Aravind Kumar Rengan
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
India
Biography
One year clinical internship training in the branches of medicine, surgery, community medicine and obstetrics & gynaecology. I am a registered clinical practitioner with MCI registration no : 81367. Hands on experience in handling the following instruments : Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) Particle size analyser, Zeta potential analyser,In-vivo Multispectral imaging System, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy(FTIR), Spectrofluorimetre and spectrophotometer, Biosafety Cabinet (class -2,safety level level-2). Animal cell culture and in-vivo work. Undergone practical lab works which involved understanding the principles and demonstration of Instruments in our centre (Amrita centre for Nanosciences – ACNS ,Kochi) like Scanning electron microscopy(SEM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Western blot , HAAKE (melt processing of nanocomposites), DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry), TGA (Thermo Gravimetric Analysis), Electro-spinning apparatus, & FACS (Cell sorter).
Research Interest
Nanomedicine, Cancer Nanotechnology, Photothermal Therapy, Nanotoxicology, Triggered Drug Delivery and Theranostics.
Publications
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Rengan AK, Jagtap M, De A, Banerjee R, Srivastava R. Multifunctional gold coated thermo-sensitive liposomes for multimodal imaging and photo-thermal therapy of breast cancer cells. Nanoscale. 2014;6(2):916-23.
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Rengan AK, Bukhari AB, Pradhan A, Malhotra R, Banerjee R, Srivastava R, De A. In vivo analysis of biodegradable liposome gold nanoparticles as efficient agents for photothermal therapy of cancer. Nano letters. 2015 Jan 7;15(2):842-8.
