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Responsibilities

  • Head, School of Medical Science and Technology

Research Areas

  • Cancer Drug Discovery
  • Chemoresistance
  • Cell Signaling
  • Cancer Stem Cell
Mahitosh Mandal is a Professor of School of Medical Science and Technology , Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He received his PhD from Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Jadavpur, Kolkata. A former Assistant Professor and Research Scientist of M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, and Visiting faculty of Virginia Common wealth University, Richmond, USA. He was honoured with: Prof S S Katiyar Endowment Award by Indian Science Congress; Subha Mukherjee Memorial Award by Physiological Society of India : Basanti Devi Amir Chand Award by ICMR and National Scholarship by Govt of West Bengal. He is Fellow of the Indian Natl. Science Academy; Indian Academy of Sciences; National Academy of Sciences, India; West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and Royal Society of Biology UK. He is Arvind & Renu Jain Chair Professor & J C Bose National Fellow. He is a member of the Science Education Panel of the Indian Science Academies.Dr Mandal, along with a team of oncologist, physicist and engineers are trying to engineered some nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery ,determine the changes of molecular and bio-electrical properties in cancer.

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Principal Investigator

  • Advancing Breast Cancer Chemo-and Immunotherapy using stimuli-responsive nanoparticle Indian Council of Medical Research, Dept. of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • ANRF International Travel grant for Sucharita Patra (21MM91R08) Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Glycopolymer-Based Mucoadhesive Nanogel for Targeting Cervical Tumor Microenvironment Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Apex Committee of SPARC, Ministry of Education
  • Comprehensive Health Screening Program for Students in the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur IIT KHARAGPUR
  • Deploying a machine learning (ML ) based drug repurposing strategy to identify new small molecules targeting the interaction between Matrix Metalloproteinases and Heat Shock Family Proteins in Glioma Progression Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Apex Committee of SPARC, Ministry of Education
  • Exploring the Complex Influence of TGFbeta-1 on EMT Transition, Angiogenesis, Therapy Resistance and Microenvironment in Cervical Cancer INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH (ICMR)
  • SMST Facility User Charges for External User Various Sponsors

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Designing a reverse vaccinology approach in the construction of a multi-epitope vaccine candidate against the bacterium Neisseria meningitides-mediated glioblastoma Department of Science and Technology and Biotechnology
  • Targeting regulators of phenotypic plasticity to inhibit cancer progression. Ignite Life Science Foundation
  • Tumor Microenvironment Responsive Size-Tunable Multi Therapeutic Nanosystems with Multimodal Imaging Capability Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • Tumor Microenvironment Responsive Size-Tunable Multi-Therapeutic Nanosystems with Multimodal Imaging Capability for Improved Diagnosis Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

Ph. D. Students

Ankita Dey

Area of Research: Cancer Biology

Asmita Das

Area of Research: Cancer Biology

Debjit Maity

Area of Research: Cancer Biology

Deepak K

Area of Research: Cancer Biology

Krishnamohan Govindayapalli

Area of Research: Data Science in Healthcare

Madhurima Mandal

Area of Research: Cancer Biology

Prithwish Kola

Area of Research: Cancer Biology

Priya Ghosh

Area of Research: Cancer Biology

Shoumik Dutta

Area of Research: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Shreya Banerjee

Area of Research: Cancer Biology

Shreya Das

Area of Research: nanomaterial based Microdevices for cancer detection

Sucharita Patra

Area of Research: Cancer Biology

Sushama Rani Sau

Area of Research: Cancer therapy drug delivery

Suvendu Nandi

Area of Research: Cancer Drug Discovery