Debabrata (Dev) Mukhopadhyay
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering;Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science,Florida, USA
Biography
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Science, Jacksonville, Florida, has a joint appointment with the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering. He has specific expertise in key research areas including Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases and Neurodegenerative diseases. As a postdoctoral fellow, later as an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston, he carried out angiogenesis and tumor microenvironment related research. After moving to Mayo Clinic as a Professor and also as Leader of both Tumor Microenvironment program and Translational Nanomedicine Programs, he has been supervising additional research areas including targeted drug delivery and novel drug development. He has published more than 198 peer-reviewed manuscripts in different journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Caner Cell, Cancer Research, Nano Letters and other highly rated journals. He has several patents and has been involving to develop different start-up companies in the area of therapy and diagnosis of the diseases.
Abstract
Abstract : Single-walled carbon nanotubes as sensors of reactive species: Potential therapeutic implications