Education

Gordon Battelle Postdoctoral Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2013

Ph.D. Old Dominion University, 2010

B.Tech. Center for Biotechnology - A.C.Tech., Anna University, 2003

Biography

Prakash D. Nallathamby is a research assistant professor with a joint appointment at the center for nanoscience and technology (NDnano). His goal is to facilitate the use of nanoparticle-enabled technologies in research labs across campus. He is a nanoparticle engineer with more than 12 years of multidisciplinary expertise in the synthesis of nanomaterials, biomedical imaging, cancer biology, nanotoxicology, and targeted therapeutics/ diagnostics. 

Summary of Activities/Interests

The broad scope of his research interest is to use nanoparticles as tools in: (1) biomedical research and development, (2) anisotropic modular platform technologies, (3) scaled up industrial applications, (4) environmental cleanup, and (5) computational modelling. The driving force behind his research is to use his unique interdisciplinary research experience with nanoscale sensor materials, to elucidate inter-cell trafficking and defense mechanisms of abnormal cells (e.g. cancer) with the aim of exploiting this knowledge for early detection and targeted therapies. He has secondary research interests in nanotoxicology and scaling up the synthesis of nanomaterials from lab scale to pilot scale with a niche focus on anisotropic and Janus nanoparticles. His other interests include the application of plasmonic nanomaterials in the field of metamaterials, environmentally friendly synthetic techniques of renewable energy sources, and new approaches for the scalable synthesis of highly crystalline, non-sintered metal oxides (gadolinium oxide, hafnium oxide, iron oxide and molybdenum oxides) 

He has won multiple awards as a consultant for Innocentive (crowdsource initiative by former Eli Lilly scientists), and is a successful co-applicant for research grants in an academic setting. His combined work experience in industry, academics, and as a consultant gives him a diverse skillset that will allow him to continue to build on his strong interdisciplinary research under the NDnano umbrella, by collaborating with affiliated faculty from a wide field of research areas and in related institutions nationally and internationally. Please feel free to contact him for collaborative and partnership opportunities by email or LinkedIn.

Research Highlights

• 25 peer-reviewed journal articles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/10iLerfFteSkf/bibliography/47198941/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

• Cited more than 1400 times: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pkez5IQAAAAJ&hl=en
• Co-authored 1 book chapter: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471746606.html
• Filed for 2 patents: US20090148863, US20120164073

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