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Mr. Subodha Kumar Sahu delivered an oral presentation on “Linear and Nonlinear Photophysical Study of Bilirubin: Towards Optical Diagnostic Applications” at the Conference on Recent Advances and New Challenges in Physics-2025, held at the Department of Physics, Rural Institute of Higher Studies, Bhograi, Balasore, during 5th–6th September 2025.

Mr. Tusar Kanti Rout delivered an oral presentation on “Benzgalantamine as a Therapeutic Candidate Targeting Tau Tubulin Kinase 1 (TTBK1) in Tauopathy” at Bhogarai RANCP-2025, organized by the Government of Odisha and RIHS Bhogarai on 6th September 2025.

Our lab has been granted an Indian Patent (IN 569424) for the work titled “A nonlinear optical tool to measure hemoglobin concentration in human ABO blood types.” The patent, published on July 31, 2025, recognizes the pioneering work of our inventors Nitesh Kumar Pathak, Priyadarshi Sahoo, and Umakanta Tripathy in developing a novel optical approach for accurate hemoglobin measurement. This achievement underscores our lab’s commitment to advancing healthcare diagnostics through cutting-edge research and technology.
Ms. Smita Manjari Panda received the Best Poster Award at 47th Indian Biophysical Society Meeting (IBS2025) organized by IIT Madras with title "Unveiling a Novel Inhibitor of EGFR Tyrosine Kinase: An In-Silico study".

Our cover art that is associated with our publication "Revealing the Role of Electronic Effect to Modulate the Photophysics and Z-Scan Responses of o-Locked GFP Chromophores" has been selected as a Front Cover for issue 2 of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Mr. Nitesh Kumar Pathak defended his thesis on November 11, 2024.
Our recent publication on Malaria ( Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2024 ,Jan 18, 310, 123902, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2024.123902) featured in the Malaria World Newsletter

Mr. Nitesh Kumar Pathak got Best Oral Presentation award at ASTM-2024 organised by Department of Physics ,IIT-ISM Dhanbad, titled "A comprehensive analysis of the linear and non-linear response of serotonin by integrating experimental and in silico method.
Our scientific story published in the journal Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics is covered by Vigyan Prasar (India Science Wire) and several other Indian media.
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- Down To Earth
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- Asian Mirror
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- The Scitech Journal, Science and Technology News, “Corona fighting drug from black pepper”, Vol. 7, Issue 11, page-38, November 2020.
- New 9, Banglore.

Our research work on " Interaction of vitamin B12 with β-lactoglobulin: a computational study" accepted in "Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics" on 7th October, 2020.

Our research work on " In Silico Investigation of Spice Molecules as Potent Inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2" accepted in "Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics" on 1st September, 2020.

Our scientific story published in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience is covered by Govt. of India Press Release and several other Indian media.

Our research work on " A Novel Tool to Investigate the Early and Late Stages of α-Synuclein Aggregation" in collaboration with Prof. Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata accepted in "ACS Chemical Neuroscience" on 30th April, 2020.