Prestigious fellowship to IIT-G faculty

GUWAHATI, Nov 14 - IIT Guwahati faculty Prof Biman B Mandal has been awarded the prestigious Swarna Jayanti Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology for the year 2019-2020 in the Life Science category for his research in the area of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

During the fellowship period, Prof Mandal of the Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering and Centre for Nanotechnology and Associate Dean, Academics (UG) at IIT Guwahati, will be working on a project titled �Modelling human liver micro architecture and cellular physiology in vitro using 3D bioprinting for drug toxicity and high throughput drug screening applications�.