User:Anoop Shaji

Anoop Shaji is a Final year dentistry UG Student, Century International Institute of dental science & research centre, Kasargode, Kerala, India.

-His area of interest lies in Oncology-based translational research. Till date, he has delieverd dozens of award-winning scientific presentations at various international, national scientific meets on his original novel, indigenously developed, promising concept models.

- He was the only dental student selected among 160 students all over India from all UG streams to be invited as delegate to first ever Nobel prize series in connection to vibrant Gujarat 2017 which was presided by 9 Nobel laureates and the prime minister of India for conceptually developing a potential breakthrough for brain cancer treatment.

-He was awarded All India 1st rank in scientific poster competition during the 70th Indian dental conference 2017 [Yearly IDA national conference] in Mumbai for conceptual development of one-of-a-kind novel efficacy driven microfluidic electro-magnetotaxis system which is cost-effective technique less-intensive liquid biopsy to detect cancer without microscope aid. For an overall well-rounded achievements throughout 2017 & 2018 earned him many honours including the prestigious national awards of FAMDENT(x2), International Exemplary Research and Performance Award for BEST UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT 2017 & 2018, International Dental Excellence Award 2018 for BEST UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH, Indian Dental Association's PROFILE OF THE MONTH (February 2018) & Indian Health Professional award for YOUNG DENTAL ACHIEVER OF THE YEAR of 2017. He was honored with a cover feature in a national publication along with an interview by the prestigious IDA for his achievements and contributions to the scientific fraternity in December 2018.

For a point-of-care testing, with high application potential to resource poor set-ups, a system for isolation of circulating tumor cells which are essential to diagnostics and metastasis studies was conceptualized under him. Since the circulating tumor cells are rare compared to the whole cell content of blood, the isolation process poses a challenge. There are several widespread methods of analysis and isolation of circulating tumor cells but the so-proposed; Hue coded Ligand-based Micro-fluidic-electro-magnetotaxis system, if developed cautiously & intelligently could sort out some of the major limitations in the application of circulating tumor cells in the diagnostic arena & could be a boost for less-invasive method to spot out the spreading tumor cells and give a probable diagnosis of cancerous transformation without the aid of microscope.

This innovation has harnessed quite a good attention with research internship being offered for summer session 2017 at various national-level reputed research institutes: IISc Bangalore, I.I.T Kharagpur, I.I.T(BHU) Varanasi, ACTREC Mumbai, NCBS Bangalore based on it. Subsequently, worked with Dr.Suman Chakraborty on microfluidics development for dentistry as research intern at microfluidics and microscale transport processes laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology(I.I.T)-Kharagpur, West Bengal, India [August-September 2017].

-Currently, working with Dr. Nitin Mohan, on bio-resolution and cancer as research fellow at department of biosciences and boengineering, Indian Institute of Technology(IIT)- Kanpur,UP, India {2019-}

-He is the youngest international speaker to be invited for the annually conducted International health tech innovator's conference named InnoHealth and will head-line the 2018 event scheduled for October 2018 at NCR,India.

-He is the youngest and the first Undergraduate student in the country with invitations to multiple TEDx events in 2019 as a Speaker (TEDx ABBS Bengaluru, TEDx Youth@AKA Hyderabad).

-He is the founder of a start-up venture named Dr+ Online for practicitioners focused on hassle-free networking, flexible with adaptability for case referral and discussions, locality wise expertise search and live-on patient consultation with beta version out soon. It was short- listed for a showcase at the biggest Techno-medical event of Telemedicine in India ' Telemedicon 2018”, 14th International conference of Telemedicine Society of India which is being organised in association with the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. to be held in Amaravati in November, 2018 with the Chief Minister as the Chief patron. Another bootstrapped venture called Academics Tracker (AT) focused on building integrated centralised software facility for the overall progress evaluation of student’s academic duties and also to form a digital-cloud-based record of the same is under progress.

- He was the Co-Chief Organiser, Thiruvanathapuram- Life In Space workshop by Indian Astrobiology Research Centre which was the first-ever astrobiology workshop in the district {Nov 2018}

-A cancer research team and a foundation was established under his mentorship with few fellow motivated medical students by the name of CAResearchers7-UG Cancer Research Team/Foundation with motives for cancer research, cancer awareness and patient supporting. Research section, CARes7 biosciences, specializes in optogenetics & microfluidics new-gen solutions in cancer theranostics domain.