Ongoing Sponsored R&D Projects:
1. Indigenous development of low-cost optical imaging system for early detection of Retinoblastoma in child, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India,File Number: 2022-1566, Duration: 05/02/2023-04/02/2026, Cost: 30.81 lacs, Role: PI
2. Indigenous development of novel biomaterial for laser tissue soldering process and real-time monitoring with optical coherence tomography/angiography system, DST-SERB, Core Research Grant (CRG), File Number: CRG/2022/001404, Duration: 02/02/2023-01/02/2026, Cost: 31.46 lacs, Role: PI
3. Indigenous development of low-cost AI enabled portable multispectral camera system for rapid early detection of plant diseases and other stress based morphological changes, "Development of Data Science Methods for Cyber Physical system" sponsored by IDEAS, Technology Innovation Hub @ Indian Statistical Institute, Duration: 01/10/2022-30/09/2023; Cost: 5.21 lacs; Role: PI
4. Indigenous development of low-cost, portable, high-speed confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (cSLO) system for fluorescence angiographic and photoreceptors imaging of human eye (submission id 2020-0540) Indian council of Medical research (ICMR), ICMR-EMR (2020-0540-ITR): Duration: 10/07/2020-09/07/2023; Cost: 40.10 lacs; Role: PI
5. Development of portable Biometric identification system via Retinal scanning with liveness using Fundus Camera and Optical Angiography (Ref. no. No. LSRB/01/15001/M/LSRB-379/SH&DD/2020, Dated; 03.09.2020; The Life Sciences Research Board (LSRB) of Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO); Duration: 10/09/2020-09/09/2023; Cost: 37.66 lacs; Role: PI
Completed Sponsored R&D Projects:
6. Towards development of a novel high resolution and high contrast in-vivo imaging technique based on Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography (SSOCT) and unique Upconversion Nanoparticles (UCNPs) DST-SERB Govt. of India, (EMR/2015/001757) Duration: 25/03/2017-25/03/2020; Cost: 30.42 lacs; Role: PI
7. To Study the Structure and Blood Flow of Chorioretinal Complex in Human Using Optical Coherence Angiography Indian council of Medical research (ICMR), ICMR-EMR (5/20/21 (Bio)/2014-ITR-I); Duration: 05/04/2017-04/05/2020; Cost: 37.06 lacs; Role: PI
8. Development of novel antileishmanial agents through pharmacoinformatics based approach Indian council of Medical research (ICMR)BIC/11(34)/2012: Duration: 2012-03-20- 2015-08-19 Cost: 7.46 lacs Role: PI
9. Discovery, annotation, validation and characterization of SNPs in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and haplotype structure determination using Next-Generation Sequencing Data Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, File No.- BT/PR3925/BID/7/384/2011; Duration: 01.06.2012- 31.08.2015 Cost: 49.80 lacs Role: Co-PI
10. Indigenous development of 1µm swept source optical coherence tomography (SSOCT) setup for noninvasive imaging of posterior segment of animal eye DST, Govt. of India, IDP/MED/10/2010; Duration: 11/11/2010 - 11/14/2014; Cost: 25.06 lacs Role: PI
11. Noncontact and Noninvasive Imaging of Posterior Segment of Human Eye with High Resolution Scattering Optical Coherence Angiography (s-OCA) System DBT, Govt. of India, Code: BT/PR3309/MED/32/185/2011 12/10/2012; Duration: 15/09/2015 -2018 Cost: 30.46 lacs Role: PI
12. Development of Next Generation High Speed Data Acquisition and Processing System for Ophthalmic Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography UGC, Govt. of India, MRP-MAJOR-INST-2013-23798; Duration: 01-04-2015-31-03-2018 Cost: 14.58 lacs Role: PI
13. Establishment of SubDIC BTISNet Center at BIT-Mesra, DBT, Govt. of India, BT/BI/04/065/04 dated 18. 02. 2005, Duration 2005 – 2019, Cost: 96.83 lacs, Role: Co-PI