Achievements

Patents :

1. “MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL CELL CULTURE AND MULTI-DRUG TESTING AND METHODS OF FABRICATION THEREOF " (432209)

2. "A VERSATILE MICROFLUIDIC APPARATUS AND AN ATTACHMENT THEREOF " (PCT/IN2024/050630)

Journal publications (Majority first author articles):

1. Mahadik, K., Visala, A., Chatterjee, N., Pahuja, M., Mehta, V., et al (2025). Human relevant frontiers in drug safety and efficacy. ALTEX 42(1), 146-151 https://doi.org/10.14573/altex.2411131 (impact factor: 5.8)

2. Mehta, V.*, Vilikkathala Sudhakaran, S*., Nellore, V., & Rath, S. N. (2024) Differential osteo-specific invasion of patient-derived cancer cells in a microfluidic co-culture model. Chemical Engineering Journal  DOI (*equal contribution) (impact factor: 13.3)

3. Mehta, V., Vilikkathala Sudhakaran, S., Nellore, V., & Rath, S. N. (2024) 3D stem-like spheroids-on-a-chip for personalized combinatorial drug testing in oral cancer. Journal of Nanobiotechnology DOI (impact factor: 10.6)

4. Mehta, V., Karnam, G., & Madgula, V. (2024) Liver-on-chips for drug discovery and development.  Materials Today Bio

 DOI  (Corresponding author & first author) (impact factor: 8.7)

5. Vilikkathala Sudhakaran, S.*, Mehta, V. *, Giri, P., Nellore V., Rath, S.N. (2023) Osteoniche-on-a-3D printed chip for determining metastatic invasion of patient-derived cancer cells. Tissue Engineering Part A, 29(13-14) https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tea.2023.29043.abstracts  (impact factor: 2.9)

6. Mehta, V., Rath, S.N. (2021). 3D printed microfluidic devices: a review focused on four fundamental manufacturing approaches and implications on the field of healthcare. Bio-design & Manufacturing, 4(2), 311–343 DOI (Full paper can be viewed here through sharedit link provided by springer nature:  https://rdcu.be/cc06j ) (impact factor: 8.1)

7.   Sankar, S*., Mehta, V.*, Ravi, S., Sharma C.S., Rath S.N. (2021). A novel design of microfluidic platform for metronomic combinatorial chemotherapy drug screening based on 3D tumor spheroid model. Biomedical Microdevices, 23, 50  DOI                           (* contributed equally) (impact factor: 3.0)

8.  Mehta, V., Vilikkathala Sudhakaran, S., & Rath, S. N. (2021). Facile Route for 3D Printing of Transparent PETg-Based Hybrid Biomicrofluidic Devices Promoting Cell Adhesion. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 7(8), 3947-3963.  DOI (Full paper link in Researchgate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Viraj-Mehta-2/research) (impact factor: 5.4)

Conference presentations:

1. Viraj Mehta, "3D hepatic and tumor MPS models for toxicity and efficacy assessment", Microphysiological Systems Bootcamp, March 3- 7, 2025, NIPER-Ahmedabad (Keynote presentation)

2. Viraj Mehta, "Integrating CIVMs in Drug Discovery: Applications and Industry Adoption Strategies", SSX India 2025, 23rd January, 2025, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad (Oral Presentation)

3. Viraj Mehta, Guruswamy Karnam, Vamsi Madgula, “Applications of complex in vitro models in cancer and liver research”, 4th international 3R conference on human-derived tumoroids and humanized mice, May 4, 2024, Mahindra University, Hyderabad (Keynote presentation)

4. Viraj Mehta, Sukanya V.S., Pragati Sharma, Vijaykumar Nellore, Subha Narayan Rath, “3D printed microphysiological systems for 3D tumor culture, personalized anti-tumor drug screening, and tumor metastasis”, MPS World Summit 2023, June 26 - June 30, 2023, JW Marriott Hotel Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (Poster presentation) (Received travel award)

5. Viraj Mehta, Sukanya V.S., Subha Narayan Rath, "Towards Functional Precision Medicine: Microfluidic Platform for Combinatorial Drug Screening using Stereolithography (SLA)", SelectBio: 3D-Models for Drug Testing: Organoids & Tissue Chips 2022, September 13-14, 2022, Hilton Garden Inn Seattle Downtown, Washington, USA.  (Keynote presentation)

6. Viraj Mehta, Sukanya V.S., Subha Narayan Rath, "Rapid prototyping of tumor-on-chips for drug testing and cancer metastasis", EMBO Lecture Course Microphysiological systems: Advances and applications in human-relevant research, October 31 - November 4, 2022, IICT-Hyderabad, India (Received best poster presentation award)

7. Viraj Mehta, Vimal Patel, "Performance Evaluation of Jigsaw Machine using Kinematic and Stress Analysis", International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM), December 28-30, 2017, IIT Kharagpur, India  (Podium presentation)

8. Viraj Mehta, Sooraj VS, "Design of Low-Cost Open Source Functionally Graded Fused Deposition based Rapid Prototyping (FG-FD-RP) System", International Conference on Precision Engineering (COPEN), December 7-9, 2017, IIT Madras, India, P. 82-86.  (Podium presentation)

• Prime Minister's Research Fellow, Ministry of Education, 2018

• Chief Minster's Scholar, Education department of Gujarat, 2014

• Travel award for MPS world summit 2023.