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Contact
Balaji Sitharaman
Tel.: 631.632-1810
Fax.: 631.632-8577
Email:
115 Bioengineering,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook,
NY 11794-5281
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LAB NEWS
- Welcome to the latest Master's student - Shruti Kanakia. She joins us from Maryland. Luck and good wishes for your work towards your PhD. Sep 2011
- We raise a toast to Dr.Balaji Sitharaman for being named as recipient of the 2011 Coulter Translational Research Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation. Aug 2011
- Congratulations Pramod on being selected as Postdoc of the Month by the Office of Post Doctoral Affairs. To read more about Pramod and his achievements click here.Aug 2011
- Bravo!! Pramod Avti, Yahfi Talukdar and Kenneth Schaefer for the publication of your manuscript titled A Nanoparticle-Enhanced Photoacoustic Stimulus for Bone Tissue Engineering”. Go to the Publication page for links to the journal. July 2011.
- Our hearty congratulations go out to Pramod for his accepted manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2010, 57, 1831-1834. Way to go!!
- Well done Saatyaki and Pramod for your accepted manuscript in Chem. Comm., 47, 1607-1609, 2011.
- Holla!! The Sitharaman Lab is pleased to welcome Lidia Sobkow, the third postdoctoral research fellow to join the lab.July,2011
- We welcome our team of High School Students joining the Sitharaman Lab for a Summer of Science,July 2011. Our team of students includes:
- Momin Hamid - Freeport High School
- Prady Manepalli - Smithtown High School West
- Kayla Neville - Commack High School (Students and Scientists Environmental Research Scholarship Program-Sponsored by Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition/Prevention is the Cure)
- Sonia Sethi - Plainview Old Bethpage JFK high school
- Pushpinder Uppal - Jericho High School (will soon join Cornell University)
- John Yang - William A.Shine, Great Neck High School (Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition - Students and Scientists Breast Cancer/Environmental Research Program)
- Kevin Zhang - Hatboro-Horsham High School
(Simon's fellow)
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Sayan Chowdhury joins the Sitharaman Lab as a Graduate fellow. Welcome! Sayan is a native of the Biochemistry Department, particularly Molecular & Cellular Biology, and is the first to initiate contact with the Bioengineering World. June 2011
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Congratulations Yahfi, for winning the prestigious title of UREKA Researcher of the Month. Read all about his exciting journey here.June 2011
- Hurray! Professor Sitharaman has been named recipient of the Feldstein Medical Foundation Award, June 2011.
- Cheers to our 2011 Master's students who did the Sitharaman Lab proud. We wish Ajay Sugumaran, Bhavana S Paratala and Kavya Reddy good luck in their future endevours. May 2011
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Professor
Sitharaman has been named a recipient of the
NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2010.
This prestigious award is a key component of the NIH Roadmap for medical
research and supports exceptionally creative
early-career
scientists who take highly innovative approaches to major challenges in
biomedical research, Oct 2010.
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A recent abstract submitted by Pramod for a symposium at the
Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII), the Mount Sinai
School of Medicine got selected as the best abstract in the nanomedicine
category. Pramod receives an award and will make a podium presentation.
Congratulations! May 2010.
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Jessica Hsu, our high school Simon's fellow recently received several awards at the Bay Area regional science fair Synopsys for her summer project. She was awarded four special awards:
1st place in the Senior Division of selected projects that "utilize science with ingenuity, creativity, and diligent effort" awarded by the American Vacuum Society (AVS), Electronic Materials Symposium Scholarship Award, Honorable Mention Award by the United States Army, Honorable Mention Award "recognizing excellence in science project involving materials technology" by the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (SAMPE). In addition, She was also awarded the 1st place award for the technical paper category. She will be starting her undergraduate studies this fall at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Congratulations to Jessica on her outstanding acheivements,
April 2010.
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Undergraduate Students Antonio Wong and Philipary
Thuyamany join our group,
Welcome! Mar 2010.
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Congratulations to Pramod for acceptance of their
manuscript in the journal IEEE Transactions on Biomedical
Engineering, Feb 2010.
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Our
article Physics in Medicine and Biology paper,
"In-vivo carbon nanotube-enhanced non-invasive photoacoustic
mapping of the sentinel lymph node", has been chosen as one
the
Featured Article for the year 2009. The
article was selected for its presentation of outstanding new research,
receipt of the highest praise from the journal's international referees
and the highest number of downloads last year, Jan 2010.
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Our just-published Physics in Medicine and Biology paper, "In-vivo
carbon nanotube-enhanced non-invasive photoacoustic mapping of the
sentinel lymph node", has been chosen as a
Featured Article. Featured articles
from IOP Journals comprise of high-quality papers chosen by its editors
and referees for their novelty, high level of interest and potential
impact on future research, May 2009.
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Congratulations to Biomedical Engineering senior
design students Hero Ozagha, Aseem Das, Kaitlin Clifford, Kunal Jagota, Omair
Siddiqui advised by Professor Sitharaman for winning a special Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) award
and a honorable mention during the
undergraduate Research & creative activities (URECA)
day from Stony Brook University, May 2009.
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Dr. Pramod Avti (Ph.D.,
Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research, India) joins our group as a postdoctoral
research associate, Sept 2008. Welcome!
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Congratulations to Biomedical Engineering senior
design students Kathleen Bertman, Solmaz Eftekhari, Lianna Mashkovich,
Saumya Sharma advised by Professor Sitharaman for winning a
undergraduate Research & creative activities (URECA)
award from Stony Brook University, May 2008.
ARTICLES ABOUT RESEARCH IN POPULAR PRESS
AND TRADE JOURNALS
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"Nanotechnology-Based Research Promising for
Bone Tissue Healing" Published in
Newswise.com,
Nanotechnology Now,
Physorg.com,
News Day,
azonano.com, Dec 2010.
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An interview with Professor Sitharaman is
featured in the August 2009 ACS Nano podcast.The interview is about his
groups recent article entitled "The effect of nanoparticle-enhanced
photoacoustic stimulation on multipotent marrow stromal cells" published in
the August 2009 edition of ACS Nano,
Click on Episode 25, August 2009.
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