Challa Kumar is currently the Group Leader of Nanofabrication at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Baton Rouge, USA. His research interests are in developing novel synthetic methods for functional nanomaterials and innovative therapeutic, diagnostic and sensory tools based on nanotechnology. He has eight years of industrial R&D experience working for Imperial Chemical Industries and United Breweries prior to joining CAMD. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, an international peer reviewed journal published by American Scientific Publishers, and the series editor for the ten-volume book series Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences (NtLS) published by Wiley-VCH. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, as a post doctoral fellow and at the Max Planck Institute for Carbon Research in Mülheim, Germany, as an invited scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in synthetic organic chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, India.

Nanotechnological Approaches in Biosensor DevelopmentDesign and Synthesis of Nanobioprobes for Fluorescent Detection of Molecular and Cellular Biological TargetsFluorescence-based Detection MethodsNanoparticles and Carbon Nanotubes in BiosensingBiosensing based on Carbon Nanotube Field-effect Transistors (NTFETs)Nanotubes, Nanowires, Nanocantilevers and Nanorods in Biosensor DevelopmentFullerene-based Electrochemical Detection MethodsCNT-based Electrochemical Detection MethodsNanoparticle Electrochemical MethodsBiomimetic Sensors in NanotechnologyDendrimers for BiosensingNanostructured Silicon for BiosensingOptical Detection MethodsMagnetic Nanomaterial-based Detection Methods