Dr. Appan Roychoudhury
Assistant Professor
Department of Biotechnology
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: appanrc[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 0000000000(O) +91-9555780479(M)
Other Academic Achievements
- Keynote Address/Invited Talks in Conferences & Workshops:
- Invited talk on ‘Engineering Electrochemical Biosensing Platform for Circulating microRNA Detection’ at Frontiers of Engineering for Healthcare meeting at IIT Gandhinagar on 10 December 2025
- Invited talk on ‘Advances in Electrochemical Biosensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics: From Concept to Application’ at Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on AI-Driven Innovations and Emerging Trends in Biomedical Engineering, organized by Vignans Foundation for Science, Technology and Research on 17 June 2026
- Conferences Attended for Presenting Paper:
- 7th International Conference on Bio-Sensing Technology, Sitges, Spain (2022)
- 28th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors (BIOSENSORS 2018), Miami, Florida, USA (2018)
- International Conference on Current Trends in Materials Science and Engineering (CTMSE 2018), SN Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India (2018)
- 3rd Indo-Austrian Symposium on Advances in Materials Engineering (AME 2016), IIT Bombay, India (2016)
- 13th International Symposium on Bioscience and Nanotechnology, Toyo University, Saitama, Japan (2015)
- 4th International Conference on Bio-sensing Technology, Lisbon, Portugal (2015)
- Indo-US Workshop on Nanoengineering in Medicine, AIIMS New Delhi, India (2014)
- 21st International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM XXI), IIT Guwahati, India (2012)
- Award and Honors:
- Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship (2024) - Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India
- Distinction in Doctoral Research (2019) - IIT Delhi
- Visiting Research Fellow at Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Japan (2015) – Toyo University and IIT Delhi
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Biotechnology (2010) - Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Govt. of India
- International Travel Grant (2018) - Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Govt. of India
- International Travel Support (2015) - Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India
- On-going Projects:
- DBT, GoI funded Ramalingaswami Re-entry program on ‘Point of Care Detection of Blood Circulating Biomarkers for Clinical Diagnostics‘ with sanctioned amount ₹89 Lakhs (Role: PI)
- Projects Completed:
- UKRI-Innovate UK funded ICURe Explore program on ‘PointLiverDx – Rapid Point-of-care Tests for Liver Health‘ with sanctioned amount £34,041 (Role: Co-PI)