Education
M.S., Panjab University, India
4th year student

Advisor
Alexander Kabanov, Ph.D.

Research Area
Pluronic block coplymers as adjuvants for gene delivery in and through antigen presenting cells.

Publications 
Yves Fromes, Vivek Mahajan, Caroline Roques, Alexander Kabanov. A block copolymer based gene therapy approach towards the cardiovascular diseases. 8th International Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium from Laboratory to Clinical Reality, October 2010, Omaha, NE, US

Christelle M.Roux, Jon P. DeMuth, Patrick D. Olson, Vivek Mahajan and Paul M. Dunman.Characterization of the components of staphylococus aureus messenger RNA degradosome. 54th Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology, June 2010, Estes Park, CO, USA

 Zhao Y,Haney MJ, Mahajan V, Reiner BC, Dunaevsky A, et al.(2011) Active Targeted Macrophage-mediated Delivery of Catalase to Affected Brain Regions in Models of Parkinson’s disease. J Nanomedic Nanotechnol S4:003.doi:10.4172/2157-7439.S4-003

Awards
New invention notification award “Immune Cells for Cell Mediated Delivery of Genes and In Vivo Transfection of Diseased Host Tissues” as a contributing inventor, received by UNeMed. (provisional patent applications with the USPTO as 12084P – “Gene Therapy” Serial #61/645,148) – Oct 2012

New invention notification award “Transfection of Immune Cells with Plasmid DNA Using Polymer” as a contributing inventor, received by UNeMed. (provisional patent applications with the USPTO as 12087P – “Polymeric Gene Delivery System” Serial #61/647,548) – Oct 2012

 

Vivek Mahajan, Ph.D. Student
Vivek Mahajan
Ph.D. Student
vmahajan@unmc.edu