Aug 2026 Selected for the Start-Up Grant for Induction into Biomedical & Health Research of the Department of Health Research (DHR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (HRD Scheme, 2026-27 call), for the three-year project "High-Resolution Microfluidic Whole-Blood Viscometer for Point-of-Care Pre-Eclampsia Severity Stratification", with Dr. Himangshu Malakar, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, AIIMS Guwahati, as Co-PI. A Junior Research Fellow position on the project will be advertised through IIT Guwahati in due course; see Openings.
Aug 2026 Jobila Myrphet joined the lab as a PhD student.
Jul 2026 Dr. Sandeep Kumar Yadav joined the lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
Jul 2026 Vaibhav Kanthamneni joined the lab as a Research Intern.
Jun 2026 Priyadharshini J M participated in the India BioImaging Microscopy and Image Analysis Training Course at IIT Guwahati. See post
Mar 2026 Jyoti Kumari joined the lab as a PhD student.
Nov 2025 IIT Guwahati Institute Start-up Grant awarded for the project "Pathogen dynamics at micro-scale: Fundamentals and Applications."
Nov 2025 Session and poster chair at ICOM 2025, the International Conference on Micro Nano Fluidics, IIT Guwahati.
Oct 2025 Organizing team and poster chair for the Research & Industrial Conclave (RIC) 2025, IIT Guwahati.
Sep 2025 Session and poster chair at the Symposium on Advances in Thermo-Fluid Sciences, IIT Guwahati.
Sep 2025 Hosted Prof. Anupam Sengupta (University of Luxembourg) at the Biosensing & Biophysics Lab.
Sep 2025 Priyadharshini J M joined the lab as an MTech student.
Sep 2025 Praanesh C joined the lab as an MTech student.
Sep 2025 Rithish Prabhu A joined the lab as an MTech student.
Sep 2025 Aditya Meghwal joined the lab as an MTech student.
Jun 2025 Patent granted for "A Point of Care System Comprising Blood/Body Fluid Counting Kit" (No. 568043).
Jun 2025 Joined IIT Guwahati as Assistant Professor; the Biosensing & Biophysics Lab is open and recruiting.
2021 Received the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award for the point-of-care spinning disc for complete blood count.
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