Affiliation: Central University of Rajasthan, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences

Dr. Surendra Nimesh obtained his MSc degree in Biomedical Science and PhD degree in Nanotechnology from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi and CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India. He is presently working as UGC Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, at Central University of Rajasthan, India. He has authored several research and review articles in international peer reviewed journals, as well as book chapters and five books. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at Ecole Polyetchnique of Montreal, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, McGill University, and Visiting Fellow at Health Canada from 2007- 2013. His area of interest is nanotechnology for drug, gene, and siRNA delivery for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases and breast cancer. He is currently investigating the antimicrobial and antibiofilm potential of biosynthesized silver nanoparticles using various plant extracts. One of the domains that he is working in is to employ silver nanoparticles in wound healing studies in in vivo models.