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Our laboratory seeks to work at the interface of bionanotechnology, regenerative and molecular medicine and synergize the advancements in each of these distinct fields to develop a dynamic research program that tackles problems related to diagnosis/ treatment of disease and tissue regeneration.

Toward these ends, our research interests involve a multidisciplinary approach focused on the following three themes:

• Multifunctional nanobiosystems for simultaneous diagnostics and therapeutics (theragnostics).

• Multidimensional supramolecular biosystems for imaging, drug delivery and tissue regeneration.

• Nanobio-interface devices for bio-sensing and tissue regeneration.

Welcome Shruthi, our new and fresh Master's student. Wish you luck and hope you have a great time @ the Sitharaman Lab.

Congratulations Dr.Balaji Sitharaman for receiving the 2011 Coulter Translational Research Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.

Postdoc of the month has been awarded to Pramod by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. Whoohoooo!!

We raise a toast to our second student going the corporate route. Bhavna, our Master's student has decided to join Pfizer as a senior research scientist. Congratulations!

We welcome our latest lab member.Here's presenting Lidia Sobkow, who will complete the triad of post-doc's in the Sitharaman lab.

Come summer and that's when things heat up in the Sitharaman Lab with the entry of an enthusiastic team of High School students. A very warm welcome to all of you.

Congratulations to our very own Yahfi Talukdar, winner of the UREKA Researcher of the Month.

Congratulations to our graduates, the class of 2011. We wish our Master's students Ajay Sugumaran, Bhavna S Paratala and Kavya Reddy all the best.

Welcome Sayan Chowdhury to the Sitharaman Confederacy!.

Professor Sitharaman receives a research grant from the Feldstein Medical Foundation.

Professor Sitharaman has been named a recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2010.

Balaji Sitharaman, Saathyaki Raajmani, Pramod Avti, “Time-resolved red luminescence from europium catalyzed single walled carbon nanotubes”, Chem. Comm., 47, 1607-1609, 2011 (Click Here).

Meike van der Zande, Balaji Sitharaman, X. Frank Walboomers, Lesa Tran, Andor Veltien, Lon J. Wilson, J. Iñaki Álava, Arend Heerschap, Antonios G. Mikos, John A. Jansen, “In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Distribution Pattern of Gadonanotubes Released from A Degrading Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Scaffold”, Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, 17, 19-26, 2011 (Click Here).