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Sundar Prasanth Authimoolam holds a BTech in Chemical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India, and MS, PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States. His doctoral work was on developing synthetic mucin mimics from drug encapsulated polymeric nanostructures. He also holds an industrial experience as Chemical Process Engineer in Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Mumbai, India. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in NewYork University in Abu Dhabi. In 2018, he joined Paula Hammond’s Group at SMART, and works in a collaborative project between the Hammond Labs based at SMART and MIT, the MBE Chan Lab based at NTU, and investigators at SCELSE and NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

Dr Sundar’s research at AMR-IRG involves development of drug delivery systems such as polymeric nano/microcarriers, hydrogels, and thin film coatings via Layer-by-layer self-assembling approaches in forming functional materials for antimicrobial resistance.