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Pratixa P. Joshi

Ph.D. Student / Graduate Research Assistant

Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C0800
Austin, TX 78712-1084

E-mail : joshi@mail.utexas.edu
Office : BME 4.406

Research Focus

Development of molecular specific near-infrared contrast agents for non-invasive detection of cancer and atherosclerosis.

Education

M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 2004.

B.E., Chemical Engineering, DD Institute of Technology, India, 1998.

Selected Publications

Srivalleesha Mallidi, Timothy Larson, Justina Tam, Pratixa P Joshi, Andrei Karpiouk, Konstantin Sokolov and Stanislav Emelianov, “Multi-wavelength Photoacoustic Imaging and Plasmon Resonance Coupling of Gold Nanoparticles for Selective Detection of Cancer”, Nano letters, 2009.

Ranga Partha; Linsey R. Mitchell; Jennifer L. Lyon; Pratixa P. Joshi; Jodie L. Conyers, “Buckysomes: Fullerene-based Nano-Carriers For Hydrophobic Molecule Delivery”, ACS Nano (2008), 2(9), 1950-1958.

Youdan Wang; Pratixa P. Joshi; Kevin L. Hobbs; Matthew B. Johnson; David W. Schmidtke, “Nanostructured Biosensors Built by Layer-By-Layer Electrostatic Assembly of Enzyme-Coated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Redox Polymers”, Langmuir (2006), 22(23), 9776-9783.

Pratixa P. Joshi; Stephen A. Merchant; Youdan Wang; David W. Schmidtke, “Amperometric Biosensors Based on Redox Polymer-Carbon Nanotube-Enzyme Composites”, Analytical Chemistry (2005), 77(10), 3183-3188.