Dr. Akshay Srivastava, Ph.D.
Associate Professor , Department of Medical Devices
Research Interest
- Technological innovation through strong basic knowledge in biological sciences thrive my interest in translational research with the aim of improving public health.
- I am interested in pursuing translational biomedical research involving fabrication of biomaterial based medical devices, finding novel therapeutic strategies for tissue regeneration and developing in vitro platforms to understand disease pathology.
- Our group is also focused on developing new methods for the identification and isolation of therapeutic cell types for tissue repair, fabrication of cell and drug delivery platform and designing artificial cellular niches for stem cell homing.
Experience
- June 2003 – December 2003
Lecturer (Ad hoc)
C.S.J.M. University Kanpur, India
- March 2010 – June 2010
Guest Lecturer
C.S.J.M. University Kanpur, India
- January 2009 – January 2011
Senior Research Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
- August 2011 – April 2013
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Microbiology & Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterial, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
- May 2013 – April 2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Research in Medical Devices, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
- August 2016 – November 2016
Research Scientist
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India
- December 2016 – till date
Associate Professor
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India
Honours
- CSIR-UGC National Eligibility test (NET) fellowship. India (2003)
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) India (2003)
- Best poster presentation at international conference (BIND’06), India (2006)
- Travel grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST), India (2008)
- Travel grant from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India (2008)
- Travel grant from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India (2010)
- Selected for Young India Investigator (YIM-India) meeting held at Pune, India (2012)
- Reviewer for PLoS One (2013)
- SYIS-EU chair in TERMIS-EU conference (2014)
- Science foundation Ireland award for research work in Japan (ISCA) (2015)
- Certificate of appreciation for my published articles (2007, 2009 and 2010)
- Academic Incentive Award for publishing high-impact journal papers during PhD (2008)
Publications
- Akshay Srivastava, Gopal Agarwal. “Research Aspects and Strategies for the Development of Biosensors for Renal Disease Diagnosis” in BioSensing, Theranostics, and Medical Devices, Springer, Singapore. 2021, pp 165-183. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2782-8_7
- Gopal Agarwal, Ashish Kumar Agrawal, Anis Fatima, Akshay Srivastava. (2021). X-ray tomography analysis reveals the influence of graphene on porous morphology of collagen cryogels, Micron. 103127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2021.103127