Rate My Professor Nikhil Jana

Nikhil Ranjan Jana is a Senior Professor in the School of Materials Sciences at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata. He obtained his BSc in Chemistry from Calcutta University in 1987, followed by an MSc in 1989 and a PhD in Chemistry in 1994 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. After his PhD, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of South Carolina from September 1999 to October 2001. Subsequently, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore from January 2004 to March 2008. He joined IACS in April 2008 as a faculty member, advancing to Full Professor by July 2020 and later to Senior Professor.

A chemist by training, Professor Jana's research lies at the interface of chemistry, biology, and materials science, focusing on the development of inorganic and organic nanoparticles transformed into nanobioconjugates for biomedical applications. His key research interests encompass cell-nanoparticle interactions, the influence of nanoparticle multivalency on endocytosis, sub-cellular imaging probes, and nanoprobes designed to inhibit protein aggregation in the brain associated with neurodegenerative diseases. He has published over 190 journal articles, including highly cited works such as 'Direct Cellular Delivery of Exogenous Genetic Material and Protein via Colloidal Nano-Assemblies with Biopolymer' (2022), 'Piezoelectric Nanoparticles for Ultrasound-Based Wireless Therapies' (2022), and 'Fluorescent carbon dots as intracellular imaging probes' (2020). He is the author of books including 'Colloidal Nanoparticles: Functionalization for Biomedical Applications' and 'An Overall Account of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy'. Professor Jana received the Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal in 2015 and has been recognized as one of the top 2% scientists globally by Stanford University rankings. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and as an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Nano Materials, contributing significantly to the field of nanomedicine through innovations in drug delivery, cell therapy, imaging, and reactive oxygen species generation for therapeutic purposes.