B. Manitha Nair

Biography

Dr. Manitha B. Nair joined ACNSMM in January 2012. Dr. Manitha has completed her M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Kerala University (2003) and PhD from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India (2009). She pursued post-doctoral research in Mikos Lab, Rice University, USA, and in Platt Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. She has also worked in Max Bergmann Centre for Biomaterials, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, in 2006 as a part of DST-DAAD project (Indo-German personnel exchange programme). Dr. Manitha has received several awards throughout her academic career that includes MAHE award (2015) for the best scientific paper presented by a Faculty during the Indo-Australian BiTERM Conference; Innovative Young Biotechnology Award (2012) from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India; Best Poster presentation Award (2009) at NANOBIO International Conference; Young Scientist Award (2007) in Health Science category in 19th Kerala Science Congress; First Hitachi High Technologies Best Poster Award (2006) in Life Sciences in the National Conference on Electron Microscopy; ZEISS Best Photomicrograph Award (2006) in Life Sciences in the National Conference on Electron Microscopy; and CSIR- UGC-NET Scholarship (2004). One of her paper was selected as the “Featured article” by Elsevier publication in the year 2008 [Acta Biomaterialia 2008; 4: 173–181]. Dr. Manitha has several National and International journal publications to her credit. She serves as a reviewer to several international journals in biomedical research. She is the member of Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (India), and Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI). Her current research focus is towards biomaterials for bone regeneration.

Research Interest

Nanosciences