, Dipanjan Pan at CNST Nanotechnology Workshop 2016, May 5-7, 2016.18. A Venomous Boon for Epileptic Seizures: Nanoapproach to a Megaproblem. Santosh K. Misra, Minqi Wang, Parijat Sengupta, and Dipanjan Pan at BioE Day, 2^nd March 2016, Dept. of Bioengineering, UIUC, IL. 17. Pro-Nifuroxazide-NPs for Cancer Specific Triggerable Anti-cancer Therapy via STAT-3 Pathway. Santosh K. Misra, Mao Ye, Zhe Wu, Xujuan Yang, James A Hartman, Tor W. Jensen, William G. Helferich, Klaus Schulten and Dipanjan Pan at 5th Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium, February 5, 2016, Beckman Institute, UIUC, IL. (People’s choice best poster award) 16. Personalized 3D Printed Bio-Absorbable Drug-Eluting Stent for the Treatment of Vascular Disease. Santosh K. Misra, Joseph Kus, Ramya Babu, Divya Tankasala, Kathy Walsh, Andrew Graham, Corinne Bromfield, Zachary Saldivar, Dipanjan Pan at BMES Annual meeting, 6-10^th October 2015, Tampa, Florida, USA. 15. Sustainable and Benign Crude Oil Spill Treatment Via Entrapment and Dispersion Using Eco-friendly Nano-CarboScavengers. Santosh K. Misra,¹Enrique Daza,¹ iSEE Congress, 14-16 September 2015 at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.14. A² Biosensor: Point-of-Care Ascorbic Acid Sensing for Penetrating Ocular Globe Injuries. Santosh K. Misra,¹ Manas R. Gartia,¹ Mao ye, Lisa Plucinski, Leanne Labriola and Dipanjan Pan at BMES/FDA, Frontiers in Medical Devices Conference: Innovations in Modelling and Simulations, 2015 University Blvd, East Hyattsville, Maryland, USA.13. A² Biosensor: Point-of-Care Ascorbic Acid Sensing for Penetrating Ocular Globe Injuries. Santosh K. Misra,¹ Manas R. Gartia,¹ Mao ye, Lisa Plucinski, Leanne Labriola and Dipanjan Pan at CNST Nanotechnology Workshop 2015, May 7-8, 2015.12. Pro-Nifuroxazide-NPs for Cancer Specific Triggerable Anti-cancer Therapy via STAT-3 Pathway. Santosh K. Misra, Mao Ye, Zhe Wu, Xujuan Yang, James A Hartman, Tor W. Jensen, William G. Helferich, Klaus Schulten and Dipanjan Pan at CNST Nanotechnology Workshop 2015, May 7-8, 2015. (Best poster award, Second Prize) 11. PolyGraphene Muco-adhesive Medi-Patches for Anti-Stem like Cell Therapy via STAT-3 Inhibition. Santosh K. Misra, Prabuddha Mukherjee, Divya Tankasala, Rohit Bhargava and Dipanjan Pan at BMES 2014, October 22-35, 2014, San Antonio, Tx.10. TheraBlob for ultrasound-enabled ablation therapy. Santosh K Misra, Mao Ye, Huei-Huei Chang, Dipanjan Pan. Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry at 248th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, August 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.9. Regressing Metastatic and Drug Resistant Breast Cancer with Trigger-able Pro-nifuroxazide Nanoparticle by Inhibiting Transcription Factor STAT3” at Cancer Center Research Forum, 2014, University of Illinois at Chicago authored by Santosh Kumar Misra, Mao Ye and Dipanjan Pan. 8. siNozyme Nanoparticle for Combinatorial Melanoma Therapy: A Much Awaited Translatable Solution to the Gene-delivery Hurdle?” at Cancer Center Research Forum, 2014, University of Illinois at Chicago co-authored by Santosh K. Misra and Dipanjan Pan. 7. Nanocelles for Improved Inhibition of Breast Cancer Stem Cells via STAT-3 Cascade Pathway” co-authored by Santosh K. Misra and Dipanjan Pan at PostDoctoral Symposium, 31^st January 2014 at Beckmann Research Institute, Urbana.6. Controlled and Safer Therapeutic Delivery of Venom Peptides using Well-defined Polymeric Nanoparticles for Cancer Inhibition” Sumin Kim,^† Santosh Kumar Misra^† and Dipanjan Pan at PostDoctoral Symposium, 31^st January 2014 at Beckmann Research Institute, Urbana.(People’s choice finalist award)5. Graphene as a Nanocarrier for Tamoxifen Induces Apoptosis in Transformed Cancer Cell Lines of Different Origins” at Colloids and Nanomedicine-2012 at Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 15^th-17^th July, 2012.4. Hydroxyethyl Group on the Headgroup of Cholesterol based Gemini Lipids having Short Oxyethylene Spacer Elicits Remarkable Transfection Activity in High Serum Condition” in 79^th annual meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists (India), Dec 13-15, 2010.3. Participated in 28^th Annual Convention of “Indian Association for Cancer Research & International Symposium on Emerging Challenges and Approaches in Cancer Biology”, IISc Centenary Year Conference from February 21^st to 24^th, 2009. 2. Participated in “International Conference on Germ Cell Development-Function & 19^th Annual Meeting of ISSRF” from January 22-24, 2009. 1. Participated in IISc Centenary Conference, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India from Dec 13-16, 2008.