Vinod Labhasetwar, Ph.D.

 

    

 

KAVITHA RAO

B. Pharm., SVB College of Pharmacy, India

Graduate student, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences,

UNMC, Omaha, NE

Phone: (402) 559-2407

Fax: (402) 559-9543

Email: krao@unmc.edu

 

 

Research Interests |Academic Qualifications |Professional Experience |Honors |Affiliation |Publications |Presentations |

 

Research Interests

  • TAT-peptide conjugated nanoparticles for CNS delivery of anti-HIV drugs

Educational Background

1997-2001

 

2004 - Present

B.Pharm, University of Mumbai, India

 

Ph.D. (Pharmaceutical Sciences), University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Professional Experience

Jun, 2004 - Cur

Teaching Assistant
Dept Of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Honors and Awards

  • Received the Sir Ratan Tata Trust Merit Scholarship, India (2000)

  • Received Graduate Fellowship at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport (2002)

ProFEssional  Affiliation

  • American Association Of Pharmaceutical Scientists

Bibliography

  1. Rao K, Panda AK, Labhasetwar V: Intravascular drug delivery systems and devices: interactions at biointerface, in “Surfaces and Interfaces for Biomaterials”, (Ed. Pankaj Vadgama), Woodhead Publishing Limited, Abington, UK. 573-584, 2005.

  2. Rao KS, Labhasetwar V: Trans-activating transcriptional activator (TAT) peptide-mediated brain drug delivery, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology (in press).

Abstracts/presentations

  1. Ghorpade Anuja, Rao Kavitha, Sahoo Prangya, Sahoo Sanjeeb, Borgmann Kathleen, Peridsky Raisa, Labhasetwar Vinod: Ritonavir nanoparticles inhibit productive replication of HIV-1ADA in MDM, Poster Presentation at Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, at Denver (Colorado) - February 5-9, 2006.

  2. Kavitha S Rao and Vinod Labhasetwar: TAT-peptide conjugated nanoparticles for the delivery of protease inhibitors across the blood-brain barrier, Poster Presentation at Pharmaceutics Graduate Student Research Meeting, at Minneapolis, MN-June 8-10, 2006.

  3. Kavitha S Rao and Vinod Labhasetwar: TAT-peptide conjugated nanoparticles for the delivery of protease inhibitors across the blood-brain barrier. Poster Presentation at Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium, at Omaha (Nebraska) – October 8-10, 2006.

  4. Kavitha S Rao and Vinod Labhasetwar: TAT-peptide conjugated nanoparticles for the delivery of protease inhibitors across the blood-brain barrier. Abstract submitted for GPEN 2006 meeting to be held in University of Kansas, Lawrence, on October 25-27, 2006.

 

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