Banerjee group's second paper is accepted in Advanced Therapeutics!
PI: A. Ronnie Banerjee
Graduate student: Alex Lott (co-supervised with Prof. Alan van Orden).
Senior UG researchers: Alex Barnosky, Hutch Schumacher.
UG researchers: Peter Zheng, Amanda Burns, Ayla Boschert, Mark Slade.
Alumni
Timothy Schwantes (BS 2024)
Eva Dukhovskaya, Brady Mitchell (summer students, 2025)
PhD project: Design, synthesis, XAS characterization, and functional testing of metalated carbon nanodots as versatile theragnostic materials.
Project: Using C. elegans as a model bridge organism for pre-clinical functional testing of magnetofluorescent bionanoprobes.
Project: Anti-cancer and insulin mimetic vanadium drug-loaded solid lipid nanoparticles: formulation, characterization, and drug release studies.
Project: Getting the "nano-toolkit" in place: a green, affordable, neophyte-friendly nano-chemistry experiment involving catalytic superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs)
Published in RSC Sustainability, 2025!
Project: Microwave-mediated synthesis of magnetofluorescent bionanoprobes for the imaging of C. elegans
Project: N-doped and N-free carbon quantum materials with immobilized antitumor and anti-diabetic V-complexes show potentiated phosphatase inhibitor activity.