Pallabita Chowdhury
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Scientist, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Education/Experience
2021-Present Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Connecticut
2020-2021 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Abbvie, North Chicago, IL
2015-2020 Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
2013-2015 M.S. in Industrial Pharmacy, University of Toledo
2008-2012 B. Pharm. in Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, India
Honors and Awards
2018-2019 Alma and Hall Reagan Endowment Fellowship at the University Tennessee Health Science Center in recognition to research accomplishments in the field of cancer therapy
2017 1st prize in Biomaterial day at Vanderbilt University for Best Poster Award entitled: Docetaxel Loaded Magnetic Nanoparticles for Overcoming Drug Resistance in Prostate Cancer
2017 1st prize as Best Second Year Graduate Student Poster Presenter in Graduate Research Day, University of Tennessee Health Science Center for presenting poster entitled Nano self-assemblies of Paclitaxel for Breast Cancer Treatment
Publications
Pallabita Chowdhury, Upasana Ghosh, Kamalika Samanata, Subhash C Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, Murali Yallapu, Bioactive nanotherapeutic trends to combat triple negative breast cancer, Bioactive Materials, March 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2021.02.037
Prashanth K Nagesh, Pallabita Chowdhury, Elham Hatami, Sonam Kumari, Vivek Kashyap, Manish Tripathi, Santosh Wagh, Bernd Meibohm, Subhash C Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, Murali Yallapu, Cross linked polyphenol-based drug nano-self assemblies engineered to blockade prostate cancer senescence, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Manuscript, September 2019 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b14738
Pallabita Chowdhury, Prashanth K Nagesh, Elham Hatami, Santosh Wagh, Dan Nirnoy, Manish K Tripathi, Sheema Khan, Bilal Hafeez, Bernd Meibohm, Subhash Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, Murali M. Yallapu, Tannic acid inspired paclitaxel nanoparticles for enhanced anticancer effects in breast cancer cells, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, February 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2018.09.072
Vivek K. Kashyap, Qinghui Wang, Saini Setua, Prashanth K. B. Nagesh, Neeraj Chauhan, Sonam Kumari, Pallabita Chowdhury, Duane D. Miller, Murali M. Yallapu, Wei Li, Meena Jaggi, Bilal Bin Hafeez, Subhash C. Chauhan, Therapeutic efficacy of a novel βIII/βIV-tubulin inhibitor (VERU-111) in pancreatic cancer, Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13046-018-1009-7
Dherya Bahl, Rinda Devi Bachu, Mrudula Chitti, Pallabita Chowdhury, Jwala Renukuntla, Sai HS Boddu, Transscleral Iontophoretic Drug Delivery for Treating Retinal Diseases, Springer Nature, October 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95807-1_14
Prashanth K. B. Nagesh, Pallabita Chowdhury, Elham Hatami, Vijaya K. N. Boya, Vivek K. Kashyap, Sheema Khan, Bilal B. Hafeez, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, and Murali M. Yallapu, miRNA-205 Nanoformulation Sensitizes Prostate Cancer Cells to Chemotherapy, Cancer, MDPI, August 2018, https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers10090289
Pallabita Chowdhury, Prashanth K Nagesh, Sheema Khan, Subhash C Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, Murali Mohan Yallapu, Development of polyvinylpyrrolidone-paclitaxel self-assemblies for breast cancer: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, July 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsb.2017.10.004
Elham Hatami, Prashanth K. B. Nagesh, Pallabita Chowdhury, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, Amali E. Samarasinghe, Murali M. Yallapu, Tannic Acid-Lung Fluid Assemblies Promote Interaction and Delivery of Drugs to Lung Cancer Cells, Pharmaceutics, MDPI, July 2018, https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics10030111
Prashanth K.B. Nagesh, Elham Hatami, Pallabita Chowdhury, Vivek K. Kashyap, Sheema Khan, Bilal B. Hafeez, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi and Murali M. Yallapu, Tannic Acid Induces Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Mediated Apoptosis in Prostate Cancer. Cancer, MDPI, March 2018, https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers10030068
Rinda Devi Bachu, Pallabita Chowdhury, Zahraa H. F. Al-Saedi, Pradeep K. Karla, Sai H. S. Boddu, Ocular Drug Delivery Barriers—Role of Nanocarriers in the Treatment of Anterior Segment Ocular Diseases, Pharmaceutics, MDPI, February 2018, https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics10010028
Yuqing Gong, Pallabita Chowdhury, Narasimha M. Midde, Mohammad A. Rahman, Murali M. Yallapu*, and Santosh Kumar, Novel elvitegravir nanoformulation approach to suppress the viral load in HIV-infected macrophages, Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, December 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrep.2017.10.005
Pallabita Chowdhury, Allison M. Roberts, Sheema Khan, Bilal B. Hafeez, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, Murali M. Yallapu, Magnetic Nanoformulations for Prostate Cancer: Drug Discovery Today, August 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2017.04.018
Pallabita Chowdhury, Prashanth K.B. Nagesh, Meena Jaggi, Subhash C. Chauhan, Santosh Kumar, and Murali M. Yallapu, Pluronic Nanotechnology for Overcoming Drug Resistance, Book Chapter: Bioactivity of Engineered Nanoparticles, Springer Nature, August 2017, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-5864-6_9
Nagesh PK, Johnson NR, Boya VK, Chowdhury Pallabita, Othman SF, Khalilzad-Sharghi, Hafeez BB, Ganju A, Khan S, Behrman SW, Zafar N, Chauhan SC, Jaggi M, Yallapu MM, PSMA targeted docetaxel loaded superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for prostate cancer, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, August 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2016.03.071
Hashem Alsaab, Sindhu Prabha Bonam, Dherya Bahl, Pallabita Chowdhury, Kenneth Alexander, Sai HS. Boddu, Organogels in Drug Delivery: A Special Emphasis on Pluronic Lecithin Organogels, Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, July 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.18433/J3V89W
Soohi Patel, Chandrasekhar Garapati, Pallabita Chowdhury, Himanshu Gupta, Jerry Nesamony, Surya Nauli, Sai HS. Boddu, Development and Evaluation of Dexamethasone Nanomicelles for Posterior Uveitis, Journal of ocular pharmacology and therapeutics, May 2015, https://doi.org/10.1089/jop.2014.015
