Bikramjit Basu

Professor

Ph: Off: +91-80-2293 3256
Fax:+91-80-2360 7316
E-mail: bikram@mrc.iisc.ernet.in
Website: http://bikramjitbasu.in/

Biography

EDUCATION:

2011	Post-Doctoral Research, University of California, Santa Barbara Campus
2001	PhD (Great Distinction), Materials Engineering; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
1997	Masters of Engineering (First Class), Metallurgy; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
1995	Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honors), Metallurgical Engineering, NIT Durgapur, India

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

06/18-06/23	Honorary Professor, School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
04/18-04/21 12/14-present	Guest Professor, Wuhan University of Technology, China Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
05/11-12/14	Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
12/07-05/11	Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
11/01-12/07	Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
04/17-04/19	Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Dental Science, Ramaiah Univ. of Appl. Sci.,Bangalore
05/07-07/07	Visiting Professor, ERASMUS Mundus Masters Prog., Univ. Polytechnica Catalonia, Spain

OTHER APPOINTMENTS/ POSITIONS:

Member

2018-present	Vice President	Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, India (IUSBSE member)
2015-2018	Research Council, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences
2017-present	Advisory board Member	Ants Ceramics, Vasai; Vidcare Innovations, Pune; Excel Matrix Biological Devices Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad; Synthera Biomedical, Pune
2018-present	Board of Director	AIC-AMTZ Medi Valley Incubation council, Visakhapatnam

HONORS:

2019	FACerS – Fellow, American Ceramic Society
2017	FIMMM – Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK FAMS- Fellow, National Academy of Medical Sciences FAIMBE- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
2015	FNAE- Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
2014	FBAO-Fellow, Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs FAScT- Fellow, West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology
2013	FNASc – Fellow, National Academy of Sciences India

AWARDS:

2018	Global Ambassador award, American Ceramic Society, USA Chartered Engineer (CEng.), Engineering Council, UK Distinguished Alumnus, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, India
2014	National Bioscience Award for Career Development, Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India
2013	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Govt. of India
2011	Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal
2010	NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for the meritorious contributions in the field of Engineering Sciences, Elsevier partnered with National Academy of Sciences, India ‘Metallurgist of the Year’, Ministry of Steels, Government of India
2009	P K Kelkar Fellowship (outstanding young faculty), IIT Kanpur for the period 2009-2011
2008	Distinguished Overseas Guest Lecturer, TUBITAK, National Science Foundation, Turkey Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars, American Ceramic Society
2005	‘Young Scientist’ award, Indian National Science Academy (INSA)
2004	‘Young Engineer’ award, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
2003	‘Young Scientist award (R. L. Thakur Memorial Award)’, Indian Ceramics Society

Research

Professor Bikramjit Basu has been pursuing research on multifunctional ceramics over more than a decade, and successfully engineered biomaterials that impact areas such as healthcare, renewable energy and aerospace. The knowledge and experience required to work in these inter-disciplinary areas are his undergraduate education in Metallurgy, doctoral training in engineering ceramics and independent research career in Materials Science.

Key contributions:

1. His early research advanced the concepts of rapid manufacturing approach to control microstructure of toughened nanostructured ceramics over multiple length scales for tribological applications in extreme environments.

2. Subsequently, his research ventured into the area of ultrahigh temperature ceramic development for hypersonic aero-vehicles and lately, absorbers for solar energy harvesting.

Over the years, he has taken up more challenging research problems, that required integration of concepts across the boundaries of traditional disciplines of biology and medicine to address human healthcare issues. Conducting quantitative experiments along with computational and pre-clinical studies, his laboratory has developed:

1. new multifunctional biomaterials (‘Piezobiocomposites’ with bone-mimicking functional properties),

2. new processing approaches (3D inkjet powder printing)

3. new concepts (intermittent delivery of electrical/magnetic stimulation, in vitro) to understand biophysical stimulation-mediated modulation of cell functionality.

His research and related contributions have led to 260 research articles, 18 review papers, 5 textbooks, 10 book chapters and 8900 citations (H-index: 50, Google Scholar). His work focused on the end-to-end integration of manufacturing lifecycle of biomedical implants and materials, that lead to introduction of new technologies. Collaborative work of academia and national laboratories with intensive-interactive inputs from clinicians/industries played an important role:

1. In the field of healthcare, he has introduced 3 technologies, two of which were transferred to the industrial partners.

2. The translational feasibility of these technologies and biomaterial implants into commercialisation, has matured towards an advanced stage through his efforts to create a national consortium (BIM2) and his co-founded company, Modern Bio-Implants Pvt. Ltd. as well as other Micro-Small-Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in India.

Representative Publications

1	Ravikumar K, V Kumaran, Bikramjit Basu	Biophysical implications of Maxwell stress in an electric field stimulated cellular microenvironment on biomaterial substrates	Biomaterials, (2019)
2	Subbaraj Karunakaran, Subhendu Pandit, Bikramjit Basu and Mrinmoy De	Simultaneous Exfoliation and Functionalization of 2H-MoS₂ by Thiol Surfactants: Applications in Enhanced Antibacterial Activity	Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140 (39), (2018), 12634–12644
3	Greeshma T., B. Sunilkumar and Bikramjit Basu	Unravelling the mechanistic effects of electric field stimulation towards directing stem cell fate and function: a tissue engineering perspective	Biomaterials, 150, (2018), 60-86
4	Sharmistha Naskar, V. Kumaran, Bikramjit Basu;	On the Origin of Shear Stress Induced Myogenesis Using PMMA Based Lab-on-Chip	ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 3(6), (2017), 1154–1171
5	Greeshma Thrivikraman, Giridhar Madras and Bikramjit Basu	Electrically driven intracellular and extracellular nanomanipulators evoke neurogenic/cardiomyogenic differentiation in human mesenchymal stem cells.	Biomaterials, 77, (2016), 26-43
6	Yashoda Chandorkar, Nitu Bhaskar, Giridhar Madras and Bikramjit Basu	Long Term, Sustained Release of Salicylic Acid from Crosslinked, Biodegradable Polyesters induces Reduced Foreign Body Response in Mice.	Biomacromolecules, 16(2), (2015), 636–649
7	Sunil Kumar Boda, Greeshma T. and Bikramjit Basu	Magnetic field assisted stem cell differentiation- role of substrate magnetization in osteogenesis.	Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 3, (2015), 3150-3168
8	Greeshma Thrivikraman, Prafulla Kumar Mallik and Bikramjit Basu	Substrate conductivity dependent modulation of cell proliferation and differentiation in vitro.	Biomaterials, 34, (2013), 7073-7085
9	Shilpee Jain, Ashutosh Sharma and Bikramjit Basu	Vertical electric field stimulated neuronal cell functionality on porous amorphous carbon electrodes.	Biomaterials, 34, (2013), 9252-9263
10	Jaba Mitra, Shilpee Jain, Ashutosh Sharma and Bikramjit Basu	Patterned growth and differentiation of neural cells on polymer derived carbon substrates with micro/nanostructures structures in vitro.	Carbon, 65, (2013), 140-155

Students

Gowtham N H	PhD	gowthamn@iisc.ac.in
Soumitra Das	PhD	soumitradas@iisc.ac.in
Deepa Mishra	PhD	mdeepa@iisc.ac.in
Sulob Roy Chowdhury	PhD	sulobc@iisc.ac.in
Bijay Kumar Karali	PhD	bijaykarali@iisc.ac.in
Dhrmendra Sablaniya	PhD	dhrmendras@iisc.ac.in
Garga Mondal	MSc	gargamondal@iisc.ac.in