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 Dr. Pradip Dey

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Chemistry, Siksha Bhavana

  Visva-Bharati (A Central University)

  Santiniketan-731235, WB, India

Work Experience

07/2021-Present             Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati (A Central University,                                              Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

01/2020-05/2021            Post-doctoral Fellow under the mentorship of Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro at Tel Aviv                                            University, Israel.

04/2017-12/2019            Post-doctoral Fellow under the mentorship of Prof. Suhrit Ghosh at IACS Kolkata,                                               India.

11/2015-03/2017            Post-doctoral Fellow under the mentorship of Prof. Rainer Haag at Freie Universität                                             Berlin, Germany.

09/2014-10/2014            Visiting project student during Ph.D., Montréal Neurological Institute and Hospital,                                            McGill University, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. Timothy E Kennedy

Education

                  Degree                                                 University/ Institution            

                Ph. D. (2010-15)                                         Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

                                                                                 Supervisor: Prof. Rainer Haag

          M. Sc. in Chemistry (2008-10)                      Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India;                                                                                                     Project Supervisor:  Professor  Parimal K. Bharadwaj

         B. Sc. in Chemistry (Honors, 2005-08)          Presidency College (affiliated with University of Calcutta) 

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Area of Research

My research interest lies at the interface of chemistry and biology to target cancer and infectious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, Covid-19, etc., using nanomedicine and developing biodegradable 3D-printable hydro/microgels for type 1 diabetes and tissue engineering applications. Basically, I am focused on the following fundamental and interdisciplinary projects where various macromolecular architectures ranging from linear, hyperbranched, dendronized linear, brush polymer, nano and microgels, etc., will be utilized for biomedical applications.

  • Polymeric Microgels as Reservoir of Islet Cells for Sustain Release of Insulin

  • Reactive Oxygen Species Responsive Amphiphilic Polymers for Drug Delivery

  • Design and Development of Homogeneous Dendronized Polymeric Hydrogels for 3D bioprinting of Organoids

Number of Ph.D. Students: 4 (Ongoing)

Number of M.Sc. Project Students: 4 (Ongoing) + 7 (Completed)

Five Key Publications

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  • R. K. Roy, T. Samanta, S. Saha, A. Ramesh, N. A. Begum, G. Ghosh, and P. Dey* Aromatic vs. Aliphatic Linkers: Impact on Dye Loading and Stability in Oligoglycerol-Derived Dendronized Polymersomes, Polymer Chemistry, 2025, 16, 27-35 (Link). (Impact Factor – 3.9, 2024), * Corresponding author.

  • P. Dey, P. Rajdev, P. Pramanik, R. Haag, and S. Ghosh, Synthesis of Cylindrical Micelle from Hydrophilic Polymers Connected with a Single Supramolecular Structure-Directing Unit, Macromolecules, 2020, 53 (16), 7044-7052 (Link). (Impact Factor – 5.2, 2024)

  • P. Dey,# T. Bergmann,# J. L. Cuellar-Camacho, S. Ehrmann, M. S. Chowdhury, M. Zhang, R. Haag, W. Azab, Multivalent Flexible-Nanogels Exhibit Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Activity by Blocking Virus Entry, ACS Nano, 2018, 12, 6429-6442 (Link). (Impact Factor – 16, 2024), # Equally contributed,

  • S. Koshrovski-Michael, D. Rodriguez Ajamil, P. Dey, R. Satchi-Fainaro et. al., Two-in-One Nanoparticle Platform Enhances the Therapeutic Index of Targeted Therapies in P-selectin-expressing Cancers, Science Advances, 2024, 10, eadr4762. (Link) (Impact Factor 12.5, 2024).

  • P. Dey, M. Adamovski, S. Friebe, A. Badalyan, R. Mutihac, F. Paulus, S. Leimkühler, U. Wollenberger, and R. Haag, Dendritic Polyglycerol−Poly(ethylene glycol)-Based Polymer Networks for Biosensing Application, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2014, 6, 8937 (Link). (Impact Factor – 8.2, 2024)

Academic Achievements & Recognitions

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  • Member of the Early Career Researcher (ECR) editorial board of Wiley Polymer Journals (Since January 2026 - present)

  • Member of Editorial Board of Scientific Reports (Springer Nature)

  • Recipient of Paired Early Career Fellowship in Applied Research (PECFAR award) from IGSTC (Call 2025)

  • Recipient of Start-up research grant (SRG, 2022) by SCIENCE & ENGINEERING RESEARCH BOARD (SERB)

  • Life member of CRSI

  • Recipient of National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF), SERB (April 2017 – March 2019)

  • Recipient of Dahlem Research School (DRS) Honors (Post Doc) Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin from July 2016 – March 2017

  • Recipient of prestigious BIG NSE scholarship (Berlin International Graduate School for Natural Sciences and Engineering) from the cluster of excellence UniCat (Technical University Berlin) for carrying out Ph. D at the universities in Berlin (October 2010 – September 2013)

  • Qualified GATE 2009 (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)

  • Qualified CSIR-NET (December 2009) examination

  • Recipient of Merit-cum-Means (MCM) scholarship (2008-10) from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) KanpurQualified JAM 2008 (Joint Admission Test for M.Sc.) conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.)

  • Recipient of National Merit Scholarship (2003-2005) from West Bengal Board of Secondary Education

Contributed/ Invited Presentations

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  • One-Day International Seminar on “Innovation, Expansion, Impacts, and Challenges in Chemical and Biological Sciences (6th ICBS-2026)”, on December 20, 2025, on Synthesis and Self-assembly of Amphiphilic Polythiourethanes: Effect of Backbone Hydrophobicity on Dye Loading and Stability  at the Surendranath College Auditorium, Kolkata, India (Invited Lecture).

  • 18th International Conference on “Polymer Science and Technology (SPSI MACRO-2025)” organized by IIT Kharagpur, India, and the Society of Polymer Science India (SPSI) India, (15th – 18th December 2025) on Synthesis and Self-assembly of Amphiphilic Polythiourethanes: Effect of Backbone Hydrophobicity on Dye Loading and Stability at IIT Kgp research center, Kolkata.

  • Symposium on Polymer Science (SPS 2023) organized by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, West Bengal, India ( 17-18th November 2023), A Journey of Polyglycerol Sulfates from Tissue Engineering to Virus Inhibition and Targeted Drug Delivery (Invited Lecture)

  • 16th International Conference on “Polymer Science and Technology of Polymers and Advanced Materials through Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Industry (SPSI MACRO-2022)” organized by CSIR-NCL, IISER-P and SPPU in Pune, India, (2nd – 4th November 2022) on “Co-delivery of BRAF and MEK Inhibitors using P-selectin-targeted PLGA-PEG Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Melanoma” (Flash Poster Presentation)

  • APSRT 2019 on “Advances in Polymer Science & Rubber Technology; Vision 2030” organized by Rubber Technology Center, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India (24-27th September 2019), Entropy Driven Precision Assembly of Engineered Amphiphilic Macromolecules and their Uptake in Cancer CellsIndo-German Workshop on “Multivalent Architectures for Biomedical Applications” organized by Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi, India (5-6th April 2019), Entropy Driven Precision Assembly of Engineered Amphiphilic Macromolecules

  • 15th International Conference on Polymer Science and Technology 2018 (SPSI MACRO-2018), Pune, India (19-22 December), Dendritic Polyglycerol based Polyanionic Hydro-and Nanogels for Biomedical Applications

  • International Dendrimer Symposium 2015 (IDS-9), Montreal, Canada (12-17 July), Dendritic Polyglycerolsulfate (dPGS) based Injectable Hydrogels for Cartilage Tissue EngineeringEuropean Polymer Federation (EPF) 2015, Dresden, Germany (21-26 June), Heparin mimetic dendritic polyglycerol sulfate based injectable hydrogels for cartilage tissue engineering

  • Euro BioMAT 2015: European symposium and exhibition on biomaterials and related areas, Weimar, Germany (21-22 April), Heparin mimetic dendritic polyglycerol sulfate based injectable hydrogels for cartilage tissue engineering

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