Padma Rajagopalan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 
Department of Chemical Engineering

Virginia Tech
141 Randolph Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061


Phone:  540-231-4851
E-mail: padmar@vt.edu
Laboratory for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

EDUCATION:

	Ph.D, Brown University
	M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
	B.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

	Biomaterials
	Cell and Tissue Engineering

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

	Rajagopalan P., Shen C.J., Berthiaume F., Tilles A. W., Toner M., and Yarmush M.L.  Polyelectrolyte Nano- scaffolds for the Design of Layered Cellular Architectures. Tissue Engineering, 12(6) 1553-1563, 2006.
	Rajagopalan P., Berthiaume F., Tilles A. W, Toner M., and Yarmush M.L. Selective Enhancement of Cytochrome P450 Activity in Rat Hepatocytes by In Vitro Heat Shock. 2005.Tissue Engineering 11 (9-10) 1527-1534, 2005.
	Rajagopalan P., Marganski W., Brown X.Q., and Wong J.Y . Direct Comparison of the Spread Area,  Contractility, and Migration of balb/c 3T3 Fibroblasts Adhered to Fibronectin- and RGD-Modified Substrata Biophysical Journal 87:2818-2827, 2004.
	Zaari N., Rajagopalan P., Kim S.Y., and Wong J.Y. Photopolymerization in Microfluidic Gradient Generators:Microscale Control of Substrate Compliance to Manipulate Cell Response. Advanced Materials, 16, 23-24, 2004.
	Revzin A., Rajagopalan P., Tilles A.W., Berthiaume F., Yarmush M.L. and Toner M. Microarraying Proteins to Create Cell-Specific Adhesion Domains: A Study of the Hepatocyte and Fibroblast Co-Culture. Langmuir 20(8)   2999-3005, 2004.
	Wong, J. Y.; Velasco, A.; Rajagopalan, P.; Pham, Q. Directed Movement of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells on Gradient-Compliant Hydrogels.  Langmuir, 19(5); 1908-1913, 2003.
	Zaari N., Rajagopalan P., Kim S.Y. and Wong J.Y.. Microgradient mechanically-compliant polyacrylamide gels to probe cell response. Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc.,  Polym. Chem.), 44(1), 2003.
	Rajagopalan P., Marganski W., Dembo M., and Wong J.Y. Traction Stresses and Morphology of  3T3 Fibroblast Cells on Fibronectin- versus RGD-Modified Elastic Substrata; Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Advanced Biomaterials. 711,231-237,2002