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PROFESSOR & DEAN OF RESEARCH
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Prof. Praveen Kumar Vemula is Professor and Dean of Research at the Institute for
Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore. He obtained PhD from IISc. Subsequently he did postdoctoral research at City College of New York. Subsequently, he has worked as Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurial Postdoc Fellow at Harvard Medical School. His expertise is developing chemical technologies for medical applications. His work spans the fields of chemical biology, in which he is focused on biomaterials, drug discovery, drug delivery, and medical devices.

Vemula has published ~100 peer-reviewed papers, has given >300 national and international invited lectures including 3 TEDx talks, and has >30 issued or pending national/international patents, which have been licensed to multiple biotech companies. Several technologies developed in his lab have formed the foundation for multiple products on the market, and currently under development.

Based on his technologies he has formed 8 startup companies. Thus far, >25 products that are developed based on his technologies are in the market worldwide and have impacted millions of people.

His work has been recognized by:

• CRSI-Bronze Medal 2025 from Chemical Research Society of India
• Institute of Chemical Technology-Royal Society of Chemistry (ICT-RSC) Innovation Award 2024
• National Biotechnology Innovation Award-2023
• DBT-Product, Process, Technology Development and Commercialization Award 2020
• GYTI-SRISTI-BIRAC Award-2019