Dr. Rinti Banerjee
Professor
Biomedical Engineering Group                                            IIT Bombay

Phone : +(91-22) 2576 7868 (Direct); 2572-2545 (x-7868)

Fax     : +(91-22) 2572 3480

Email  : rinti{at}iitb.ac.in

 

Mailing Address :

Prof.  Rinti  Banerjee

Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

IIT-Bombay, Powai

Mumbai 400 076

India

  For details : Biomaterials and Bio-interface laboratory

 

Academic Background

Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, School of Biosciences & Bioengineering , IIT Bombay since March 2005
  • Assistant Professor, School of Biosciences & Bioengineering at IIT Bombay 2001-2005.
  • Postdoctoral fellow at Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco USA 1999-2001.
  • Received a fellowship for research at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK working on Pulsating Bubble Surfactometer, June-July 1998.

 

Research Interest

  • Biological surfactant replacements: lung surfactant dysfunction and replacements
  • Biomaterials: replacements and compatibility
  • Bio-interfaces: Langmuir films of membranes
  • Bionanotechnology: nanoparticles as drug and growth factor carriers
  • Drug delivery systems: liposomes, gels
  • Tissue engineering: cartilage replacements
  • Biorheology: in situ gels

 

Teaching

  • Introduction to Bionanotechnology
  • Biomaterials
  • Advanced Biomaterials
  • Experimental and Quantitative Physiology (Bio-interfaces module)
  • Physiology for Engineers
  • Clinical Physiology
  • Biorheology
  • Biostatistics and design of Experiments

 

Awards and Achievements

·         Felicitation by Society for Cancer Research and Communication for research achievements, 2008.

·         AICTE Career Young Teacher Award 2005-2006

·         Young Researcher Grant Award from the International Foundation for Science, Sweden 2004

·         Young Scientist Award in Life Sciences from the Department of Atomic Energy, India 2004

·         Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Council, Department of Science & Technology, India 2003

·         MAHE Award for the best paper in the XIVth National Conference on Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, Bombay India 2003

·         Awarded the Sumant Moolgaonkar Memorial Award, for research on lung surfactants, 1998.

·         Awarded National Talent Search Scholarship (NTS) (1988-1996)

·         Member of Executive Committee, Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, India, 2005-2008.

·         Member Editorial Board, Trends in Biomaterials & Artificial Organs

·         Invited editorials in Chest, India edition

·         Reviewer for several international journals in the fields of Biomaterials and Drug Delivery

·         Reviewer for grant proposals in Bioengineering in areas of biomaterials, tissue engineering, nanobiotechnology for DBT, India, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.

Publications

Present Students:  Dr Biji Balakrishnan, Dr. Geetanjali Chimote, Pallab Pradhan, Dharmendra Jain, Anubhav Kaviratna, Apurva Shah, S Thanigavel, Manshjit Gogoi, Deepti Dyondi, Nitin Joshi, Edmund Carvalho, Niharika Gupta, Shruti Guha Sarkar, Aditi Varshney, Mukesh Paradiya, Priyank Kulshrestha, Rama Saha
Past Students: Dr Rachana, Dr. Preetha Anand, Dr Neelesh Soman, Dr Saikat Das, K Vijayanand, Shalu Suri, Dr Sachin Sarate, Ankur Singh, Dr Kanishtha Tuli, Dr. Mangesh Kulkarni, Vijay Sharma, Vasanta Pallem, Bhavik Manocha