Manzoor   Koyakutty,                               Ph.D. 
                               
                              Professor  
                           
                         
                                  
         
                                                    
                                                    
                            Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 
                           
                                                                              
                            Biomedical Engineering Centre 
                           
                                                                              
                            Kochi - 682 026                                   
                           
                                                    
                            Kerala                                 
                           						  
                                                            
                           
                                                    
                            E-mail: m.koyakutty@erasmusmc.nl 
                           
                                                    
                               
                           
                          
                            URL:   http://www.amrita.edu/acns/faculty.php  
                           
                          
                          						  
                              
                           
						  
	                                                       
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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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				Chandran, P., Sasidharan, A., Ashokan, A., Menon, D., Nair, S. and Koyakutty, M.   Highly biocompatible TiO:Gd(3) nano-contrast agent with enhanced longitudinal relaxivity for targeted cancer imaging. Nanoscale.  2011.  3, 4150-4161. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sasidharan, A., Chandran, P., Menon, D., Raman, S., Nair, S. and Koyakutty, M.   Rapid dissolution of ZnO nanocrystals in acidic cancer microenvironment leading to preferential apoptosis. Nanoscale.  2011.  3, 3657-3669. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Ashokan, A., Chandran, P., Sadanandan, A. R., Koduri, C. K., Retnakumari, A. P., Menon, D., Nair, S. and Koyakutty, M.   Development and haematotoxicological evaluation of doped hydroxyapatite based multimodal nanocontrast agent for near-infrared, magnetic resonance and X-ray contrast imaging. Nanotoxicology.  2011.  [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Retnakumari, A., Jayasimhan, J., Chandran, P., Menon, D., Nair, S., Mony, U. and Koyakutty, M.   CD33 monoclonal antibody conjugated Au cluster nano-bioprobe for targeted flow-cytometric detection of acute myeloid leukaemia. Nanotechnology.  2011.  22, 285102. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Sasidharan, A., Panchakarla, L. S., Chandran, P., Menon, D., Nair, S., Rao, C. N. and Koyakutty, M.  Differential nano-bio interactions and toxicity effects of pristine versus functionalized graphene. Nanoscale.  2011.  3, 2461-2464. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Habeeb, M., Verma, P. K., Pal, S. K., Retnakumari, A., Koyakutty, M.,  Nair, S. and Pradeep, T.  Luminescent quantum clusters of gold in bulk by albumin-induced core etching of nanoparticles: metal ion sensing, metal-enhanced luminescence, and biolabeling. Chemistry.  2010.  16, 10103-10112. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Ashokan, A., Menon, D., Nair, S. and Koyakutty, M.   A molecular receptor targeted, hydroxyapatite nanocrystal based multi-modal contrast agent. Biomaterials.  2010.  31, 2606-2616. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Retnakumari, A., Setua, S., Menon, D., Ravindran, P., Muhammed, H., Pradeep, T., Nair, S. and Koyakutty, M.   Molecular-receptor-specific, non-toxic, near-infrared-emitting Au cluster-protein nanoconjugates for targeted cancer imaging. Nanotechnology.  2010.  21, 055103. [PubMed]  
		 
		
			
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				Setua, S., Menon, D., Asok, A., Nair, S. and Koyakutty, M.   Folate receptor targeted, rare-earth oxide nanocrystals for bi-modal fluorescence and magnetic imaging of cancer cells. Biomaterials.  2010.  31, 714-729. [PubMed]  
		 
	 
	 
  
                           
                         
                                                
 
                      
                          
                            
                                                                 
                                   
                             
                            
                                
                             
                            
                              
                                  
                                     
                                   
                                  
                                                                            
                                        
                                                                                    
                                            Education  
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            Honors and Awards  
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            Marie-Curie IIF Award from European Commission   
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            National Science Day Award   
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            Young Scientist of the Year 2004   
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            Best Laboratory Scientist   
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            European Society of Nanomedicine    
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            European Foundation of Clinical Nanomedicine   
 
                                           
                                                                                    
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                                            American Association of Nanomedicine