Dr. Binulal Nelson Sathy, an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine(ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has been awarded the prestigious Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, for the year 2016-2017.

This fellowship governed by the DBT, is an initiative to lure indian scientists back to the country by providing an attractive avenue to pursue R&D in Indian institutions. To reverse brain drain, the DBT brings around 50 such brilliant scientific brains back to the country each year. The fellowship tenure is for a period of 5 years, entitling the awardee to a very attractive monthly fellowship, additional HRA, and consolidated research/ contingency grant of Rs. 10.00 lakhs for the first year, Rs. 7.50 lakhs for second year and Rs. 5.00 lakhs for third, fourth and fifth year. 

Dr. Sathy is an Amrita alumnus with Ph. D. in Bio-engineering (2013) from the Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine (ACNSMM), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. After one year of post-doctoral work at ACNSMM, he joined as a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (2014-2017). Dr. Sathy also spent 6 months at the Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, USA, with professor Antonios G. Mikos. Dr. Sathy’s research interest is on understanding the fundamentals of immunomodulatory and regenerative properties of adult stem cells and bioengineered matrices for the functional tissue regeneration with a focus towards translational product development.