Kalpana Panigrahi, PhD

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Director of Community Research Sciences for Global health and development

University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Public Health

Professional Summary

• 2012 – present   Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• 2008 - 2012  Research Scientist/Study coordinator, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB)
• 2002 – 2007  Senior Scientist, Baltimore Research and Education Foundation ( BREF) – VA Hospital Baltimore/Department of pathology, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB)
• 1998 – 2001  Chief Scientist, Incubator program, Baltimore Dev Corporation, Baltimore, MD
• 1995 – 1997  Staff Scientist, Incubator Program, Baltimore Dev Corporation, Baltimore, MD
• 1992 – 1994  Fellow in Clinical Chemistry, Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
• 1987 - 1991  Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland College Park, MD
• 1987 – 1991  Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland College Park, MD
• 1986 – 1987  Graduate research Assistant, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, MD
• 1985 – 1986  Research Fellow, V.P. Chest Research Institute, University of Delhi, India

Education

• PhD Biochemistry, University of Maryland College Park, 1991
• MS Biochemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, 1985
• BS Chemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, 1985

Selected Publications

• Panigrahi K.and Sampugna J. 1993.  Effects of trans Fatty Acids on lipid accumulation in 3T3-L1 cells, Lipids 28;12:1069-74
• Panigrahi K., Delmas P.D., singer F. et al. 1994.  Characteristics of a Two-Site Immunotadiometric Assay for measuring human skeletal alkaline phosphatase in serum.  Clin Chem 40;5:822-828
• Panigrahi K., Fisher R., Reiss O. and Christenson R.H. 1993.  Immunoradiometric Assay for Skeletal Alkaline Phosphate: Evaluation of Analytical Performance and Determination of Normal Reference Interval, AACC, New York
• Panigrahi K., Ryan W. and Christenson R.H. 1994. Comparative characteristics of Total ALP, B-ALP by Ostase Assay and B-ALP by Electrophoretic method in Paget’s Disease patients. AACC, New Orleans
• Panigrahi, K., Gains S., Vigliotti D., Duh s. and Christenson R.H.  1994.  Immunoassays for whole blood Cylosporin A: Evaluation and comparison between methods. AACC, New Orleans.

Professional Associations

• American Association for Clinical Chemistry ( AACC)