Shantikumar V Nair,                               Ph.D. 
                               
                              Director  
                           
                         
                                  
         
                                                    
                                                    
                            Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 
                           
                                                                              
                            Biomedical Engineering Centre 
                           
                                                                              
                            Kochi - 682 026                                 
                           
                                                    
                            Karnataka                                 
                           						  
                                                            
                           
                                                    
                            E-mail: nairshanti@gmail.com 
                           
                                                    
                               
                           
                          
                            URL:   www.amrita.edu/acns/faculty.php  
                           
                          
                          						  
                              
                           
						  
	                                                       
                            Area of Specialization:  
                           
                          
                          
                          
  
     
    Nanosciences  
   
    
                          
                        
                           
                           
                         
                         
                                                    
                                                    
                          
                             
                           
                                                    
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				Narayanan, S., Sathy, B. N., Mony, U., Koyakutty, M., Nair, S. V.  and Menon, D.  Biocompatible Magnetite/Gold Nanohybrid Contrast Agents via Green Chemistry for MRI and CT Bioimaging. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.  2011.  [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Mangalathillam, S., Rejinold, N. S., Nair, A., Lakshmanan, V. K., Nair, S. V.  and Jayakumar, R.  Curcumin loaded chitin nanogels for skin cancer treatment via the transdermal route. Nanoscale.  2011.  [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Perumcherry, S. R., Chennazhi, K. P., Nair, S. V. , Menon, D. and Afeesh, R.  A novel method for the fabrication of fibrin-based electrospun nanofibrous scaffold for tissue-engineering applications (*). Tissue Engineering. Part C, Methods.  2011.  17, 1121-1130. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Rejinold, N., Chennazhi, K. P., Tamura, H., Nair, S. V.  and Rangasamy, J.  Multifunctional chitin nanogels for simultaneous drug delivery, bioimaging, and biosensing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.  2011.  3, 3654-3665. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Jayakumar, R., Chennazhi, K. P., Srinivasan, S., Nair, S. V.,  Furuike, T. and Tamura, H.  Chitin scaffolds in tissue engineering. International Journal of Molecular Sciences.  2011.  12, 1876-1887. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Nair S. V.  The importance of specific biomolecules for enhancing tissue growth is well recognized and there have been notable studies on the incorporation of small molecule factors as coatings on scaffolds to help in tissue regeneration. Tissue Engineering. Part A.  2010.  16, 355-356. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Divya, R., Manzoor, K., Menon, D., Selvamurugan, N. and Nair, S. V.   The design of novel nanostructures on titanium by solution chemistry for an improved osteoblast response. Nanotechnology.  2009.  20, 195101. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Kwok, S., Partridge, N. C., Srinivasan, N., Nair, S. V.  and Selvamurugan, N.  Mitogen activated protein kinase-dependent inhibition of osteocalcin gene expression by transforming growth factor-beta1. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry.  2009.  106, 161-169. [PubMed]  
		 
	 
	 
  
                           
                         
                                                
 
                      
                          
                            
                                                                 
                                   
                             
                            
                                
                             
                            
                              
                                  
                                     
                                   
                                  
                                                                            
                                        
                                                                                    
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                                            Ph.D.                                                    				
				 
                                                    Columbia University                                                                        
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            Young Investigator