Dr. Agnishwar Girigoswami has been a Professor at the Chettinad Academy of Research and Education (CARE) since 2010. Dr. Girigoswami received his doctoral degree from the University of Kalyani in Chemistry in 2004 after completing an M.Sc. in Biochemistry. He joined the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) in 2006 as a postdoctoral researcher to work on zip-code microarray technology for the diagnosis of human genetic mutations. At the same time, he started to explore nanotechnology to combine with DNA engineering. His current research projects focus on developing nanoparticle-based theranostic tools, targeted drug delivery systems, photodynamic therapy, and bio-molecular spectroscopy.