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Dr. Chandra P. Sharma is Head, Biosurface Technology Division, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram since January 1980. He has been Associate Head, Biomedical Technology Wing, SCTIMST and presently he is Associate Dean, PhD Affairs. He is also Adjunct Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal University. He is basically a Solid State Physicist from IIT Delhi and received his training in Biomaterials area in the University of Utah (USA) with Prof. D.J. Lyman as a graduate student and in the University of Liverpool, England with Prof. D.F. Williams as a Post Doctoral Research Associate. Dr. Sharma has been awarded FBSE by The International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science & Engineering (IUS-BSE) in 2008 and FBAO (Fellow Biomaterials and Artificial Organs) by Society for Biomaterials & Artificial Organs (India) in 2011. He was also British Council Scholar/Research Fellow at Institute of Medical and Dental Bioengineering, University of Liverpool, UK during June 1989 to September 1989 under Indo-UK Programme, British High Commission, New Delhi. Dr. Sharma has published over 300 research papers with over
2700 citations (Scopus)
and has processed
32 patents including in Canada, European Union, Japan and USA. He has edited several special issues of International Journals as a guest
editor and a book with Dr. Michael Szycher on Blood Compatible Materials and
Devices with Technomic Publishing Company - 1991. He is also editor of the
book "Biointegration
of Medical Implant Materials: Science and Design" with CRC
Press/Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2010. He has been recognized with
various awards and honors such as MRSI medal (1994) and MRSI-ICSC
Superconductivity & Materials Science Annual Prize Award 2009 - Materials Research Society of
India, Distinguished Scientist award - Society for Biomaterials and Artificial
Organs, India (SBAOI) and shares Whitaker and National Science Foundation Award
- International Society for Artificial Organs (ISAO) Dr. Sharma is member of editorial board of several international journals and
many national and international societies and reviewer of reputed journals such
as Molecular Pharmaceutics, Langmuir, Biomacromolecules and Biomaterials etc. He is listed in MARQUIS
WHO'S WHO, Reed Elsevier Inc., NJ. He has also been chosen as the International
Man of the Millennium by IBC Cambridge, England. He is the founder of the Society
for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, India (SBAOI) and the Society for Tissue Engineeering and
Regenerative Medicine, India (STERMI). He is the founder editor - Trends
in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs - a journal published by SBAOI. He has been
the member of IUSBSE since 2003 and observer member since 1996 and has
represented SBAOI as Ambassador in the WBC 2004 - Sydney and WBC 2008 - The projects ongoing and completed by his group relate to the development of
Small Diameter Vascular Graft, Hemoperfusion Column, Artificial Wound Dressing
Materials - Transdermal Delivery system, Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite,
development of nanoparticles and its uses towards drug (peptide) delivery
systems and coatings to enhance tissue compatibility of implants, Hemodialysis
membranes, improvement of Bioprosthetic Heart valve via surface modifications,
and Oral Insulin Delivery Systems (under NMITLI, CSIR, New Delhi) using pH
sensitive microspheres/nanoparticles loaded with liposome/ b-cyclodextrin
derivatives/ lipids encapsulated insulin. Basic activities also relate
understanding of blood/tissue - material interactions at the interface. Recently
Department of Science & Technology, Address for correspondence:-
Dr. Chandra P. Sharma FBAO, FBSE |