About the
Principal Investigator

Indrajit Srivastava is a tenure-track assistant professor at Texas Tech University in the Mechanical Engineering department at Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering. Professor Srivastava’s research focuses on leveraging the unique biomimetic characteristics of natural materials and nanoengineering design principles to make nanoparticles for early detection, diagnosis/prognosis, and image-guided therapeutic interventions of diseases like cancer, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, and bacterial and viral pathogenesis. His research works have been published in high-impact scientific journals (ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, Nature Communication, PNAS, etc.) and have been recognized with several academic awards and honors. Professor Srivastava is passionate about mentoring and has shown his strong commitment to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM education through his outreach activities. Before joining Texas Tech, Professor Srivastava was a postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Prof. Shuming Nie and Prof. Viktor Gruev (2020-2023) at the Cancer Center of Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received his M.S. (2017) and Ph.D. (2020) degrees from UIUC under the mentorship of Prof. Dipanjan Pan and was awarded the Bioengineering Teaching Excellence Award, WYSE Outstanding Mentorship Award, and Carbon Journal Dissertation Prize. He received his B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science (2015) from India at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology (IIEST), Shibpur. In his spare time, he likes watching a wide array of television series ranging from sci-fi (Dark, Stranger Things) to historical romance fiction (Bridgerton). Indrajit loves playing and watching soccer and is a big fan of Arsenal Football Club.

Curriculum Vitae, NIH Biosketch

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS.
2024 - Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Texas Tech University
2023 - ACS Leadership in Mentoring Award, American Chemical Society
2021, 2022 - Baxter Young Investigator Award, Baxter International Foundation
2021 - BMES UNITE Future Faculty Scholar, Biomedical Engineering Society
2021 - Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (Declined)
2021 - Outstanding Thesis in Carbon Science & Technology, Carbon Journal - Elsevier
2021 - ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar, American Chemical Society
2020 - BMES Career Development Award, Biomedical Engineering Society
2019 - Bioengineering Teaching Excellence Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2013 - Prof. A.K.Seal Undergraduate Fellowship, IIEST Shibpur