Grants/Awards 

Academic Grants and Funding agencies

1. Earu Banoth, Prasoon Kumar (Co-PI), Development of Indigenous Point-of-Care Single cell High Throughput Absorption Flow-Cytometer for Screening of Malaria and Dengue, BIG-BIRAC (INR 49.71 Lakhs) 

2. Neha Arya, Prasoon Kumar (Co-PI), Development of a bioprinted patient-derived breast tumor organoid platform for high throughput drug screening, BIRAC Grant (INR 94.40 Lakhs/ 5 lakhs) 

3. M. K. Baig, P. Kumar(Co-PI), Dr. A. Thirugnanam,  Development of non-invasive glucose monitoring sensor ring for management or prevention of diabetes,  DBT Grant (INR 17.325 lakhs), 2023

4. M. K. Baig, P. Kumar(Co-PI), Development and translation of a non-invasive, saliva & gingival crevicular fluid based sensor for management of diabetes, ICMR Grant ( INR 25.08 Lakhs), 2023

5. Balachakravarthy Neelapu,  Prasoon Kumar (Co-PI), Earu Banoth, Development and validation of an Artificial Intelligence based portable screening device for potentially malignant and malignant oral disorders by integrating narrow band imaging with auto-fluorescence and white light, ICMR Grant (INR – Rs. 58.04 Lakhs), 2023

6. Prasoon Kumar (PI), Innovating paper microfluidic device to achieve rapid and uniform spreading of whole blood and demonstrate its applicability as a point-of-care diagnostic device, SRG/2021/000859/ES, SERB, DST, Govt of India of 26.224 Lakhs 2022

7. Mirza Khalid Baig (PI), Kumar P (Co-PI), Earu Bhanoth, A Ravikant, Balachakravarthy Nelapu, Implementable Closed-loop Diabetes Management Device, BDTD DST, Govt. of India grant of  INR 32. 24 Lakhs, 2021

8. Prasoon Kumar (PI), Design and development of microfluidics based capillary micropump for controlled delivery of insulin through a microdevice for diabetic patients, R & D grant of INR 2 Lakhs by NIT Rourkela (SEED Grant), 2020 

*cumulative Grant as PI and Co-PI - INR (215.62  Lakhs)

Entrepreneurship Grants and Funding agencies

1. Pradeep Verma, Prasoon Kumar (Mentor/PI), Development of Wearable Device to predict Dry Eye Disease (DED) in mine workers,  MeitY Startup Hub TIDE 2.0 EIR Grant (INR 4.00 Lakhs)

2. Shilpa Prasoon kumar,  Prasoon Kumar (Mentor), Developing bioprinted dual-layered Skin Patches through engineered bioink for cosmetics and drug screening, start-up NIDHI-EIR fund by FTBI, NIT Rourkela, 2023 ( INR 3.6 Lakhs)

3. C S Amit has been awarded INR 35,000  as start-up fund by FTBI, NIT Rourkela under mentorship of Prason Kumar (Mentor) of BM department

4. Vaibhav Shitole, Prasoon Kumar (Mentor), A user friendly, affordable device for self blood microsampling for diagnostics and pharmaceutical applications, got the BT BIRAC SITARE-GYTI-award 2020 and R & D grant of INR 15 Lakhs ( Start-up Grant), 2020

*cumulative Grant as Mentor - INR (22.95  Lakhs)

Awards

1. Prasoon Kumar selected for Young Investigators' Meeting (YIM) 2023 scheduled from 13-17 February 2023 in Gandhinagar, organised by IndiaBiosciences.

2. Prasoon Kumar nominated a BRICS Young Scientist 2022 under new materials by DST, Govt. of India to represent India in the BRICS Conclave, Xiamen, China, 2022

3. Vaibhav Shitole and Prasoon Kumar, A user friendly, affordable device for self blood microsampling for diagnostics and pharmaceutical applications, got the BT BIRAC SITARE-GYTI-award, 2020

4. Prasoon Kumar, selected for Newton-Bhabha Researcher Links workshop on Addressing the global rise in antimicrobial resistant infections through lab-on-a-chip technology at IIT Bombay, 2019