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Шаблон:Infobox academic Dipanjan Pan is an Indian American academic who is the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Pennsylvania State University.[1]

Early life and education

Dipanjan Pan was born in India.[2] He obtained his doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and subsequently joined Washington University in St. Louis.[3] There, he collaborated with Karen L. Wooley on investigating the utilization of self-assembled polymeric nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery applications.[3]

Career

Pan started his career in 2005 as an intellectual property analyst in chemistry at General Electric's John F. Welch Technology Centre.[4]

In 2007, he joined the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis as a research instructor.[4][5] In 2010, he became an assistant professor in medicine and served until 2013, contributing to the field of cardiovascular research.[4][6]

In 2013, Pan joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor.[4]

In 2014, Pan co-founded InnSight Technology, a preclinical company, along with Leanne Labriola.[7] Two years later, in 2016, he co-founded KaloCyte, a company that has developed an artificial blood called Erythromer, with Allan Doctor and Philip Spinella.[8][9] He has served as a professor of radiology in the school of medicine, and professor of chemical and biochemical and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.[10][11]

Pan is the current head of the Pan Laboratory for Materials in Medicine.[12]

Research

His research focuses on the development and application of nanoscale materials and techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, particularly cancer and cardiovascular disorders.[3]

In 2014, Pan and his team reported a novel method for inhibiting cancer cell growth using nanotechnology, as detailed in a paper presented at the American Chemical Society conference.[13] The preliminary research demonstrated success in impeding breast cancer and melanoma cell growth in laboratory settings by delivering a synthetic compound mimicking venom from bees, snakes, and scorpions.[13][14]

In 2015, Pan, Leanne Labriola, and other team members developed a portable sensor named OcuCheck that assesses ocular injuries through the quantification of vitamin C concentration in a patient's tears at the University of Illinois.[15]

In 2018, Pan and other researchers at the University of Illinois created a gel utilizing gold nanoparticles which has the capability to rapidly detect ocular trauma.[16]

In 2020, Pan and his team initiated the development of rapid tests for detecting COVID-19.[17][18] Within six months, they created their first test, followed by four more by the end of 2021.[19] Three tests, including the Antisense test, have been licensed for commercialization and registered with the Food and Drug Administration.[19] Later, he founded a company called VitruVian Bio to further develop the test for commercial applications.[20][21]

In 2023, Dipanjan Pan and his research team developed the first rapid test for monkeypox, as reported in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.[22] It uses a selective molecular sensor that can detect the virus within minutes.[22] The method employs nanomaterial heterostructures, consisting of zero-dimensional spherical gold nanoparticles and two-dimensional hafnium disulfide nanoplatelets, as building blocks to create a platform technology capable of detecting trace amounts of genetic material in biological samples.[22]

Awards and recognition

  • 2014: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry[4]
  • 2016: Nanomaterials Letter Researcher Award[4]
  • 2016: Elected Fellow of AHA[23]
  • 2018: Elected Fellow of ACC[24]
  • 2018: Dean's Award[25]
  • 2020: COVID-19 Hero Award[26]
  • 2021: Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) Award[27]
  • 2023: Elected Fellow of AIMBE[28]

Bibliography

  • Nanomedicine: A Soft Matter Perspective
  • Personalized Medicine with a Nanochemistry Twist: Nanomedicine

References

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