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Praveena Velpurisiva Ph.D.

Praveena Velpurisiva Ph.D.

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact Information

[email protected]
(415) 502-7921
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Education

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering - University of Massachusetts, Lowell

M.S. in Biological Sciences - University of Massachusetts, Lowell

B.Tech in Industrial Biotechnology - SASTRA University, India

Research Interests

  • Biomarker Discovery
  • Metabolomics
  • Proteomics
  • Transcriptomics
  • Transplant Immunology

Biography

Praveena is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof.Minnie Sarwal's lab in the Department of Surgery. Her doctoral thesis was on engineering nanomedicines with a combinatorial approach to combat Glioblastoma Multiforme. In this study, she used two small molecules, a polo like kinase inhibitor and a tyrosine kinase inhibitor and demonstrated synergistic cytotoxic killing in glioma cells.

Research Overview

Praveena is interested in exploring different pathological pathways associated with the kidney function. She would like to identify biomarkers using various computational tools and Omics approaches for earlier detection of the disease.

Publications

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  1. Velpurisiva P, Rai P. Synergistic Action of Gefitinib and GSK41364A Simultaneously Loaded in Ratiometrically-Engineered Polymeric Nanoparticles for Glioblastoma Multiforme. J Clin Med. 2019 Mar 15; 8(3). View in PubMed
  2. Velpurisiva P, Piel BP, Lepine J, Rai P. GSK461364A, a Polo-Like Kinase-1 Inhibitor Encapsulated in Polymeric Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). Bioengineering (Basel). 2018 Oct 09; 5(4). View in PubMed
  3. Kydd J, Jadia R, Velpurisiva P, Gad A, Paliwal S, Rai P. Targeting Strategies for the Combination Treatment of Cancer Using Drug Delivery Systems. Pharmaceutics. 2017 Oct 14; 9(4). View in PubMed
  4. Velpurisiva P, Gad A, Piel B, Jadia R, Rai P. Nanoparticle Design Strategies for Effective Cancer Immunotherapy. J Biomed (Syd). 2017; 2(2):64-77. View in PubMed

Posters & Oral Presentations

  1. 90th ACS Colloid &Surface Science Symposium - Harvard University, MA 2016
  2. UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science - UMass Medical School 2016,2017
  3. Sukant Tripathy Symposium - University of Massachusetts Lowell 2016,2017,2018

Books Chapters & Edited Books

  1. Introduction: Nanotheranostics for Cancer Applications
  2. Velpurisiva P., Kydd J.L., Jadia R., Morris S.A., Rai P. (2019) Introduction. In: Rai P., Morris S. (eds) Nanotheranostics for Cancer Applications. Bioanalysis (Advanced Materials, Methods, and Devices), vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01775-0_1
  3. Concluding Remarks and the Future of Nanotheranostics
  4. Kydd J.L., Velpurisiva P., Morris S.A., Rai P. (2019) Concluding Remarks and the Future of Nanotheranostics. In: Rai P., Morris S. (eds) Nanotheranostics for Cancer Applications. Bioanalysis (Advanced Materials, Methods, and Devices), vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01775-0_18

 

 
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