Biography

Dr. Singh earned his PhD degree at the University of Allahabad (Allahabad) and did postdoctoral research at the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore), Joseph Fourier University (France), and Rutgers University (USA). Prior to joining IIT Ropar, he was an Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University (USA). His research interests are in broad areas of biomaterials, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. In particular, his group is working on polymer and peptide-based hydrogels/gels and nanomaterials for microbicide delivery, chemotherapeutic agent delivery, wound healing, and tissue engineering applications. He has published 57 papers/reviews in peer-reviewed journals, 4 patents, 5 book chapters, and more than 122 conference abstracts. He has given more than 100 keynote, invited, and guest lectures around the country. He is an Assistant Editor of the sixth edition of Martin's Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, a major textbook for pharmacy schools worldwide. He has mentored 2 postdoctoral fellows, 8 PhD students, 24 MSc/MTech project students, and 23 summer interns.

Announcements

• Congratulations to Vatan, Soumyajit, John, and Pruthviraj on publishing their work in ACS Applied Bio Materials, published by the American Chemical Society

• Congratulations to Vatan on publishing his collaborative work in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, published by the Elsevier (with Dimpy Bhardwaj and Dr. Garima Agrawal, IIT Mandi)

• Congratulations to Vatan and Pruthviraj, PhD students in the group, on their manuscript being accepted for publication in Biomacromolecules, published by the ACS

• Congratulations to Soumyajit, a PhD student in our group, on successfully defending his PhD thesis on 22 January 2025 (primary advisor: Dr. Durba Pal)

• Congratulations to Vatan, a PhD student in our group, on successfully defending his PhD thesis on 19 December 2024

• Congratulations to Nahida and Yashika, PhD students in our group, on their manuscript being accepted for publication in Chemistry - An Asian Journal, published by the Wiley

• Congratulations to Deepa, a PhD student in our group, on successfully defending her PhD thesis on 21 October 2024

• Congratulations to Deepa, a PhD student in our group, on her collaborative manuscript being accepted for publication in ACS Applied Nano Materials (with Dr. D. Pal's group)

• Congratulations to Pruthviraj, Vatan, and Ankur, PhD and MSc students in our group, on their manuscript being accepted for publication in ACS Applied Nano Materials

• Congratulations to Moumita and Vatan, PhD students in our group, on their manuscript being accepted for publication in Nanoscale, published by the RSC, UK (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2024/NR/D4NR02672A) 

• Congratulations to Deepa, a PhD student in our group, on her manuscript being accepted for publication in Biomaterials Science, published by the RSC, UK

• Congratulations to Nahida, a PhD student in our group, on successfully completing her thesis defense seminar on 31 May 2024

• Congratulations to Pruthviraj, a PhD student in our group, on winning the best poster presentation award at the TransMat 2K24: International Conference on Translational Materials for Sustainable Technology, Department of Physics, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, 1-4 February 2024

• Congratulations to Tumpa, a master student in our group, on winning the best oral presentation award at the International Conference- Advances in Pharmaceutical Science Bridging Academy and Industry (APS 2024), St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi 

• Congratulations to Vatan, a PhD student in our group, on winning the best oral presentation award at the International Conference and Start-up Summit on Functional Biomaterials and Synthetic Biology (FBSB-2023), PSG Institute of Advanced Studies, Coimbatore, 31 August-1 September 2023

• Congratulations to Moumita, a PhD student in our group, on successfully completing her thesis defense seminar in 2023

• Congratulations to Ananya, a master student in our group, on winning the best oral presentation award at the Biomaterials Online Conclave 2022 (Bone Biomaterials Symposium), National Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Madras, Chennai, 7-15 March 2022 

• Congratulations to Meghna, a master student in our group, on winning the best oral presentation award at the APA Bioforum: International e-Conference on Polymeric Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Asian Polymer Association, 27-28 August 2021 

• Congratulations to Moumita, a PhD student in our group, on winning the Prof. S. Rajeswari best poster award at the International Virtual Conference on Biomedical Materials Innovation - 2020 (ICBMI-2020), Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 6-9 December 2020