Prof. Jayesh Bellare

Dr. Jayesh Bellare is “Institute Chair Professor” of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is an elected Fellow of several leading science and engineering academies of India, namely the National Academy of Science, India, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, and the Electron Microscopy Society of India. He was the first Head of IIT’s School of Biosciences and Bioengineering. He has more than twenty years of worldwide experience in microscopy (especially cryo-TEM), biomedical devices, materials and implants for regenerative medicine, and nanotechnology, particularly nanomedicines spanning across various medicinal systems.
Jayesh Bellare has set up a cGMP facility at IITB that has received a trial manufacturing license from DCGI/CDSCO for a bone repair scaffold. He is the lead PI for a DCGI/CDSCO approved first-in-human study at AIIMS Delhi for this regenerative scaffold, a first as an academic IIT sponsor. He has developed and transferred other technologies in the biomedical and nanotechnology fields.
Jayesh Bellare did his schooling at the Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai. He did his B.Tech.in Chemical Engineering from I.I.T. Bombay (with First rank, 1978-82, H3). He did his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A. He was a post-doctoral fellow at U-Mass, Amherst, and then at M.I.T., U.S.A. He has been visiting researcher at leading universities like the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, USA, and ICT (formerly UDCT), Mumbai. He has been honored as the “Piercy Distinguished Visiting Professor” at the University of Minnesota, USA.
Dr. Bellare’s special interests are in nanotechnology, biomedical devices, and cryo-electron microscopy. Dr. Bellare works closely with the medical fraternity and consults for industry, with whom he runs several collaborative projects. He has won several national and international awards like the Lifetime Achievement Award, Government of India Ministry of Ayush, for his work in nanomedicines, the Presidential Award of the Electron Microscopy Society of America, the ICI award for the “Most outstanding Chemical Engineer” by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineer and the NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award for application-oriented research.
Prof. Bellare is an astute technology evaluator. Therefore he is active as a consultant for companies and as a member of Government panels. He is on the research councils or committees of several leading institutions of CSIR, DBT, and DST, and he has also served on the board of directors or board of advisors for several companies.



Education: • 1990 Post Doctoral Fellow, M.I.T., Cambridge, USA. (Materials Science & Engineering)
• 1989 Post Doctoral Fellow, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. (Math & Polymer Sci & Engg)
• 1988 Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A
• 1982 B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, I.I.T., Bombay

Employment:
• IIT Bombay Institute Chair Professor: Jan-2012 to date