Dr Suman Mandal is a research associate in the School of Materials Science at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS). He obtained his BSc (2013), MSc (2015) and PhD (2021) successively from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Susequently, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, USA. He is a chemist and biomaterials scientist whose research centers on the design and development of surface-engineered biomaterials and nanomaterials for targeted drug delivery and advanced biomedical applications. To date, he has been involved in a wide range of projects with strong translational relevance, spanning bioimaging, amyloidopathies, and subcellular drug delivery. At IACS, he leads the ‘‘Nanodrugs for BBB Crossing’’ project, focusing on neurodegenerative disease therapies compatible with next-generation implantable bioelectronic platforms.