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AWARDS AND HONORS

1. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India awarded Senior Research

Fellowship in 2011.

2. Best paper award in 2010 by the Journal “Journal of Material Science: Materials in

Medicine”, Springer Publishers, USA.

3. First Prize for the poster presentation in the Amrita Endocrinology, Diabetes and Diabetic

Foot Conference (AEDFC 2012), held at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and

Research Centre, Cochin, India.

PATENT

1. R. Jayakumar, K. Manzoor, S.V. Nair, Vinoth K Lakshmanan, P. T. Sudheesh Kumar,

S. Abhilash. The art, method, manner, process and system of chitosan hydrogel/nano zinc

oxide membranes for wound dressing applications. Indian Patent, File. No.

1025/CHE/2010.

PUBLICATIONS

1. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, Vinoth-Kumar Lakshmanan, Mincy Raj, Raja Biswas, H.

Tamura, Shantikumar V. Nair, R. Jayakumar. Evaluation of wound healing potential of β-

chitin hydrogel/nano zinc oxide composite bandage. Pharmaceutical Research, 30,

2013, 523-537. (Impact Factor-4.742)

2. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, Vinoth- Kumar Lakshmanan, Raja Biswas, Shantikumar V.

Nair, R. Jayakumar. Synthesis and biological evaluation of chitin hydrogel/nano ZnO

composite bandage as antibacterial wound dressing. Journal of Biomedical

Nanotechnology, 8, 2012, 1-10. (Impact Factor-5.256)

3. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, Vinoth K Lakshmanan, T.V. Anilkumar, C. Ramya, P. Reshmi,

A.G. Unnikrishnan, Shantikumar V. Nair, R. Jayakumar. Flexible and micro-porous

chitosan hydrogel/nano ZnO composite bandages for wound dressing: In vitro & in vivo

evaluation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 4, 2012, 2618-2629.(Impact Factor-

5.008)

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4. R. Jayakumar, M. Prabaharan, P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, S. V. Nair, H. Tamura,

Biomaterials based on chitin and chitosan in wound dressing applications, Biotechnology

Advances, 29, 2011, 322-337. (Impact Factor-9.599)

BOOK CHAPTER

1. R. Jayakumar, M. Prabaharan, P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, S. V. Nair, T. Furuike, H.

Tamura. Novel chitin and chitosan materials in wound dressing. Biomedical Engineering,

Trends in Materials Science, Edited by Anthony N. Laskovski, InTech Publication,

Croatia.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, Vinoth K Lakshmanan, P. Reshmi, Shantikumar V. Nair, A. G.

Unnikrishnan, R. Jayakumar. β-Chitin hydrogel/nano ZnO composite bandages for

wound dressing: In Vitro & in vivo evaluation. NANOBIO- 2012, February 21-23, 2012,

Amrita Centre for Nanosciences, Amrita Institute for Medical Sciences and Research

Centre, Cochin, Kerala, India.

2. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, Vinoth-Kumar Lakshmanan, S. V. Nair, R. Jayakumar.

Development and in vitro evaluation of chitosan hydrogel/nano ZnO composite bandage

as antibacterial wound dressing. International Conference on Nanosciences and

Technology (ICONSAT 2012), Hyderabad, India, January 20-23, 2012.

3. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, Vinoth-Kumar Lakshmanan, S. V. Nair, R. Jayakumar.

Antibacterial and biocompatible chitin hydrogel/nano ZnO composite bandages for

wound Healing. 4th

Bangalore Nano, December 7-9, 2011, Bangalore, India.

4. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, Vinoth-Kumar Lakshmanan, S. V. Nair, R. Jayakumar.

Synthesis and biological evaluation of chitin hydrogel/nano ZnO composite bandage as

antibacterial wound dressing. 2nd

Annual Meeting of Indian Society for Chitin and

Chitosan (ISCC) and Conference on “Chemistry and Biology of Chitin and Chitosan”,

December 4, 2011, Hyderabad, India.

5. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, S. Abhilash, K. Manzoor, S. V. Nair, H. Tamura, R. Jayakumar.

Novel β-chitin/nano silver composite scaffolds for wound dressing applications.

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International Conference on Biomaterials, Artificial Organs and Tissue Engineering

(ICBAT), February 28 and March 1, 2010, Cochin, India.

6. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, S. Abhilash, K. Manzoor, S. V. Nair, H. Tamura, R.

Jayakumar. Development of novel chitosan hydrogel membranes with ZnO nanoparticles

for wound tissue engineering applications. NANOBIO- 2009, February 17-19, 2009,

Amrita Centre for Nanosciences, Amrita Institute for Medical Sciences and Research

Centre, Cochin, Kerala, India.

7. P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, S. Abhilash, K. Manzoor, S. V. Nair, H. Tamura, R.

Jayakumar. Development of novel chitosan hydrogel membranes with ZnO nanoparticles

for wound tissue engineering applications. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology initiative

(NSNT) Biannual review meeting, March 12-15, 2009, SN Bose institute, Kolkata, India.

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