Dr. Sankarprasad Bhuniya

Biography

Dr. Sankarprasad Bhuniya currently serves as Research Professor at Amrita Center for Industrial Research & Innovation and Amrita Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials and Green Technologies. He is also a Professor at the department of Chemical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. Dr. Sankarprasad Bhuniya did M. Sc. in Chemistry (1995) and Ph. D. (Polymer) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2000. He worked in Korea Basic Science Institute, Ochang, South Korea (2013-2014) prior to join in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. He did postdoctoral research in Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH, 2003—2006), South Korea. He worked in the field of nucleic acid chemistry and supramolecular hydrogel. After spending short-time ( July-Dec. 2006) research at BCPS Department in Illinois institute of Technology, USA retuned to India and joined as Senior Scientist to GVK Bioscience private limited (2007-2009). Latter he moved to Korea and joined as Research Professor to Korea University (2009- 2013). He has major research expertise in the field of theranostic drug delivery system for cancer therapy; biomaterials for bioimaging using fluorogenic and MRI modalities. He has published 34 research articles in peer reviewed international journal in chemistry & biomaterials with average impact factor 6.00; Scopus citation index 995 & h- index 17 and 3 patent publications.

Research Interest

He has major research expertise in the field of theranostic drug delivery system for cancer therapy; biomaterials for bioimaging using fluorogenic and MRI modalities