Chittaranjan PatraChittaranjan Patrareceived his B.Sc (1995) and M.Sc (1997) in Chemistry from the University of Burdwan, W.B. He was awarded the "Dr. Mrigendranath Ghosh Gold Medal" for obtaining first class and first rank in B.Sc Chemistry (Hons) Examination in 1995from The University of Burdwan, India.He completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2003 as CSIR Fellow(April 1998- March 2003) fromNational Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune.Thereafter, he received his postdoctoral experience (March 2003-October 2004) as 'Nanotechnologist' from Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. After that he moved to Mayo Clinic, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in October 2004 as postdoc followed by Assistant Professor in the same Department.Here Dr. Patra explored the field of nanobiotechnology for cancer and angiogenesis. Dr. Patra moved to CSIR-IICT-Hyderabad in 2010 after receiving prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship, from DST-New Delhi. Currently, Dr. Patra is working as Principal Scientistat Department of Applied Biology, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) and his research group is pursuing various nanomedicine research projects aimed at developing advanced nanomaterials and nanoparticles-based drug delivery systems (DDS) for treatment of cancer, cardiovascular and ischemic disease. Read More Read Less