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Charudharshini Srinivasan, Ph.D. joined the Shimaoka lab in 2008.


Contact:
Phone: 617-713-8288
E-mail: csrinivasan@idi.harvard.edu

Charudharshini Srinivasan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Immune Disease Institute

Education:
1997 B. Pharm. The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R Medical University
2000 M. Tech. Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University
2008 Ph.D. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Position & Employment:
2008 Research Specialist, Dept. Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2008- Research Fellow, CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School

Honors and Awards:
2007 Schering-Plough Science & Innovation Award.
2007 Richardson-Vicks/A. Francis Summa Award.
2007 AAPS Biotechnology Symposium Award (Eli Lilly & Co.)
2008 AAPS Graduate Student Symposium in Biotechnology Award (Pfizer Global Biologics.)
2006 Gerald Jackson Memorial Award.
2005 Winners of the AFM Images of the month, December (Asylum Research)
2003 - 6 Doctoral Research Fellowship awarded by The Parenteral Drug Association Foundation (PDAF), Schering-Plough Grant.

1998 - 2000 Junior Research Fellowship awarded by University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, M.Tech program.

Selected publications:
1. Srinivasan C, Katare YK, Muthukumaran T and Panda AK. Effect of Additives on Encapsulation Efficiency, Stability and Bioactivity of Entrapped Lysozyme from Biodegradable Polymer Particles (2005). J Microencapsul. 22, 127-38.
2.
Srinivasan C and Burgess DJ. Anionic Lipid-Based Gene Delivery System (2005). Journal of Science & Technology. 1, 7- 11.
3.
Srinivasan C, Lee J, Papadimitrakopoulos F, Silbart LK, Zhao MH, and Burgess DJ. Labeling and intracellular tracking of functionally active plasmid DNA with semiconductor quantum dots (2006). Molecular Therapy. 14, 192-201.
4. M.H. Zhao, Srinivasan C, D.J. Burgess and B.D. Huey: Rate and depth dependent nanomechanical behavior of individual living Chinese hamster ovary cells probed by atomic force microscopy (2006). J. Materials Research. 21, 1906-1912.