Bio-Inspired Bioengineering Lab
Dr. Yogendra Pratap Singh
Assistant Professor
School of Healthcare Science and Engineering (SHINE) Office: MGR Block - 231F
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore - 632 014, Tamil Nadu, India
Ph.D. - 2021
Tissue Engineering
IIT Guwahati
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M.Sc. - 2013
Biotechnology
Amity University Noida
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B.Sc. - 2011
Zoology
Madras Christian College, Chennai
Post Doctoral Experience
Pennsylvania State University – Feb 2022 to Dec 2024
Editorial Experience
• Early Career Editorial Board Member – Bioactive Materials (KeAi Publishing, IF-18.9)
• Youth Editorial Board Member – International Journal of Bioprinting
• Review Editor in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
• Review Editor in Biomedical Nanotechnology for Frontiers in Nanotechnology
• Guest editor for the Special Collection “Recent Advances in 3D Bioprinting and Tissue Biofabrication” in Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology (SAGE Publication)
• Journal Reviewer for 15+ peer-review journals including Biomaterials (Elsevier), Acta Biomaterialia (Elsevier), Bioactive Materials (KeAi), Biofabrication (IOP), Bioengineering & Translational Medicine (AIChE), PLoS One, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, ACS Omega, Biomedical Materials (IOP), Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, and several MDPI journals.
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Bioinspired Bioengineering
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Immunomodulatory Biomaterials
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3D Bioprinting
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3D in vitro disease models
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Biomedical Devices
3D Bioprinted Osteochondral In-Vitro Osteoarthritis Model Construct and Applications Thereof.
• Patent Published Application No.: 202131027358
Development of Silk Based Bioinks for 3D Printing and Uses Thereof
• Patent Granted Application No.: 415089
1. Selected for the Biomimicry Institute's (Montana, USA) Launchpad program 2023, designed to help scientists, inventors, and innovators bring their nature-inspired ideas into reality.
2. Awarded IIT Guwahati Best PhD Thesis Award 2022 (BSBE) in the 24th Convocation.
3. Awarded Newton Bhabha Ph.D. Placement Programme 2017-18 by DBT, Government of India and British Council, UK for research hosted by The University of Sheffield, UK.
4. Awarded Raman-Charpak Fellowship 2017-18 by DST, Government of India and SST, French Embassy in India, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Development, Government of France (implemented by IFCPAR/CEFIPRA) hosted by IRMB, INSERM U1183, Montpellier, France.
5. Best poster award at the International Conference on Biomaterials, Biodiagnostics, Tissue Engineering, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine (BiTERM 2016), IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India.
6. Team (Silk-Bots) presented work on “3D Bioprinting” and was awarded “Best project from IIT Guwahati” in TechExpo 2018 (Techniche 2018).
7. Team (Silk-Bioengineers) presented work on “Tissue Engineering of Organs” and was awarded 2nd position in the senior category in Techexpo 2017 (Techniche 2017) at IIT Guwahati.
8. Team awarded 2nd position in the Technology Incubation Competition at IIT Guwahati-Technology Incubation Centre (IITG-TIC 2016) for silk-based affordable tissue grafts and healthcare products.
9. GATE 2014 Qualified, Score: 407, All India Rank: 1073
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Tissue Engineering Therapies for Ocular Regeneration.
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CRC Press - 2016
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Tissue-derived decellularized extracellular matrices towards cartilage repair and regeneration.
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Elsevier - 2020
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State-of-the-art strategies and future interventions in bone and cartilage repair for personalized regenerative therapy.
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Academic Press - 2021
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Silk Hydrogel Based Delivery of Cell and Bioactive Molecules for Osteochondral Tissue Engineering Applications.
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Elsevier - 2023
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