Completed Projects as Principal Investigator from BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus: 

1.     Project Name: Biodegradable scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering    

Funding Agency: BRNS

Amount: 23.6 Lakhs

Scholar: Priyanka Dwivedi

Year: 2011-2014

2.     Project Name: Advanced study to find out the correlation between S.typhi infection and gall bladder cancer

Funding Agency: Aditya Birla Group of Science and Technology (ABGST)

Research Scholar: Yogesh Walwalkar

Sanctioned Amount: 15.00 Lakhs

Year: 2015-2018

3.     Project Name: Study on EMT regulation through TGFβ/SMADs in gall bladder disease

Funding Agency: DST

Sanctioned Amount:37.5Lakhs

Research Scholar: Laxminarayan Rawath

Year: 2018 – 2021

4.     Project Name: Radiosensitised PEGylated gold nanoparticles mediated drug delivery for oral cancer In vitro

Funding Agency: Goa Cancer Society

Research Scholar: Shameer Ahmed

Sanctioned Amount: 6.00Lakhs

Year: 2019-2022

Ongoing Project as Principal Investigator:

1.     Project Name: Natural polymeric scaffolds incorporated herbal drugs for therapeutic application (One of the PI)

Funding Agency: DBT Builder

Sanctioned Amount: 10Cr

Year: 2021-ongoing

PhD Guided from BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus:

1.Research Scholars Name: Archana Sharma

Thesis Title: Three Dimensional Macroporous polymeric cryogel matrices for soft tissue engineering applications.

Co-PI; Prof. Ashok from IIT Kanpur

Funding Support: BITS and ICMR

PhD Awarded Year: 2015

2.Research Scholars Name: Priyanka Dwivedi

Thesis Title: Development of Novel Tissue Engineering strategies to treat osteoarthritis

Co-PI; Prof. Ashok from IIT Kanpur

Funding Support: BRNS and CSIR

 PhD Awarded Year: 2016

3. Research Scholars Name: Yogesh Walwakar

Thesis Title: A study on correlation of chronic Salmonella typhi infection with gall bladder disease

Funding Support: ABGST and BITS

 PhD Awarded Year: 2016

4.Research Scholars Name: Laxminarayan Rawat

Thesis Title: Study on Anticancer Potential of Piperlongumine and Ursolic acid in human cancer cell lines in vitro

Funding Support: DST and BITS

 PhD Awarded Year: 2021

5.Research Scholars Name: Shameer Ahmed

Thesis Title: Doxorubicin loaded PEGylated gold nanoparticles synthesis and testing as a chemoradiation potential for drug delivery system and radiosensitizer for Oral Squamous Cancer cell line.

Funding Support: Goa Cancer Society and BITS

 PhD Awarded Year: 2022

PhD Guided from Previous Institute as Principal Investigator:

Research Scholars Name: Deepti  Singh

Thesis Title: Polymeric scaffolds for wound healing

Co Guide: Prof: Ashok Kumar, IIT Kanpur

PhD Awarded: MGR University, Chennai.

PhD Guide at present:

1.    Krishna Prasad

Title for Project work: Natural compounds screening for antineoplastic potential in oral and intestinal cancer therapeutics

2.    Pratik Bhat:

Monitoring health and anemia correlation to diseases in Geriatric patients.  

Research Scholars Placement:  

 Archana Sharma: Post doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, USA

2.      Yogesh Walalkar: Research Scientist, Biocon, Bangalore

3.     Lakshminarayan Rawat: Post Doctoral Fellow in Harvard Medical School, USA

4.     Shameer Ahmed: Research Scientist in Novo Nordisk, Bangalore