Kumar Vedantham

Biography

 Kumar is a Chemical Engineer by background and a Doctorate in Pharmaceutical science from Perdue University. Before being Senior Research Fellow at Nanyang Technical University -Singapore, he was a Research Scientist at Mercy Medical , Springfield USA , where was a key member of product development – bio adhesives and drug delivering contact lenses, where he has published patents in his name. He graduated from Purdue University, USA. Kumar was earlier a Post Doc Research Fellow in Orthopaedic Biomaterials and tissue Engineering lab in Center for Biomedic Systems in Charlotte, USA, where he Served as a project lead to engineer the drug delivery for synergistic delivery of antibiotics and bone morphogenetic protein for treatment of osteomyelitis. He also lead a project in collaboration with Carolina Medical Center (CMC, charlotte, USA) in designing a novel controlled release drug delivery system in treatment of liver cancer. Served as a co-principal investigator for R-15 proposal submitted to National Institute of Health (NIH, USA). Earlier he was with Vertex Pharma , Masschusetts in Formulation development and did an internship with Bristol Myers Squibb New York. He has about 8 publications/book chapters and has presented his work in 6 conferences.

Research Interest

 Plastic Surgery, Trauma & Acute Care, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Aesthetic & Reconstructive Surgery