Dr. Amit Asthana is working as Associate Professor and Head, Department of Medical Devices, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education And Research (NIPER), Hyderabad, an autonomous institute of national importance working under the aegis of the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Government of India, New Delhi. Before joining NIPER, he worked as Senior Principal Scientist, Principal, and Ramalingaswami fellow at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB), Hyderabad, India, for ~10 years. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Barkatullah University, India, while working at the Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (CSIR-AMPRI). Dr. Asthana has served as Associate Dean (Research) and as in-charge registrar of NIPER, Hyderabad also. Dr. Asthana has more than 24 years of post-doctoral experience in biomaterials, micro/nanotechnology, microfluidics device designing, fabrication and characterization, hot embossing, cleanroom operations, and paper microfluidic. He has worked at Institutes and Universities of International fame, such as the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Institute Curie, France; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Chungnam National University, South Korea; and the University of Queensland, Australia. Dr. Asthana is a Fellow of the Telangana Academy of Science. He is the recipient of many fellowships, including SRF (CSIR, India), Curie Fellowship (France), & Brainpool Fellowship (KRF, South Korea), and Ramalingaswami Return Fellowship (DBT, India). Dr. Asthana has many publications in journals of international repute and international conferences, apart from 10 Indian and PCT patents. His research interests include biomaterials, drug delivery, application of micro/nanofabrication, micro/nanofluidics, digital microfluidics, and a wide range of microfluidic tools for biological studies, including diagnostic using paper microfluidics apart from non-conventional ways of fabricating microfluidic devices. Recently, Dr. Asthana received two Industrial projects, one from Innvolution Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, and one from BabyCue Pvt. Ltd., Orissa, apart from one ICMR-funded project on early detection of Sepsis. Dr. Asthana is associated with many start-ups working on affordable diagnostic and medical device companies in India as a scientific advisor, such as FastSense Diagnostics (Pune, India) and Microfluidic Paper Medical Devices Pvt. Ltd (Hyderabad, India), BabyCue Pvt. Ltd. (Orissa, India), Technical Advisor and Stockholder in Axio Biosolutions, Pvt. Ltd (Bangalore, India).