Vinod Labhasetwar, Ph.D.

 

      

TAPAN K. JAIN, Ph.D.

Ph.D. (Chemistry), University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Postdoctoral Research Associate,

    Deptartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UNMC, Omaha

Phone: (402) 559-2407

Fax: (402) 559-9543

Email: tjain@unmc.edu

 

Research Interest |Academic Qualifications |Professional Experience |Honors |Affiliation |Patents |Publications |Presentations |

 

Research Interest


Exploiting surface science and particle engineering for drug delivery and diagnostics.

  • Preparation and characterization of nanoparticles (Ceramic, Magnetic, Polymeric etc.) for diagnosis/imaging and drug targeting.

  • Encapsulation of biomolecules (Protein, Enzymes etc.) and other drug molecules in nanoparticles for drug delivery and other therapeutic purposes.

Academic Qualifications

 

2001

 

 

 

 

Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry), University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Title of Ph.D. Thesis:  “Entrapment of Enzymes and other Bioactive Molecules in silica nanoparticles and their characterization.” 
1996

M.Sc. (Physical Chemistry), University of Delhi, Delhi, India

 

Professional Experience

 

April 2003 –        Present

 

 

Sept. 2001-April 2003 

 

 

 

Feb. 2000-July, 2001

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of pharmacy, University Of Nebraska Medical Center.

       

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NSF-Engineering Research Center for particle science and technology and Center for Surface Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

 

Senior Research Fellow, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India               

 

Honors and Awards

 

  • Senior Research Fellowship, Council for scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, Feb., 2000 - July, 2001.

  • Visiting research scholar at Prof. David Avnir’s Laboratory, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Jan. 1998- Feb. 1998

 

Publications

  1. Sahoo S, Jain T, Reddy M, Labhasetwar V: Nano-sized carriers for drug delivery, in "Nanobiotechnology", (Ed. Elan Levy), The Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ, 2006 (in press).

  2. Tapan K. Jain, Marco A. Morales, Sanjeeb K. Sahoo, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky and Vinod Labhasetwar; (2005) Iron-oxide nanoparticles for sustained delivery of anticancer agents. Molecular Pharmaceutics 2, 194-205.

  3. Marco A. Morales, Tapan K. Jain, Vinod Labhasetwar and Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky; (2005) Magnetic studies of iron oxide nanoparticles coated with oleic acid and Pluronic® block copolymer. Journal of Applied Physics 97 (10Q901), 1-3.

  4. Shraboni Das, Tapan Kumar Jain and Amarnath Maitra; (2002) Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Nanoparticles from n-Octyl Triethoxy Silane. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 252(1), 82-88.

  5. Tapan Kumar Jain, Indrajit Roy, Tapas K. De, and Amarnath Maitra; (1998) Nanometer Silica Particles Encapsulating Active Compounds: A Novel Ceramic Drug Carrier, Journal of American Chemical Society, Vol. 120, No. 43, p11092-11095.

Abstracts/Presentations

  1. Sanjeeb K. Sahoo, Amulya K. Panda, Jayme Horning, Tapan K. Jain and Vinod Labhasetwar. Tissue model for in vitro evaluation of anticancer agents, 33rd Annual Meeting & Exposition of the Controlled Release Society, July 22 - 26, 2006, Vienna, Austria.

  2. Tapan K. Jain, Marco A. Morales, Sanjeeb K. Sahoo, Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky, Vinod Labhasetwar; (2005) Bilayer Stabilized Iron-oxide Nanoparticles: a Drug Carrier System for Anticancer Agents. Controlled Release Society 32nd Annual Meeting & Exposition, Miami, Florida, June 18-22. (Poster Presentation)

  3. Marco A. Morales, Tapan K. Jain, Vinod Labhasetwar and Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky; (2004) Magnetic Studies of Fe3O4 Nanoparticles Coated with Oleic Acid and Pluronic® Block Copolymer. 49th conference on Magnetism and magnetic materials, November 7-11, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

  4. Marco A. Morales, Tapan K. Jain, Vinod Labhasetwar and Diandra L. Leslie-Pelecky; (2004) Magnetic Studies of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Coated with Oleic Acid and Pluronic® F-127. Symposium on “Biomedical Applications of Magnetic nanoparticles”, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68508, USA 8th October. (Poster Presentation)

  5. Tapan Kumar Jain, Shraboni Das, Amarnath Maitra and Dinesh O. Shah; (2002) Preparation of Doped Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Silica Nanoparticles using Micelles. . Abstracts of Papers of The American Chemical Society, 223rd ACS National Meeting,Orlando, FL, USA, April 7-11, 2002, 223: 410-COLL Part 1 APR 7. (Oral Presentation)

  6. Indrajit Roy, Tapan Kumar Jain and Amarnath Maitra; (2000) Nanometer size silica particles encapsulating Glucose Oxidase : a potential  glucose sensor. Presented in 13th International symposium on surfactants in solution,  (SIS-2000), Gainesville, Florida, USA. (Oral Presentation)

wORKSHOPS aTTENDED

  1. 19th Annual Intensive Short Course entitled “Surfactants : Principles and Applications” March, 2003 at The Center for surface science and Engineering and Engineering Research Center for Particle Science and Technology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

  2. Particle Science Summer School in Winter 2002, January 26- February 2, 2002 at NSF-Engineering Research Center for Particle Science and Technology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

  3. 18th Annual Intensive Short Course entitled “Surfactants : Principles and Applications” March 27-29, 2002 at The Center for surface science and Engineering and Engineering Research Center for Particle Science and Technology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

 

 

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