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He is the founder of the SBAOI, The Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, India (STERMI),initiated series of Indo-Australian conferences since 2005 and also Industry-Institute partnership cell under AICTE New Delhi.Dr. Sharma has published over 400 research papers including book chapters and has processed 40 patents including in Canada, European Union, Japan and USA. He has edited several special issues of International Journals; edited a book with Dr. Michael Szycher on Blood Compatible Materials and Devices with Technomic Publishing Company ‰ÛÒ 1991, Biointegration of Medical Implant Materials: Science and Design with CRC Press/Woodhead Publishing Limited – 2010, coauthored Update on Chitosan: A Non-Viral Gene Delivery Vector with Dr. Viola B Morris – Smithers Rapra 2012,Oral Delivery of Insulin with Dr. Sonia TA – Woodhead Publishing 2014 and coauthored another book on Advances in wound Healing Materials :Science jand Skin Engineering with Willi Paul – Smithers Rapra 2015.He is also the Founder editor of Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs (international journal published by SBAOI) and Hon. Member / member of Editorial board of various international Journals.He has been Ambassador, member International Advisory Board and also organized and chaired symposia in the 7th WBC at Sydney, Australia, 8th WBC at Amsterdam,the Netherlands,9th WBC at Chengdu China and TERMIS AP 2013 Annual Conference (Oct 23-26, 2013) held at Wuzhen, China.His basic activities relate understanding of blood/tissue – material interactions at the interface. In case of chitosan, an encouraging wound healing material, his group demonstrated during 1990s that its haemostatic potential is independent of classical coagulation cascade and appears to be an interaction between the cell membrane of erythrocytes and chitosan.