Dr. Patel is a DST INSPIRE Faculty member, whose research involves Nanotechnology development of soy isoflavones as anti-cancer therapeutics. Dr. Patel joined the University of Waterloo and Mediphage lab as a visiting scientist in May 2016 to undertake short-term training on phage display production, purification and iPHAGES technology to complement his current DST research by implementing bacteriophage-derived vectors in the treatment of cancer.