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Happy to accept the IIT Delhi Young Faculty Research Award 2025 on the institute’s 68th Foundation Day from
Prof. Rangan Banerjee, Director, IIT Delhi.

This award reflects the research excellence, resilience, and teamwork of my students, staff, and collaborators. Their work strengthens India’s scientific innovation on a global stage, and I am proud of it. Kudos to The Gut Engineering Lab IIT DELHI🚀
Congratulations to our amazing students!
(L to R):  Debajit Dhar (PhD student), 1st Prize (put of 72 entries) in Poster Presentation at the National Conference on Microbiome & the Biotic Family: R & D leading to Clinical & Commercial Implications (2025),Dehradun.
Venkat Sai Reddy (M.Tech student) awarded Promising Innovators in Nutrition Innovation at the INFUSE Summit, NIN, Hyderabad.
A Small Pill-Like Ingestible Microdevice for Site-Specific Microbiome Sampling in the Upper GI Tract
- Interview by Times of India
- Interview by Dainik Jagaran
- Interview by Shaastra magazine
- Television interview by DD Doordarshan
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Self-polymerizing microsystems for sampling of gut microbiota and biomarkers
This study lays a strong foundation for the development of untethered, non-invasive microsampling technologies in the gut and advances our understanding of host–gut microbiome interactions in the near future.
- ACS press release (Link)
- Interview by Nutrition Insight (Link)
- Covered by eight popular science services (Link)
- Scientists use ingestible device to take snapshot of gut
TRAP micro-robots for cellular therapy
Real-time hydrogel production from a self-propelled microbot with high degree of biocompatability.
Highlighted as front cover in Advanced Materials.

- See related interview in Sciencenews.dk describing future prospects of this technology.
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Micromotors for Environmental and Biomedical applications
Making Micromotors Biocompatible,  The Scientist.
Tiny tubes do speedy cleanup, Chemistry Views.
Nanomotors Have Places To Go,  American Chemical Society.