Dr. Chandra is currently employed as an Associate Professor and principal investigator at the School of Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. He heads the Laboratory of Bio-Physio Sensors & Nanobioengineering. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Biophysio Sensor Technology, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, and did post-doctoral training at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. He has published over 140 research articles in reputed journals and 20 books. He is also a visiting scientist at IBST, South Korea. Pranjal's research contributions are highly interdisciplinary, spanning a wide range in nanobiotechnology, nanobiosensors, lab-on-chip systems for biomedical diagnostics, and nanomedicine. His work has been highlighted in the World News of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge as "A new system for cancer detection” and also featured as a key scientific article in the Global Medical Discovery News Canada. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards and fellowships such as; the ICMR-Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize, FSSAI Eat Right Research Award, Ramanujan fellowship and Early Career Research Award (Government of India), BK-21 and NRF fellowship of South Korea, Technion post-doctoral fellowship, Israel, University of Montreal Post-doc fellowship, Canada, NMS Young scientist Award (2016), and several.  Know More Here