Bio-Physio Sensors
Medical devices for disease diagnostics and therapeutics — affordable to the mass population, easy to use and portable, so they work in remote or resource-limited settings.
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
Sensing the
invisible —
engineering the cure.
At the Laboratory of Bio-Physio Sensors & Nanobioengineering we build reliable, elementary solutions to hard biological detection problems — for clinical & healthcare, the drug & chemical industry, and the environment. Our work spans bioanalytical systems, microfluidics, nanobioengineering and material engineering.
217Journal articles
27Patents filed & granted
19Books edited
12,265+Citations
Meet the mentor
A lab built on curiosity and clinical usefulness.
Dr. Chandra is Coordinator and Associate Professor at the School of Biochemical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He earned his Ph.D. at Pusan National University, South Korea, and completed post-doctoral training at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology. With over 200 research articles and 19 edited books, his interdisciplinary work spans nanobiotechnology, nanobiosensors, lab-on-chip systems and nanomedicine. His cancer-detection systems have been highlighted by the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World and Global Medical Discovery, Canada.
National award
Dr. Pranjal Chandra and Mr. Supratim Mahapatra received the Eat Right Research Award 2022 on World Food Safety Day for a nano-engineered portable sensing device — presented by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya.
What we do
Three pillars, one goal:
diagnostics that reach everyone.
Interdisciplinary work across sensing technology, nano-biotechnology and material science — aimed squarely at affordable, portable, easy-to-use devices for resource-limited settings.
Point-of-Care Techniques
Lateral-flow immunoassays and portable electronics for signal processing and analysis — including sensor-based colorimeters and fluorimeters developed in-house.
Nanobiotechnology
Synthesis of nanoparticles including semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots). Biofunctionalisation improves their utility in building next-generation biosensors.
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