Panchanathan Manivasagan is a Research Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT), Gumi, South Korea. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Marine Biotechnology from the Faculty of Marine Sciences, CAS in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, India in 2010. My research program is mainly based on the synthesis of NIR-based NPs for cancer therapy.