Author information Challa Kumar is Group Leader Nanofabrication at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) in Baton Rouge, USA. He is the Editor of the ten-volume book series 'Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences' (Wiley-VCH) and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology (ASP). He has authored over thirty scientific publications and holds over ten patents either granted or pending. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning in Prashantinilyam, India. He was a post doctoral fellow at Max-Planck Institute for Biochemie in Munich, Germany, followed by eight years of experience working in different chemical industries in various capacities.
