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Maity, Amit Ranjan

Research contents (Research key words)

Nanomaterials, Drug Delivery System, Targeted Drug Delivery, Intracellular Targeting, Bioimaging, Anticancer Therapy

Biography

• 2017-Current date

  JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Innovation Center of Nanomedicine (iCONM)

• 2014-2017

  PBC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel

• 2009-2014

  Ph.D. in Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India

• 2007-2009

  M.Sc. in Chemical Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India

• 2004-2007

  B.Sc. in Chemistry, Vidyasagar University, India

Performance

Scientific Publications:

1. Maity, A. R.; Stepensky, D. Nuclear targeting efficiency of quantum dots depends on density of peptidic targeting residues on their surface J. Control Release, 2017, 257(10), 32-39.
2. Maity, A. R.; Stepensky, D. Efficient subcellular targeting to the cell nucleus of quantum dots densely decorated with nuclear localization sequence peptide. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces., 2016, 8, 2001-2009.
3. Bhunia, S.; Maity, A. R.; Nandi, S.; Stepensky, D.; Jelinek, R. Imaging cancer cells expressing the folate receptor with carbon dots produced from folic acid. ChemBioChem., 2016, 17, 1-7. (back cover page)
4. Maity, A. R.; Stepensky, D. Limited efficiency of drug delivery to specific intracellular organelles using subcellularly “targeted” drug delivery systems. Mol. Pharm., 2016, 13, 1-7.
5. Maity, A. R.; Stepensky, D. Delivery of drugs to intracellular organelles using drug delivery systems: Analysis of research trends and targeting efficiencies. Int. J. Pharm., 2015, 496, 268-274.
6. Palmal, S.; Maity, A. R.; Singh, B. K.; Basu, S.; Jana, N. R.; Jana, N. R. Inhibition of amyloid fibril growth and dissolution of amyloid fibrils by curcumin-gold nanoparticles. Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20 (20), 6184-6191.
7. Maity, A. R.; Chakraborty, A.; Mondal, A.; Jana, N. R. Carbohydrate coated, folate functionalized colloidal graphene as a nanocarrier for both hydrophobic and hydrophilic drugs. Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 2752-2758.
8. Chakraborty, A.; Maity, A. R.; Jana, N. R. Folate and biotin based bifunctional quantum dot as fluorescent cell label. RSC Advances, 2014, 4, 10434-10438.
9. Saha, A.; Basiruddin, SK.; Maity, A. R.; Jana, N. R. Synthesis of nanobioconjugates with controlled number of biomolecules between 1-100 per nanoparticle and observation of multivalency dependent interaction with proteins and cells. Langmuir, 2013, 29 (45), 13917-13924.
10. Sarkar, S.; Maity, A. R.; Karan, N. S.; Pradhan, N. Fluorescence energy transfer from doped to undoped quantum dots. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2013, 117 (42), 21988-21994.
11. Das, P.; Saha, A.; Maity, A. R.; Ray, S. C.; Jana, N. R. Silicon nanoparticle based fluorescent biological label via low temperature thermal degradation of chloroalkylsilane. Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 5732-5737.
12. Maity, A. R.; Palmal, S.; Basiruddin, SK.; Karan, N.S.; Sarkar, S.; Pradhan, N.; Jana, N. R. Doped semiconductor nanocrystal based fluorescent cellular imaging probes. Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 5506-5513.
13. Bhunia, S. K.; Saha, A.; Maity, A. R.; Ray, S. C.; Jana, N. R. Carbon nanoparticle-based fluorescent bioimaging probes. Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, 1473. (One of the top 50 most read articles, May-December, 2013).
14. Maity, A. R.; Saha, A.; Roy, A.; Jana, N. R. Folic acid functionalized nanoprobes for fluorescence-, dark-field-, and dual-imaging-based selective detection of cancer cells and tissue. ChemPlusChem, 2013, 3 (78), 259-267.
15. Basiruddin, SK.; Maity, A. R.; Jana, N. R. Glucose/galactose/dextran-functionalized quantum dots, iron oxide and doped semiconductor nanoparticles with, 100 nm hydrodynamic diameter. RSC Advances, 2012, 2, 11915-11921.
16. Palmal, S.; Basiruddin, SK.; Maity, A. R.; Ray, S. C.; Jana, N. R. Thiol-directed synthesis of highly fluorescent gold clusters and their conversion into stable imaging nanoprobes. Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 943-949.
17. Basiruddin, SK.; Maity, A. R.; Saha, A.; Jana, N. R. Gold-nanorod-based hybrid cellular probe with multifunctional properties. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115 (40), 19612–19620. (research highlighted in Nature India on October 29, 2011).
18. Maity, A. R.; Jana, N. R. Chitosan−cholesterol based cellular delivery of anionic nanoparticles J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115 (1), 137-144. (research highlighted in Nature India on January 19, 2011).

Patent:

19. Madhusudan B.; Maity A. R.; Mitra S.; Dinda A. K. Novel nanocarrier for efficient drug delivery, Provisional Indian Patent, Application no 201611009768, March, 2016.

Book chapter:

20. Maity, A. R.; Stepensky D. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Nano-Drug Delivery Systems, in Intracellular Delivery III: Market Entry Impediments of Nanomedicines, Springer Series Fundamental Biomedical Technologies, 2016.

Fellowship and Research Grant:

1. JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (standard) for Foreign Researchers from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan (stipend and 2,400,000 JPY research funding) (2017-2019).
2. The Tokyo Biomedical Research Foundation (TBRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Asian Researcher from The Tokyo Biomedical Research Foundation Research Grant Supervisor, Japan (did not joined) 2017.
3. PBC Postdoctoral Scholarship for Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows from India and China from The Planning and Budgeting Committee of The Israeli Council of Higher Education, Israel (stipend and research contingency) (2014-2017).
4. Senior Research Fellowship (2011-2014) and Junior Research Fellowship (2009-2011) to peruse Ph.D. from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India (stipend and research contingency)
5. Integrated Ph.D. fellowship to peruse M.Sc. from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India (stipend and research contingency) (2007-2009).

Awards:

1. Best Poster Award from Clinical Nanomedicine and Targeted Medicine (CLINAM-2016) organized by European Foundation for Clinical Nanomedicine, Basel, Switzerland, 2016.
2. Young Researcher Award from International Conference on Nano Science and Technology (ICONSAT-2012), Hyderabad, India, 2012.