2025

1. 1. Awarded $50,000 through Catalyst Research Award from UWM Research Foundation.

   2. New Award: Mona Haider Said, Awarded UWM-SURF funding as a part her undergraduate biomedical engineering program. 

2024

1. 1. Joined as Visiting Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University

   2. Alliance research grant collaboration with Prof. Bo Tan and Prof. Venkatakrishnan at Nano-Bio Centre and Laser Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University

   3. Research Collaboration with Prof. Miachel Kolios, TMU

   4. Interaction with Prof. Scott Tsai at TMU. 

   5. Joined Visiting Assistant Professor at UWM, USA. 

2023

1. 1. Selected to attend 8 days startup Boot Camp at iTNT Hub, Anna University, Starup TN (December 2023-Jan 24). Special Thanks to Mr. Nikhil and Team at iTNT Hub, Chennai. 

   2. Guest lecture at Faculty Development Program on "Advanced Characterization Techniques for Materials and Biology" at VIT, Vellore on the Titled "Micro/Nanostructures for Cancer Theranostics". Special Thanks to Dr. Arun Kumar Palaniappan, CBCMT, VIT Vellore. 

   3. As a event coordinator, organized to showcase department products in a stall via "TekMedica Club" by UG students

   4. Received Alliance Grant in collaboration with Dr. Bo Tan and Dr Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Toronto, Canada (July 2023).  

   5. ANTs group has started their aspirations from research to product stage. With help of AMTZ, our microfluidics based cancer detection device will enter next phase of research side.  

   6. Consultancy Grant from vTitan Corporation Limited work titled "Microvolume determination from infusion pump using droplet microfluidics" with a consultancy fee of amount Rs. 25,000/-.

   7. Guest Speaker: Webinar on "Design Thinking for Startup - A Novel Approach to Convert Idea to Startup" @ Rajalakshmi Engineering College, (LinkedIn Link) 

   8. Serving as Doctoral Committee Member for the Ph.D Research Scholar at Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur. PI : Dr Karthikeyan.

   9. Oral Presentation: Ms. Janani M, presented her masters project titled "Iron Quantum Clusters for Hyperthermia Applications"

   10. Poster Presentation: Ms Hema Brindha, presented her research work on "Theranostics for Cartilage Imaging" in Advance Bioimaging Conference held at IIT Madras Research Park (January 2023).  

   11. Grant : Received 2.25 lakhs grant from SRM Innovation and Incubation Centre (SIIC), Kattankulathur for the support project title "Table top Cell-culture system". 

   12. Invited as Guest speaker for International Conference on Innovations in Medical Device Technology held at two day conference at Dhanalaksmi Srinivasan University, Tiruchirapalli (January 2023).  

   13. Selected as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Coordiantor for Lehigh University, USA for student exchage program for Bioengineering Department, P C Rossin College of Engineering & Technology, USA. (January 2023)  

2022

1. 1. Research Interaction & Visit : Dr Murali Kumarasamy, NIPER Hajipur visited ANTs group, Biomaterials Lab exchange of research ideas for possible collaboration. December 2022. 

   2. Review Article Accepted: Advances and opportunities of nano imaging agents for the diagnosis of inflammatory lung diseases, Hema Brindha M, Govindaraj Perumal, Saravanan Krishnan, Sachin Kumar Singh, Niraj Kumar Jha, Dinesh Kumar Chellappan, Kamal Dua, Piyush Kumar Gupta*, Ashwin Kumar N* Nanomedicine, Future Science, Special Issue: Inflammatory Lung Diseases (Just Accepted, December 2022) [IF:6.07] - Published online January 2023

   3. Review Article Accepted: Prospects and Opportunities for the Targeted Immuno-Nanomaterials in Cancer Theranostics Applications, Clyde John, Kaahini Jain, Hema Brindha M, Ashwin Kumar Narasimhan, Arutselvan Natarajan, Micromachines, MDPI. (Just Accepted, December 2022) [IF:3.52]

   4. Acting as mentor for TekMedica Club at Biomedical Engineering, SRM IST. A club facilitates students to develop industry ready projects. (01-August 2022)

   5. Appointed as Guest Editor for Special Issue in Materials Today Chemistry, Elsevier (IF: 8.3) - Submission deadline : 30 June 2022 (Please check the journal for further updates)

   6. Industry academia collaboration with vTitan Corporation Limited ( Sister Concern of Zoho Corporation). 

2021 

2020

1. 1. Book chapter published on Microfluidic based metallic nanoparticle synthesis and applications published in Taylor and Francis (November).

   2. Conference paper published in IEEE Conference on NEMS, Intracellular delivery of Anisotropic Gold nanocrystals synthesized via microfluidic devices (September). 

   3. Certificate on completion of Biophotonics and Imaging Graduate Summer School, National University of Ireland, Galway and earned 5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) (September).

   4. Research article published on "Study of nanoparticles and nanoclusters for cancer hyperthermia", Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine (May).