Archive of Biomedical Science and Engineering

Research Interest: Tissue & organ repair and regeneration, Tissue engineering, Wound healing, Clinical medicine, dimensional tissue equivalent models, Novel wound and scar remediation therapies, Chinese herbal medicine, Growth factor/extracellular matrix protein complexes, Pharmaceutical and drugs

Research Interest: Super-resolution technology; Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy(STORM); Cell Imaging and Structure; Propagation and Scattering of Light in Random and Complex Media; Classical Coherence Theory; Laser Communications and LaserRadar Systems; Near-field Scattering; Optical Imaging System

Research Interest:  Biomedical  instrumentation,  Health  monitoring  system,  System  modeling  and control, robotics

Research Interest: Synthesis and characterization of inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials, calcium phosphates, biomaterials, drug delivery, biomineralization and nanomedicine.

Research Interest: Medical Image Computing and Analysis, Image registration, Reconstruction and Segmentation, Image

Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Motion Estimation,

Deformable Registration, Optical Flow, Variational Method and Partial Differential Equation, Finite

Element, Numerical Method, Optimization, Image Guided Surgery, Matrix Computation, Computer Graphics

and Scientific Visualization, Cardiac Image Analysis, Brain Image Registration, Brain Functional Mapping,

Freehand Ultrasound Imaging

Research Interest:  Cell Printing, Now, he is especially interested in the novel cell printing method. With the different own designed cell printers, the project about how to printing vessels and the organ at the same time is underway. Organ on a chip, Now, he is especially interested in designing new method to 3D printing microfluidic chips which can be used in cell culture and the prototype of organ

Dr. Rajasekharredy Pala is a Nano biotechnologist specialized in the synthesis of various metal and metal oxide nanoparticles with their application as drug delivery agents to the primary cilia. After his post-graduation he was selected for ICMR-Senior Research Fellowship under Biomedical Sciences in 2011 and during this period of his doctoral studies at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India, he has earned handsome experience on the physical and chemical characterizations techniques of nanoparticles that are enveloped with various biologically active compounds such as protein, lipids and small molecular drugs for their biomedical applications. Dr. Pala working as a research associate in Chapman University and University of California Irvine from 2015.

Research Interest: Nanomedicine, Hypertension, Cancer, Renal diseases

URL: https://sites.chapman.edu/cilia/pala-rajasekharreddy/

Skype ID: raaja.biotech

List of Publications: 

Rajasekharreddy Pala, Ashraf M. Mohieldin, Kiumars Shamloo, Rinzhin T. Sherpa, Sarmed H.

Kathem, Jing Zhou, Zhongyue Luan, Jian-Guo Zheng, Amir Ahsan, and Surya M. Nauli.

Personalized Nanotherapy by Specifically Targeting Cell Organelles To Improve Vascular

Hypertension. Nano Letters Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04138

2. Zeng, Y., Zhu, J., Wang, J., Parasuraman, P., Busi, S., Nauli, S. M., Wáng, Y., Pala,

Rajasekharreddy, Liu, G. (2018). Functional probes for cardiovascular molecular

imaging. Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 8(8), 838-852 (co-corresponding

author).

3. Pala, Rajasekharreddy., Jamal, M., Alshammari, Q., Nauli, S.M. The Roles of Primary Cilia in

Cardiovascular Diseases. Cells 2018, 7, 233. (Published as cover page)

4. Rajasekharreddy Pala, Yun Zeng, Subhaswaraj Pattnaik, Siddhardha Busi, Alomari Nedaa,

Nauli Surya M, Gang Liu, (2018). Functionalized Silver Nanoparticles for Sensing, Molecular

Imaging and Therapeutic Applications. Current Nanomedicine, Pages 1 - 17 (17).

5. Pala Rajasekharreddy, Pathipati Usha Rani, Mattapally Saidulu & Sanjay K. Banerjee (2017).

Ultra-small silver nanoparticles induced ROS activated Toll-pathway against Staphylococcus

aureus disease in silkworm model, Materials Science and Engineering: C, 77, 990-1002

(corresponding author).

6. Pala Rajasekharreddy, Chao Huang, Siddhardha Busi, Jobina Rajkumari, Ming-Hong Tai, Gang

Liu (2017). Green Synthesized Nanomaterials as Theranostic Platforms for Cancer Treatment:

Principles, Challenges and the Road Ahead. Current Medicinal Chemistry, 24, 1-17. Doi.

10.2174/0929867324666170309124327.

7. Jobina Rajkumari, Siddhardha Busi, Aneesh Cherukunnel Vasu, Pala Rajasekharreddy (2017),

Facile green synthesis of baicalein fabricated gold nanoparticles and their antibiofilm activity

against Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Microbial Pathogenesis, 107: 261-269.

8. Rajasekharreddy Pala, Nedaa Alomari, Surya M. Nauli (2017). Primary Cilium-Dependent

Signaling Mechanisms, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 18, 2272.

9. Kiumars Shamloo, Juan Chen, Jasmine Sardar, Rinzhin T. Sherpa, Rajasekharreddy

Pala, Kimberly F. Atkinson,William J. Pearce, Lubo Zhang, Surya M. Nauli (2017). Chronic

Hypobaric Hypoxia Modulates Primary Cilia Differently in Adult and Fetal Ovine Kidneys.

Frontiers in Physiology, 8: 677.

10. Nauli, Surya M., Rajasekharreddy Pala, and Steven J. Kleene (2016). "Calcium channels in

primary cilia." Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension 25 (5): 452-458.

11. Pala Rajasekharreddy and Pathipati Usha Rani (2014). Biofabrication of Ag nanoparticles using

Sterculia foetida L. seed extract and their toxic potential against mosquito vectors and HeLa

cancer cells. Materials Science and Engineering: C, 39, 203-212.

12. Pala Rajasekharreddy and Pathipati Usha Rani (2014). Biosynthesis and characterization of Pd

and Pt nanoparticles using Piper betle L. plant in a photoreduction method. Journal of Cluster

Science, 25: 1377-1388.

13. Praveen Kumar Kalavagunta, Rajasekharreddy Pala, Usha Rani Pathipati and Narender Ravirala

(2014). Identification of β-Naphthol derivatives as novel antifeedants and insecticides-I. Journal

of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 62, 6571−6576.

14. Pala Rajasekharreddy and Pathipati Usha Rani (2012) Nontoxic effects of biologically

synthesized silver nanoparticles on silkworm, Bombyx mori L. Hexapoda 19 (1): 74–78.

Pathipati Usha Rani and Pala Rajasekharreddy (2011) Green synthesis of silver-protein (core–

shell) nanoparticles using Piper betle L. leaf extract and its ecotoxicological studies on Daphnia

magna. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 389 (1-3): 188-194.

16. Pathipati Usha Rani, Pala Rajasekharreddy and Kommu Nagaiah (2011). Allelopathic effects of

(2n-octylcycloprop-1-enyl)-octanoic acid (I) against Four Major Weeds. Allelopathy Journal. 28

(2) 179-188.

17. Pala Rajasekharreddy, Pathipati Usha Rani and Bojja Sreedhar (2010). Qualitative assessment of

silver and gold nanoparticle synthesis in various plants: a photobiological approach. Journal of

Nanoparticle Research, 12: 1711-1721.

18. Pala Rajasekharreddy and Pathipati Usha Rani (2010). Toxic properties of certain botanical

extracts against three major stored product pests. Journal of Biopesticides. 3(3): 586-589.

19. Pathipati Usha Rani and Pala Rajasekharreddy (2010). Insecticidal activity of (2n-octylcycloprop-

1-enyl)-octanoic acid (I) against three coleopteran stored product insects from Sterculia foetida

(L.). Journal of Pest Science, 83(3); 273-279.

20. Pathipati Usha Rani and Pala Rajasekharreddy (2009). Toxic and antifeedant activities of Sterculia

foetida (L.) seed crude extract against Spodoptera litura (F.) and Achaea janata (L.). Journal of

Biopesticides 2(2): 161-164.

Pathipati Usha Rani and Pala Rajasekharreddy (2013). Plants: The green factories for synthesis

of nanomaterials” in the book “Nanotechnology Environment” Edited by J.N. Govil. Studium Press

LLC, USA.

A method for isolation of an Ortho Quinone Methide intermediate. Pala Rajasekharreddy

and K.P Kumar and (PCT/IB2015/057628), WIPO publication no. WO/2016/059511.

• Green synthesis of highly monodispersed silver nanoparticles by plant. P. Usha Rani and Pala

Rajasekharreddy (File No. 4020/DEL/2012).

• Novel synthesis of 2-aminobenzothiazolomethyl naphthol derivatives and their

antifeedant activity. KP Kumar, Pala Rajasekharreddy, V. Narendar & P. Usha Rani (File No

0802/DEL/2013).

Research Interest: Surgical planning and simulation in esthetical facial surgeryTelemedicine o Biomedical engineering 

Research Interest: Image / signal processing, Machine learning, Computer-aided clinical diagnosis and treatment selection

Research Interest: Cell and tissue engineering

Research Interest: Electromyography, muscle fatigue, motor units, innervation zone, anal sphincter, MMG, biofeedback, cervical kinematics, helical axis

Research Interest: Medical Physics, Health physics, Radiation detection, Technique of Radiation Therapy, Treatment Planning in Radiation Therapy.

Research Interest: Biophotonics and Biosensors

Research Interest: Shape memory materials and composites (bulk and thin film), Laser annealing and micro fabrication, Thin films (characterization and materials/devices) Micro/nano mechanics, nano patterning and indentation technology, Surface and optical properties of smart materials.  Advanced and novel materials.  Micro assembly and packaging, active disassembly. Deployable and bi-stable structures. Materials selection Flight mechanism in inserts Micro biomedical devices

Research Interest: Time-domain optical brain imaging, functional near-infrared  ectroscopy,  fluorescence measurements, analyses of an optical properties of the media, development of optical imaging systems, brain optics, clinical applications