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.
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
Book Chapters
Introduction: Nanotheranostics for Cancer Applications
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
Concluding Remarks and the Future of Nanotheranostics
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
90th ACS Colloid &Surface Science Symposium - Harvard University, MA 2016
UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science - UMass Medical School 2016,2017
Sukant Tripathy Symposium - University of Massachusetts Lowell 2016,2017,2018
Research Narrative
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.
Research Interests
Biomarker Discovery
Transplant Immunology
Proteomics
Transcriptomics
Metabolomics