Associate Professor
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
2023- Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur, India
2019-2024 Ramalingaswami fellow, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur, India
2018-2022 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
2023 Prof. T.R. Viswanathan Young Faculty Fellowship in Teaching Excellence
2025 Bronze-Medal-2025, Society for Materials Chemistry (SMC), India
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1. Teresa Aditya,1 Pranay Saha,1 Santosh K. Misra,1 Maha Alafeef, Priyanka Ray, Enrique A. Daza, Aaron S. Schwartz-Duval, Indu Tripathi, and Dipanjan Pan. Spatio-temporal nano-biomineralization and pro-antibiotic release for synergistically combatting multidrug-resistant bacteria. Materials Today. 2025. (IF: 22.0)
2. Akanksha Dohare1, Niranjan Chatterjee1 and Santosh K. Misra*, In situ carbonization metamorphoses porous silica particles into biodegradable therapeutic carriers of lesser consequence on TGF-β1 mediated fibrosis. Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 8843-8850, 10.1039/D4NR00123K
3. Niranjan Chatterjee, Santosh Kumar Misra*, Nanocarbon-Enforced Anisotropic MusCAMLR for Rapid Rescue of Mechanically Damaged Skeletal Muscles, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15 (23), 27533–27547.
4. Xiangyu Zhang,1 Santosh Kumar Misra,1 Parikshit Moitra, Xiuli Zhang, Se-Jin Jeong, Jeremiah Stitham, Astrid Rodriguez-Velez, Arick Park, Yu-Sheng Yeh, William E Gillanders, Daping Fan, Abhinav Diwan, Jaehyung Cho, Slava Epelman, Irfan J Lodhi, Dipanjan Pan, Babak Razani, Use of acidic nanoparticles to rescue macrophage lysosomal dysfunction in atherosclerosis. Autophagy, 2022, 1-18.
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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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1. PI, ANRF, 3D-printed personalized, biodegradable, drug Eluting Implant for the Sustainable Treatment of Atherosclerosis (2024-2027)
2. Co-PI, TSG, WELLCOME TRUST DBT, Next Generation AAV Vectors For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Gene Therapy (2023-2028)
3. PI, ICMR, Intracellular Plasmonic Nanogold Generation for Sensing and Chemo-photothermal Combinatorial Cancer Therapy (2022-2025)
4. PI, NMMT, “ElecTex” with Electro-responsive Properties for Improved Wound Healing (2023-2025)
5. 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)
6. PI, Start-up Fund, IITK: Biomedical Materials and Devices for Cancer Care Through Sensing and Therapy, (2019-2021)
7. PI, SERB-SRG, 3D Printed Biomedical Personalized Caps with Drug Releasing Ability for Rescue of Alopecia Condition after Chemotherapy (2020-2022)
8. PI, CSR Project from Portescap: "Melanocare” Gels for Skin Cancer Therapy in Rural Settings of India, IITK (2019-2020)
9. Host PI, ASM INDO-US Teaching Professorship, IITK-FDA USA, 2019
10. 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).
11. Senior personnel on Seed grant–520 Carle Fdn Hospital 00323008 entitled “Personalized Absorbable Gastrointestinal Stents for Intestinal Fistulae and Perforations” of $50K (2016-2017).
12. 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).
13. 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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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
7. Communications Biology
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1. Life member, Society for Materials Chemistry (MSC), (2025-)
2. Life member, Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs (India), (2024- )
3. Life member of Society for Biological Chemists in India (SBCI), (2019-)
4. Member of Materials Research Society (2016-2018)
5. Member of Biomedical Engineering Society (2014-2017)
6. Member of American Chemical Society (2014-2015; 2018-)
7. Student member of Society for Biological Chemists in India (SBCI), 2008-2013
8. Member of Academic Honour Society (2003-2005), LCC, University of Lucknow
9. President of Sciforum, Dept. of Organic Chemistry, IISc, 2009-2010
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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. Mentored 2 Ph.D., 5 M. Tech., 1 M.S. , 4 B. Tech. and 10 summer/SURGE students at BSBE, IITK
7. Mentoring 7 Ph.D., 1 M. tech, and 1 B. Tech. student at BSBE, IITK
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1. BSE412A Lab Course, UG Course, BSBE, IITK, India (2019- )
2. BSE613A Biomaterials, PG course, BSBE, IITK, India (2019- )
3. BSE411A Biomaterials, UG course, BSBE, IITK, India (2020- )
4. BSE421A Tissue Engineering, UG course, BSBE, IITK, India (2020- )
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)
Invited Keynote talk “Nanocarbon-Enforced Polymeric Hydrogel Meshwork for Effective Repair of Damaged Skeletal Muscles” at National Science Symposium IISER Berhampur on 13th Sep 2025.
Invited talk “Nanocarbon Enforced, Controllable, Transdermal Pharmaceutics (NecTra-Pharmaceutics) for Localised and Selective Delivery of Repurposed Drugs for Cancer Therapy” at RAMA University, 21st July 2025.
Invited Talk “Nanocarbon enforced, Electro-stimulatory, Controllable, Transdermal Therapeutics (NECTra-Therapeutics) for Localized and Selective Melanoma Therapy” at CSIR-CDRI, on 10th July 2025.
Invited Talk “A Cross-talk in Nanocarbon Enforced Thermo-Responsive Hydrogel Causes Micro-Environment Responsive Skeletal Muscle Regeneration” 4th International Conference on Nanomaterials in Biology, 03-06 February 2025, University of Rajasthan Jaipur.
Online Lecture in Faculty Development Program on “NANOMATERIALS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY”, 20th- 24th January 2025, Organized by NIT Jalandhar, India
Invited Talk “Nanocarbon Enforced, Externally Controllable, Transdermal Therapeutics (NEET-Therapeutics) for Localised and Selective Melanoma Therapy” at
International Conference on Smart Materials for Sustainable Technology (SMST-2024)
24-27th Oct, 2024.
Invited Talk "Biodegradable Nanocarbon: Template for Translatable Bioactives " at International Conference on Translational Materials for Sustainable Technology (TransMate 2k24) at IIT BHU, Feb 01-04, 2024.
Invited Talk "Nanocarbon: Template for New Generation Diagnalytics" at 10th Annual Research Symposium, Department of Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 12-13th Jan, 2024.
Keynote Lecture at SGPGI: Carbon Materials as New Hope for Bio-nano-medicine, 4th Annual Research Day Symposium, SGPGI, Lucknow 13th Dec, 2023.
Invited Talk at IIT Delhi: Polymer-carbon composites for 3D-printed, Personalized, Biodegradable, Drug-delivery Grafts and Devices; International Conference on Biomedical Materials & Technology – 2023 (BioTEX 2023), 29th Nov-2nd Dec, 2023, IIT Delhi
Invited Talk at IIT Gandhinagar: Musculo-responsive Polymer Carbon Nanocomposite follows the Extracellular Cationic Cues to Gain the Therapeutic Capabilities, 3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials in Biology, 19-22 November 2023.
Mentor Talk: Nurturing Bioentrepreneurs: Ideation to Commercialization workshop hosted by SIIC, IITK and BIRAC at IITK on 8th Nov 2023.
Panel host for “Future of Health” at Y20 Consultation summit, 5-6th April, 2023, IIT Kanpur.
Talk and interaction on “Methods of improving specificity & sensitivity of biosensors to create economical and easily usable point-of-care diagnostic platforms” in “Mentor Connect Weekend' program arranged by KIIT-Technology Business Incubator on 30th Jan 2023.
Invited talk on “Role of Carbon Nanomaterials in improving Properties of 3D printed, Drug Eluting, Personalized grafts” under refresher course entitled “Contemporary Issues of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” on 13th Jan, 2023, School of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata (India)
Invited talk on Nano-carbonaceous Systems for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Intervention in international conference “Biomaterials, regenerative Medicine and Devices” from 14th-18th Dec, 2022, IIT Guwahati
Talk on “Personalized, Drug Eluting, Biodegradable Grafts for Cardiovascular Therapy” under Pant Workshop Series on Medical Technology and Future Medicine at IIT Kanpur – Swansea University Workshop on Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Flows, Dec 12, 2022.
Lecture on “Development of Biosensors for Disease Diagnosis” in Biotechnology Industrial Training Program, May 26, 2022 at 4pm organised by SIIC, IIT Kanpur.
Keynote talk on “Point of Care Diagnostics for Early Detection of Disease and Recalibration of Therapeutic Regimens” at Srinagar University during RABSRM conference on 06-07, May, 2022.
Panelist on India Medical Device 2022, from 25th-27th April, 2022 at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi in Session 4: R&D and Innovation in MedTech on Wednesday, 27 April 2022.
Workshop talk on “Point of Care Diagnostics for Designing Personalized Nanomedicine Platforms” for ‘Current Trends in Biotechnology’ on March 14th, 2022 at School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai.
Invited talk on “Personalized Approaches for Improving Outcomes of Advance Therapeutic Methods” at department of chemical engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, 2nd March, 2022.
Expert talk in workshop titled "Recent trends of Biotechnology in Engineering" supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India on topic “Biosensors: Tools to Read Imbalances of life Processes” on 15th December 2021.
Invited Lecture titled "Point of Care Diagnostics for Disease Detection and Correction in Therapeutic Regimen" at a DST-SERB sponsored workshop "KARYASHALA" with the theme of "Advancements in In vitro Diagnostic Methods in Healthcare" organised by MNNIT, Allahabad.
Keynote Speech: Bio-sensing Facilitated Therapeutic Regimens for Balanced Cure to Imbalances of Life at 6th Science and Technology Meet-ASTM 2020 on 9th Jan, 2021 at Green Park Chennai, India.
Keynote Lecture: Biosensing Mediated Therapeutic Regimes: A Balanced-Cure for Imbalances of Life, 27 Nov - 01 Dec, 2019, BioTERM2019, IIT Kanpur, India.
Workshop Lecture: Preparation of Surface Decorated 3D Carbon Materials for Nanosensing, Pre-conference workshop on Advances in Functional Biomaterials, 27 Nov - 01 Dec, 2019, BioTERM2019, IIT Kanpur, India.