Major publications:

2025

1. 1. 1. Gogoi N, Ahmed B, Rao S, Murty US, Pemmaraju DB. In Vitro Anti-Plasmodial Activity of Oroxylum indicum (L.) Kurz Stem Bark: Phytochemical Profiling via GC-MS and HRMS. Food Bioscience. 2025 Aug 27:107484.

      2. Darabdhara G, Borthakur P, Boruah PK, Sen S, Pemmaraju DB, Das MR. Advancements in Two-Dimensional Boron Nitride Nanostructures: Properties, Preparation Methods, and their Biomedical Applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2025.

      3. Kaur, S.D., Choudhary, S., Sen, S.,  Deepak Bharadwaj Pemmaraju, et al. Microneedle patches: the next frontier in cardiovascular care. Drug Deliv. and Transl. Res. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13346-025-01802-2 (IF: 5.7)

      4. Choudhary, S., Kaur, S.D., Gandhi, H. et al. An updated review on the potential of gold nanoparticles for cancer treatment and detection. Gold Bull 58, 4 (2025). (IF:2.1)

2024

1. 1. 5. Santhimoy Sen., Parihar Nidhi, Patil Prathamesh Mahadev & Deepak Bharadwaj Pemmaraju* et al. Revisiting the Emerging Role of Light-Based Therapies in the Management of Spinal Cord Injuries. Mol Neurobiol December 10, 2024. (IF: 4.8)

      6. Ganeshan S, Parihar N, Chonzom D, Mohanakrishnan D, Das R, Sarma D, Gogoi D, Das MR, Upadhayula SM, Deepak Bharadwaj Pemmaraju*. Glycyrrhizin functionalized CuS Nanoprobes for NIR Light-based therapeutic mitigation of acne vulgaris. Drug Delivery and Translational Research. 2024 May 4.(IF:5.0)

      7. Poddar Nidhi, Chonzom Dolker, Sen Santimoy, Parihar Nidhi, Patil Prathamesh, Balani J, Murty USN, Deepak Bharadwaj Pemmaraju*. Biocompatible arabinogalactan-chitosan scaffolds for photothermal pharmacology in wound healing and tissue regeneration. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 2024 Apr 23:131837. (IF: 8.2)

      8. Rahman M, Chetri S, Deepak Bharadwaj Pemmaraju, Murty US, Deshpande UP, Kakati M. An expanded plasma jet assisted technique for very high-rate synthesis of 2D α-MoO3 nanomaterials, with surface oxygen vacancies and robust induced ferromagnetism. Vacuum. 2024 Apr 22:113237. (IF: 4.0)

      9.  KP*, Sufian A, Parihar N, Badirujjaman M, Barman P, Kesarwani R, Deepak B. Pemmaraju*. Inflammatory-stimuli-responsive Turn-on NIR Fluorogenic Theranostic Prodrug: Adjuvant Delivery of Diclofenac and Hydrogen Sulfide Attenuates Acute Inflammatory Disorders. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2024 (IF 7.0). 

2023

1. 1. 10. Patil PM#, Poddar N#, Parihar N, Sen S, Mahapatra P, Murty USN, Deepak B. Pemmaraju*. Optoresponsive Pheophorbide-Silver based organometallic nanomaterials for high efficacy multimodal theranostics in Melanoma. Chemical Engineering Journal. 2023 Jun 13:144110 (IF 16.7). 

      11. Sushma MV, Sankaranarayanan SA, Bantal V, Deepak B. Pemmaraju, Rengan AK. Ethosomal Nanoformulations for Combinational Photothermal Therapy of Fungal Keratitis. Advanced Therapeutics.:2200331 https://doi.org/10.1002/adtp.202200331 (IF 5.00). 

      12. Mudigunda, Sushma Venkata#, Deepak B. Pemmaraju#, Sri Amruthaa Sankaranarayanan, and Aravind Kumar Rengan. 2023. "Bioactive Polymeric Nanoparticles of Moringa oleifera Induced Phyto-Photothermal Sensitization for the Enhanced Therapy of Retinoblastoma" Pharmaceutics 15, no. 2: 475. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15020475 (IF 6.52)

      13. Rahman, Mizanur, Deepak B. Pemmaraju, Upadhyayula Suryanarayana Murty, Sarat Phukan, U. Deshpande, Vasant G. Sathe, and Mayur Kakati. "A single-step plasma method for rapid production of 2D, ferromagnetic, surface vacancy-engineered MoO3-x nanomaterials, for photothermal ablation of cancer." Nanotechnology (2023). (IF 3.95)

      14. Aparajita Ghosh, Bishal Rajdev, Nidhi Parihar, Srikanth Ponneganti, Pintu Das, V.G.M. Naidu, P. Radha Krishnanand, U.S.N. Murty, Jagadeesh Kumar, Deepak B. Pemmaraju*, Bio-nanoconjugates of lithocholic acid/IR 780 for ROS-mediated apoptosis and optoacoustic imaging applications in breast cancer, "Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces", Volume 221, 2023, 113023 (IF: 5.99)

2022

1. 1. 15. Ghosh, Aparajita, Bijoyani Ghosh, Nidhi Parihar, Myrthong Ilaweibaphyrnai, Samir R. Panda, Amit Alexander, Naveen Chella, Murty USN, V. G. M. Naidu, and Deepak B. Pemmaraju*. "Nutraceutical prospects of Houttuynia cordata against the infectious viruses." Food Bioscience (2022): 101977. (IF 5.3)

      16. Venkata Prathyusha E, Prabakaran A, Ahmed H, Dethe MR, Agrawal M, Gangipangi V, Sudhagar S, Krishna KV, Dubey SK, Deepak B. Pemmaraju, Alexander A. Investigation of ROS generating capacity of curcumin-loaded liposomes and its in vitro cytotoxicity on MCF-7 cell lines using photodynamic therapy. Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther. 2022 Aug 25:103091 (IF:3.5)

      17. Deepak B. Pemmaraju#, Sushma Venkata Mudigunda#, Shivangi Paradkar, Eswara Rao Puppala, Basveshwar Gawali, Suryanarayana Murty Upadhyayula, Naidu Vegi Gangamodi, and Aravind Kumar Rengan, Multifunctional Polymeric Nanoparticles for Chemo/Phototheranostics of Retinoblastoma, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2022 8 (1), 151-160 (IF: 5.39).

      18. Deepak B. Pemmaraju#, Naibedya Dutta#, Suvranil Ghosh, Asif Ali, Ayan Mondal, Chirantan Majumder, Vinod K. Nelson, Subhash C. Mandal, Anup K. Misra, Aravind K. Rengan, Velyutham Ravichandiran, Chun-Tao Che, Katerina V. Gurova, Andrei V. Gudkov, Mahadeb Pal, Alkaloid-rich fraction of Ervatamia coronaria sensitizes colorectal cancer through modulating AMPK and mTOR signalling pathways, J. of Ethnopharmacology, Volume 283, 2022. (IF: 5.19)

2021

1. 1. 19. Tene K, Kalyan Kumar M, Basveshwar G, Eswara Rao P, Jagadeesh Kumar G, Kumar P, Pemmaraju DB, Murty USN, Gogoi R, Naidu VGM. Polyphenolic-Rich Compounds From Dillenia pentagyna (Roxb.) Attenuates the Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity: A High-Frequency Ultrasonography Assisted Approach. Front Pharmacol. 2021 May 17;12:624706. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.624706. (IF: 5.98)

2020

1. 1. 20. Tejaswini A# Deepak Bharadwaj PVP#, Rafiq Khan, SB Alvi, R Srivastava, Mahadeb Pal, N Khan, AK Rengan. NIR light-triggered selective ROS dependent autophagy for effective breast cancer therapy by CfAc/IR780 Nano liposomes. RSC Nanoscale, 2020,12, 2028-2039 (IF: 8.03)

2019

1. 1. 21. Syed Baseeruddin Alvi#, Deepak B. Pemmaraju#, Appidi Tejaswini#, Rajalakshmi P S, Minhas Gillipsie, Surya Prakash Singh, Afreen Begum, Bantal Veeresh, Rohit Srivastava, Nooruddin Khan, Aravind Kumar Rengan. The “Nano to Micro” transition of hydrophobic curcumin crystals leading to in situ adjuvant depots for Au-liposome nanoparticles mediated enhanced photothermal therapy”. RSC Biomater. Sci. 2019,7, 3866-3875. (IF: 7.5)

2018

1. 1. 22. Deepak Bharadwaj Pemmaraju#, Appidi T#, Minhas G, Singh SP, Khan N, Pal M, Srivastava R, Rengan A K. Chlorophyll rich biomolecular fraction of A. cadamba loaded into polymeric Nanosystem coupled with Photothermal Therapy: A synergistic approach for cancer theranostics. Int. J. Biol Macromol.  2018 Apr 15; 110:383-391. (IF:8.03)

      23. Singh SP*, Alvi SB*, Deepak Pemmaraju, Singh AD, Manda SV, Srivastava R, Rengan AK. NIR triggered liposome gold nanoparticles entrapping curcumin as in situ adjuvant for photothermal treatment of skin cancer. Int. J. Biol Macromol. 2018; 110:375-382. (IF:8.03)

(#Equal first author contribution)

(*Corresponding author contribution)

• Donker Chonzom, Ramya Sri Adapally, Anjana Swati Chitluri, Murty USN, Deepak Bharadwaj Pemmaraju*, “An Introduction to Enzymatic and Non-Enzymatic Glucose Biosensors Based on Glucose Oxidase”,  “Glucose Oxidase: Structure, Properties and Applications”, Nova Sciences Publisher, Inc. New York, USA. (https://doi.org/10.52305/ITNC4615)

• Nidhi Parihar, Ramya Avdoot Kalambe, Prathamesh Mahadev Patil, and Santimoy Sen, Deepak Bharadwaj Pemmaraju*, “Glucose Oxidase Catalyzed Glucose Oxidation for the Detection of Cancer Biomarkers”, “Glucose Oxidase: Structure, Properties and Applications”, Nova Sciences Publisher, Inc. New York, USA. (https://doi.org/10.52305/ITNC4615)

• Pemmaraju Deepak Bharadwaj, Aparajita Ghosh, Jagadeesh Kumar Gangasani, USN Murthy, VGM. Naidu, and Aravind Kumar Rengan. "Herbal biomolecules as nutraceuticals." Herbal Biomolecules in Healthcare Applications (2022): 525-549. 

• Gangasani, Jagadeesh Kumar, Deepak Bharadwaj Pemmaraju, USN. Murthy, Aravind Kumar Rengan, and VGM. Naidu. "Chemistry of herbal biomolecules." In Herbal Biomolecules in Healthcare Applications, pp. 63-79. Academic Press, 2022. 

Granted:

• Therapeutic formulations for the treatment and management of inflammatory bowel disease, Date of Filing: 20-06-2020, Date of Grant: 10-01-2022, Patent grant no:386296

Filed:

• “Liposomal nanoformulations for treatment of cancer”. Complete Indian Patent Application no. 201841032747, Filing Date: August 31, 2018.

• Hybrid polymeric nanoformulations for the treatment of Retinoblastoma by chemo/photothermal therapy. Patent Application no. 202041001986, Filing Date: January 16, 2020.

• "Theranostic nanoformulations and methods of preparation thereof"  Application Number:202231042832.  date of filing: 26 July 2022.