Dr. Sudarshan Kini is currently working as a Associate Professor at Nitte University Centre for Science Education and Research, Nitte (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, India. In 2015, Dr. Kini obtained his PhD in Nanomedicine for anticancer applications from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at Manipal University, India. His current research areas are the fabrication of polymeric hydrogel-based scaffolds for biomedical applications, including 3D models of cancer and bacterial biofilms, and also working on the development of quantum dot-based fluorescent nanosensors.