The conference featured 81 distinguished speakers across 41 sessions, exploring a broad range of topics from cutting-edge research to practical industry applications in nanotechnology. Over 200 young attendees participated in the pre-conference tutorials.
During the two days sessions on "Nano in Healthcare", Prof. Dhirendra Katti, Director, IIT Goa spoke on 'Development of a Vaccines/Nano vaccines for Multi-drug Resistant Diarrhoea'; Dr Jiban Jyoti Panda, Associate Professor, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali spoke on 'Brain targeting Small Molecular Nanomedicines', Prof. Biman B. Mandal, Professor, IIT Guwahati shared his views on 'Nano-Composite Silk Hydrogel for Spatiotemporal, Targeted and On-Demand Controlled Release of Chemotherapeutics: An In Vivo Approach toward Suppressing Solid Tumour Growth', This session was chaired by Prof. Swaminathan, Professor & Director, SASTRA University.
Dr Praveen Kumar Vemula, Faculty, DBT INSTEM chaired a second session on Nano in Healthcare in which Prof. Neetu Singh, Professor & Head, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi shared her views on the topic '3D Liver Platforms For In-Situ Disease Staging' and in his presentation Prof. Bikramjit Basu, Professor, IISc Bangalore touched upon 'Size-tailored Gold Nanoparticles: Novel electroactuators to guide stem cell differentiation and as bacteriotoxic agents' and Prof. K. Uma Maheswari, Professor, Sastra University spoke on Smart Non-intervention for Therapy.
Dr Taslimarif Syed, CEO and Director, C- CAMP, moderated a panel discussion on 'Healthcare & Medical Electronics' with Dr Aditya Kulkarni,
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