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T. S. Sampath Kumar Ph.D.

Dr. T.S. Sampath Kumar is an associate professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India, and the head of the Medical Materials Laboratory. He has been recently elected as the Fellow of the International Medical Sciences Academy. His research interests are on nanobioceramics, functionally graded biomaterials, novel ceramic coatings and ceramic based drug delivery systems. He is currently the Vice President of the Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs-India for 2008-2010. He is the associate editor of the SBAOI journal of "Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs-India" during 2002-2005, and continues to be on its editorial board since 1991. He has published 3 issues of this journal and an issue of the "Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals" journal as a guest editor. His research guidance is evident from many best presentation awards including best thesis award of IITM to his research students. He has over 100 papers published in journals with high impact factors and has three Indian patents.

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