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
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1. Teresa Aditya, Pranay Saha, Santosh K. Misra, 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 1 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)