Dr. Antony V Samrot is a Senior
Lecturer, Program Coordinator and Research Manager, School of Bioscience,
Faculty of Medicine, Bioscience and Nursing, MAHSA University, Malaysia. He has
more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in different
universities. His area of expertise is Nanobiotechnology and has research
experience on nanoparticles-based drug delivery, nanotoxicology, nanomaterials
– mediated heavy metal and dye removal.
Dr. Samrot did his
undergraduate B.Sc degree at Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli,
India and Secured First Class. He
Pursued his M.Sc. -
Microbiology at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India and Secured
first class. He did his M. Phil in Microbial Technology and Secured First Class.
He did his PhD in Microbiology at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli,
India and his research topic was “Cigarette smoke induced modulation in mice
and effect of marine cyanobacteria on induced modulation”. Where, set of
animals models were exposed to cigarette smoke/Hydrazine (a known carcinogen
derived from cigarette smoke). Pathological changes induced by cigarette smoke
and hydrazine were studied on mice. Cigarette smoke/ Hydrazine exposed animals
were treated with Oscillatoria willei - a marine cyanobacterium extract.
It was found that Oscillatoria willei has the potency to cure the ill
effects caused by cigarette smoke and hydrazine. Later, he continued his M.
Tech in Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology and secured First class
with distinction.
His undergraduate and
postgraduate research works were focused on the field of Microbiology and he
worked as a junior research fellow in the Department of Ocean Development from the
year 2003- 2005 and his work was based on “Drugs from Ocean” funded project
entitled “Screening Marine Cyanobacteria for Anti-Tumor Activity with a View to Develop Potential Anticancer Drug”. Later due to his quest for knowledge,
curiosity in learning and critical thinking he developed his interest in the
field of nanotechnology and further continued his research work in
nanotechnology. As a professional with a strong academic background, he has a
vast knowledge in Project Management, Quality Initiatives, Technology, Critical
Thinking, Troubleshooting, Problem Analysis and Resolution. He possesses strong leadership traits
and the ability to coordinate and lead a team under difficult circumstances, always creating a friendly work environment, thus enhancing operational efficiency and
optimizing resource utilization.
He conducted several national
and international workshops, conference and webinars and has also been to
several national and international conference as a resource person and enriched
a wide range of audience including students and faculty members with insightful
and well explanatory talks. He has attended around 30 odd national conference, 10 plus international conference, presented 30 over papers and posters, of which he had won best
paper and poster awards as well.
He received a membership title
“MABMS” Award given by the Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists during “XXVI
Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Bio Medical Scientists” held at
Science City Auditorium, Kolkata conducted by Calcutta University, Kolkata from
25th to 27th November 2005 and “Agathiar award” in “XXVII Annual Conference of
the Indian Association of Bio Medical Scientists” held at TGBRI,
Trivanananthapuram from 25th to 27th November 2006. He also received the YOUNG SCIENTIST award in NUS-VIT
symposium on “Theranostics in Health and Diseases” conducted by VIT, Vellore in
association with NUS, Singapore on 21st and 22nd July, 2017. He received the SRISTI –
GANDHIAN YOUNG TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION (GYTI) AWARD in the category of
Technological Innovation for guiding the project entitled “Dual Action of
SPIONs in effective removal of heavy metals and mosquito larvae from water”
from SRISTI, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi in July 2019.
He published around 140 +
articles in well esteemed National and International journals like Elsevier,
Springer, Frontiers, MDPI etc and his cumulative impact factor is above 140 +.
He has also published 2 Books , 7 Book chapters and 5 articles in Proceedings. He
has acted as peer reviewer for many high impact journals. He also submitted more
than 20 16SrRNA sequences of several new strain of bacteria in GENBANK.
He has guided 6 M.Phil, 8
M.Sc, 1 M.Tech, 21 B.Tech projects and 10 B.Sc Biomedical sciences students. Graduated
two Ph.D. Students, currently guiding two more Ph.D., students. As a researcher he
visited Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia for 4 months. Due to his extensive
thinking and intellectual ideas, he received funds from Technology Business
Incubator (TBI) for one of his researches works developing filter using SPIONs
for water treatment. He also received another funding from MAHSA University for
the project entitled “Dual action of surface engineered SPIONs in effective
removal of heavy metals and mosquito larvae from water”. He has an Australian
patent for the work “Synthesis of gold nanoparticles using Hylecereus
lindatus peel extract” and 3 Australian patents are under processing.
His future research works is
based on developing an alternative for collagen treatment using the animal wastes.
Not only that, he is keen to use waste derived materials for medical and
environmental applications. His future researches also contain biopolymer-based
drug delivery, Nanotoxicology, Environmental remediation and Cancer therapy
using stem cells.
MAHSA University's MSc and PhD by Research programme enables students to embark on research topics such as Biological Science, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Biomaterial Science, Tissue Engineering, Clinical, Dentistry, Drug Discovery, and Social Medicine, among others that relate to Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, and Health Science.
More Info: https://mahsa.edu.my/pdf/MAHSA_MSc_PhD_Research.pdf
CONTACT DETAILS:
Dr Antony V Samrot, PhD,
Senior Lecturer, Program coordinator and Research Manager
School of Bioscience
Faculty of Medicine, Bioscience & Nursing
MAHSA University
E. mail: antony.s@mahsa.edu.my