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Prof. Kavi Devraj

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences

Microfluidic Devices, CNS Drug Delivery, BBB Targeted Therapeutics, Cancers), CNS Diseases (Stroke, Transport Mechanisms and Kinetics, Neurovascular Unit (NVU), AD, Infections, Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering - Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB)
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Awards and Honors

  • Award for being consistently meritorious in high school. 1990, St. Gabriel’s High School, Warangal, India
  • Top rank (99 percentile - 192 rank) in EAMCET - statewide engineering common entrance test, AP, India, 1996, AP State Entrance Board, for entrance to premier engineering colleges
  • Obtained a high score (1320/1600) in quantitative and analytical sections in paper version GRE, 1998, Educational Testing Service ETS, USA
  • Merit-based tuition scholarship for masters in biomedical engineering, WPI, USA, 2001
  • Mentor-based fellowship, American Diabetes Association, USA, 2002
  • Merit-based doctoral fellowship at Penn State University, National Institutes of Health NIH, USA, 2002.
  • COSAT summer fellowship, Neutrogena, Johnson and Johnson Inc, USA, 2003
  • Teaching with technology certificate, the graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2008
  • Graduate school teaching certificate, the graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, 2008
  • Global Centers of Excellence GCOE Fellowship, Osaka University, Japan, 2010
  • Goethe University Clinic Foundation Award, Goethe University Medical School, Germany, 2011
  • Chair, Gordon Research Seminars (GRS), Barriers of the CNS, Gordon Research Conferences (GRC), USA, 2012
  • Editorial board member for the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (JCBFM), 2014
  • Shortlisted for Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Science Young Faculty, Max Planck Institute for Heart & Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany, 2015
  • Sphingonet Young Investigator Award, Sphingonet Consortium, Leducq Foundation, USA, 2016
  • Senior author paper selected for cover page with commentary, Journal of Neurochemistry, USA, 2018
  • The Mildred-Scheel-Nachwuchszentrum young faculty nomination, The Mildred - Scheel- Nachwuchszentrum, Frankfurt, Germany, 2019
  • Chosen as PI for SFB DFG consortium grant application, Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CEPTER), Frankfurt, Germany 2022