My Research Journey

Education 

2009 – 2015:  Ph.D., Chemical Sciences, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

2007 – 2009: MSc, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pune, India

2004 – 2007: BSc, Chemistry, Nowrosjee Wadia College, University of Pune, India

Invited Talks & Oral Presentations

• Sushma Kumari, "From Light to Layer: Photocurable Polymers in High-Resolution Printing" at Faculty Development Program co-organized by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), CELLINK, and the Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM), IISc Bangalore, November 18-22, 2024. 

• Sushma Kumari, Pritiranjan Mondal, Kaushik Chatterjee "3D Bioprinting of Photo-crosslinkable Kappa-Carrageenan to Fabricate Cell-loaded Tissue Scaffolds" at International Conference on Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine and Devices (BIO-Remedi 2022), IIT-Guwahati, Guwahati, India, December 14-18, 2022.

• Sushma Kumari, Pritiranjan Mondal, Kaushik Chatterjee “3D Bioprinting of Photo-cross linkable Kappa-Carrageenan Hydrogels to Fabricate Cell-loaded Tissue Scaffolds” Annual Student Symposium of the Department of Materials Engineering, IISc, India, April 2022.

• Sushma Kumari, Pritiranjan Mondal, Kaushik Chatterjee “Development of Photocrosslinkable Kappa-Carrageenan Bioink to Fabricate Cell-Laden Scaffolds with High Cytocompatibility” ACS Spring 2022, March 20-24, 2022, virtually.

• Sushma Kumari, Pritiranjan Mondal, Kaushik Chatterjee “3D Bioprinting of Photo-cross linkable Kappa-Carrageenan Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications” International Conference on Polymeric Materials in Medicine (ICPMM), India, Feb 2022, virtually.

• Sushma Kumari, Pritiranjan Mondal, Kaushik Chatterjee “3D Bioprinting of Photo-cross linkable Kappa-Carrageenan Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications” International Conference on Polymeric Materials in Medicine (ICPMM), India, Feb 2022, virtually.

• Sushma Kumari, Gregor Lang, Elise Desimone, Susanne Lücker, Thomas Scheibel “Recombinant spider silk-based hydrogels as a prolonged delivery system for therapeutic biologicals” 4th Euro Bio-inspired Materials, Potsdam, Germany, March 19-22, 2018.

Poster Presentations and Conferences Attended

• Sushma Kumari, Pritiranjan Mondal, Kaushik Chatterjee, “3D Bioprinting of Photo-crosslinkable Kappa-Carrageenan Hydrogels to Fabricate Bio constructs” poster presentation in the Biomaterial-Based Therapeutics, Engineering and Medicine (BIOTEM 2021), participated virtually from 17-20 Dec 2021.

• Sushma Kumari, B. B. Dhar, C. Panda, A. Meena, S. Sen Gupta, “Development of Peroxidase Mimic Fe (III) complexes anchored on MSNPs” poster presentation in the “International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry (ISBOC-10)” held at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India, from 11-15th Jan 2015.

• Sushma Kumari, B. B. Dhar, C. Panda, A. Meena, S. Sen Gupta, “Development of Peroxidase Mimic Fe (III) complexes anchored on (Mesoporous Silica NPs)” poster presentation in the “Indo-German Conference on Bioinspired Chemistry (IGCBIC-2014)” held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India from 10-12th Sept 2014.

• Sushma Kumari, A. Kulkarni, G. Kumaraswamy, S. Sen Gupta, “Large Centimeter-Sized Macroporous Ferritin Gel as Versatile Nanoreactors” poster presentation in the “16th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-16)” held at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India from 7-9th Feb 2014.

• Sushma Kumari, G. Kumaraswamy, S. Sen Gupta, “Self Standing Three-Dimensional Macroporous Scaffold using Ferritin and its Application as a Catalyst” poster presentation in the “Third International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials” held in Sorrento, Naples, Italy from 3-7th Mar 2013.

• Sushma Kumari, B. Malvi, S. Sen Gupta, “A Facile Route for Functionalization of Mesoporous Materials using Thiol-Ene Click Chemistry” poster presentation in the “RSC-WEST INDIA SECTION Ph.D. STUDENTS SYMPOSIUM” held at Goa University, Goa, India from 3-4th Sept 2010.