MANISIT DAS Mob: +91-9432533496 E - mail: manisit@email.unc.edu , mdmanisit@gmail.com ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Research Interests Drug Delivery- Development of novel formulations to treat cancer and other disorders, Nanomedicine – Nanoparticle based therapeutics, Multimodality imaging, Bioconjugate Chemistry

Education

Examination Year Board/University % Marks/CGPA

Integrated Masters (B.Sc. & M.Sc., Chemistry)

2015

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

8.82/10 (Departmental Rank 1)

12th (Sr. Secondary)

2010 West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

90.80 %

10th (Secondary) 2008 West Bengal Board of Secondary Education

95.25 %

Publications

High Performance Lateral-Flow Immunochromatographic Assay Combined with Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Cho I.-H., Das M., Bhandari P., Irudayaraj J., Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2015, 213, 209–214

Chitosan Derivatives Cross-linked with Iodinated 2,5-Dimethoxy–2,5-dihydrofuran for Non-Invasive Imaging Ghosh P., Das M., Rameshbabu A.P., Das D., Dutta S., Pal S., Panda A.B., Dhara S., ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2014, 6 (20), 17926–17936

Patents

Chitosan based biodegradable materials for biomedical applications Ghosh P, Das M, Dhara S., Indian Patent Application - 566/KOL/2013, Publication date 21.11.2014.

Academic projects

Redox active peptide-gallol conjugate: Synthesis and application in generation of antimicrobial silver nanoparticles (Master’s thesis: July, 2014 - May, 2015) Mentor: Dr. Amit Basak, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India

Design of a high performance Surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy integrated lateral flow immunoassay for biomolecular detection (June-July, 2014) Mentor: Dr. Joseph Irudayaraj, Agriculture and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, US

Computer simulation studies of the binding mechanism of N-succinyldiaminopimelic acid with dapE-encoded Nsuccinyl-L,L-diaminopimelic acid desuccinylase (December, 2013) Mentor: Dr. Sabyasachi Mishra, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India

Design of a Macrophage Based Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Platform for Theranostic Application (May-July, 2013)

Mentor: Dr. Yun Min Wang, College of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Synthesis and Characterization of Chitosan based Radio Opaque Biopolymer for Biomedical Applications (May-July, 2012)

Mentor: Dr. Santanu Dhara, School of Medical Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur, India

Technical skills

Instruments- UV-Vis, FTIR, NMR, Raman, DLS, TG-DTA, Clinical X-Ray, XRD, TG-DTA, MRI Relaxometry, TEM, SEM, EDS (Working knowledge in operation, sample preparation & Data Interpretation)

Specific Skills: Lateral flow immunoassay, Fiber wet-spinning, Nanoparticle synthesis (Gold, Iron oxide), Bio-conjugation (EDC/NHS coupling, antibody conjugation), TLC, Column Chromatography

Cell culture: Basic working knowledge of maintaining cultured cells, Subculture of Adherent and Suspension cells, Bio-safety issues.

Computational skills: Computational Methodologies (Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo) Languages- (C, Python), Structural Data representation - Protein Data Bank(PDB), Chemical structure representations (ChemDraw, Avogadro, Pymol, VMD), Docking- AutoDock

Fellowships

2015: Awarded fellowship to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Program (BBSP) & Purdue University’s Interdisciplinary Life Science Graduate Program (PULSe).

2014: Awarded S.N. Bose Scholars Program fellowship by University of Wisconsin- Madison & Indo-U.S.

Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) for pursuing summer research in Department of Agricultural and

Biological Engineering, Purdue University, US.

2014: Awarded MITACS Globalink Research Internship fellowship 2014 for pursuing summer research in

Department of Chemistry at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

2013: Awarded NCTU Taiwan Elite Internship Program fellowship at Department of Biological Science and

Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

2013: Awarded Indian Academy of Science Summer Research Fellowship at Indian Institute of Science (IISc.)

Bangalore.

2012: Awarded Indian Institute of Scientific Education and Research (IISER) Mohali’s Summer Research

Fellowship.

2010: Awarded Inspire SHE scholarship from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for being

in top 1% in 10th and 12th board among 7, 00000+ and 4, 00000+ examinees.

Social Internship

Child Rights and You (Kolkata - May-July, 2011)- Prepared a review report ‘Children in India’s Five year plans’ on govt. implementations in figures, budget allocations, planning and assessment of needs vis-à-vis provisions and utilization of funds.

Extra-curricular Activities

Student Mentor for 1st year Undergraduates under Mentorship Programme by Student Welfare Group, IIT Kharagpur.

Executive & Strategic Team Member of Child Rights & You (CRY) IIT Kharagpur Chapter – o Working on implementation of the provisions of Right to Education (RTE) Act in rural public schools near

Kharagpur. o Organized ‘India Calling’ and ‘Udaan’ - social case study events during Spring Fest (SF) '12 (social-cultural

fest of IIT Kharagpur) and Kshitij (Techno-Management fest of IIT Kharagpur) '13 respectively.

Selected for 2015 Shanghai Regional Finals of the sixth annual Hult Prize, the world’s largest student competition and start-up platform for social good.