Rizia Bardhan

Rizia Bardhan is an Indian origin American biomolecular engineer who is an Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. She is Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Rizia Bardhan
Alma materWestminster College (Missouri)
Rice University
Scientific career
InstitutionsIowa State University
Vanderbilt University
Molecular Foundry
ThesisNanostructures for plasmon enhanced fluorescence sensing: From photophysics to biomedicine (2010)

Early life and education

Bardhan was an undergraduate student in chemistry at Westminster College and graduated in 2005.[1] She moved to Rice University for her graduate studies, where she worked under the supervision of Naomi Halas. Bardhan completed her doctoral research at Rice, where she studied nanostructures for plasmonic enhancement. When these nanostructures are excited using light they can enhance the fluorescence signatures of nearby molecules.[2] When molecules were 7 nm from the surface of these nanostructures, it was possible to generate an enhancement of 50 times of the fluorescent signal.[2] After earning her doctorate, Bardhan was appointed a research fellow at the Molecular Foundry.[3]

Research and career

Bardhan joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in 2012. Her research considered nanomedicine and nanophotonics. In particular, Bardhan studied new imaging modalities for identifying immunomarkers, metabolic imaging using Raman spectroscopy, examinations of the mechano-molecular model of nanomaterials and the mechanisms that underpin photothermal immunotherapies.[4]

In 2020, Bardhan joined the faculty at the Iowa State University as an Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering.[5] She was awarded over $2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health for her biomedical engineering program. Bardhan combined her experience creating plasmonic nanostructures with her understanding of immunomarkers to better predict who will respond well to immunotherapy. The approach combined immunoactive gold nanostructures with positron emission tomography and Raman spectroscopy, detecting tumour cells that were expressing a particular biomarker as well as immune cells.[5]

Bardhan was made Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in 2021.[6]

Awards and honors

Selected publications
  • Jonathan A Fan; Chihhui Wu; Kui Bao; et al. (1 May 2010). "Self-assembled plasmonic nanoparticle clusters". Science. 328 (5982): 1135–1138. Bibcode:2010Sci...328.1135F. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1187949. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 20508125. Wikidata Q58221820.
  • Rizia Bardhan; Surbhi Lal; Amit Joshi; Naomi J Halas (25 May 2011). "Theranostic nanoshells: from probe design to imaging and treatment of cancer". Accounts of Chemical Research. 44 (10): 936–946. doi:10.1021/AR200023X. ISSN 0001-4842. PMC 3888233. PMID 21612199. Wikidata Q34187209.
  • Rizia Bardhan; Nathaniel K Grady; Joseph R Cole; Amit Joshi; Naomi J Halas (1 March 2009). "Fluorescence enhancement by Au nanostructures: nanoshells and nanorods". ACS Nano. 3 (3): 744–752. doi:10.1021/NN900001Q. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 19231823. Wikidata Q51810019.

References
  1. Backer, Sarah Rummel (10 January 2020). "Celebrating Four Fabulous Decades: 40 Years, 40 Women Honorees Announced". News at Westminster College. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  2. Bardhan, Rizia (2010). Nanostructures for plasmon enhanced fluorescence sensing: From photophysics to biomedicine (Thesis). Rice University. hdl:1911/62004. OCLC 1031099544.
  3. "Rizia Bardhan - Associate Professor [C B E] - Faculty - Profile". Expert Finder. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  4. "Bio". School of Engineering. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  5. "Rizia Bardhan receives three research awards totaling $2.25 million to advance engineered medicine innovations • College of Engineering News • Iowa State University". news.engineering.iastate.edu. 30 September 2020. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  6. "ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  7. "Rizia Bardhan". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  8. "NSF Award Search: Award # 1342185 - BRIGE: Bimetallic Plasmonic Nanostructures for Enhanced Light Harvesting in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  9. "ORAU awards $175,000 in research grants to 35 faculty at member universities". Oak Ridge Today. 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
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