Profile

Dr. Jinu George received her Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC) (NIT Calicut) and began her career as an Assistant Professor in 2010, now serving as an Associate Professor since December 2022. Her research interests span Bioorganic Chemistry, Soft Matter, Gels, Materials Science, and Cancer Biology.

Mail id: jinujacob@shcollege.ac.in

Fellowships/Training/Award/Projects

• Research Guide MGU, Kottayam (Ph D Students: Reshma Joy (Thesis submitted), Jinju John (Co-Guide) Research scholar vacancy available:1, Project students: 1)) Research lab: Bioorganic Laboratory (Room No. 148, Dept of Chemistry)
• Principal Investigator of three Major Projects awarded by DBT (2013-16)’‘Novel amphiphilic polymer drug conjugates for RNA targeting’”, KSCSTE (2017-20) “Novel formulations to enhance the efficacy of existing drugs and expand their therapeutic spectrum” , Major Research Project of SHARE (2021-2022) and a minor research project from UGC (2012-13) and  currently working on Kairali Research grant awarded by KSHEC (2022-2024) on ‘VEGF specific Liposomal siRNA carriers for tumor angiogenesis inhibition’(as co PI)
• Life Membership in Society of Biological Chemists and Indian Science Congress Association.
• Membership Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2022.
• Doctoral Progress Committee Member (St. Tresas College and Maharajas College Ernakulam (2022))
• INSA Visiting Fellowship (April-June 2019)
• JNCASR Visiting Faculty Fellowship (April-June 2017)
• UGC Travel Grant  (June 2018) Composite Materials Congress, Stockholm, Sweden
• UGC Travel Grant  (July 2015) Royal Society of Chemistry Conference at Edinburgh, UK
• Faraday Discussion, Royal Society of Chemistry (paper presentation) (2015) at IISc, Bangalore.
• Prof. Cyriac Antony Endowment Best Researcher Award (2019)
• UGC sponsored ‘Material Science Conference’ organized by U C College Aluva-Best Paper Award (March 2012)
• Coordination committee member- National facility for Marine Extracts and Genetic Resources of Bioactive molecules, CUSAT
• Avid Reader (Faculty) Award 2015 constituted by Library, Sacred Heart College, Thevara.
• Trained in India and abroad in Marriage (FamilyLife® and Alpha International), Parenting (Person to Person, Hyderabad)  and Trauma Care (Lamb int. National)
• Zone Trainer JCI International
• Hobbies include Creative writing, Painting, Badminton and Swimming.

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