Faculty & Staff

Faculty & Staff

Tapas Ranjan Nayak PhD

Research Instructor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute





Peer Reviewed Articles

  1. Chowdhury C, Nayak TR, Young KD, Ghosh AS. A weak DD-carboxypeptidase activity explains the inability of PBP 6 to substitute for PBP 5 in maintaining normal cell shape in Escherichia coli. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2010; 303(1): 76-83.
  2. Nayak TR, Leow PC, Ee PLR, Arockiadoss T, Ramaprabhu S, Pastorin G. Crucial parameters responsible for carbon nanotubes toxicity. Curr Nanosci 2010; 6(2): 141-54.
  3. Nayak TR, Li J, Phua LC, Ho HK, Ren Y, Pastorin G. Thin films of functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes as suitable scaffold materials for stem cells proliferation and bone formation. ACS Nano 2010; 4(12): 7717-25.
  4. Ren Y, Paira P, Nayak TR, Ang WH, Pastorin G. Synthesis of fullerene@gold core-shell nanostructures. Chem Commun 2011; 47(27): 7710-2.
  5. Nayak TR, Andersen H, Makam VS, Khaw, C, Bae S, Xu X, Ee PL, Ahn JH, Hong BH, Pastorin G, Ozyilmaz B. Graphene for controlled and accelerated osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells. ACS Nano 2011; 5(6): 4670-8.
  6. Zhang Y, Nayak TR (Equal Author), Hong H, Cai W. Graphene: a versatile nanoplatform for biomedical applications. Nanoscale 2012; 4(13): 3833-42.
  7. Li J, Nayak TR, Chandra GW, Ramaprabhu S, Vashist SK, Sheu F, Pastorin G. Incorporation and delivery of bioactive molecules from smart carbon nano-devices. Asian Chemistry Lett 2012; 16(1): 1-8.
  8. Hong H, Yang K, Zhang Y, Engle JW, Feng L, Yang Y, Nayak TR, Goel S, Bean J, Theuer CP, Barnhart TE, Liu Z, Cai W. In vivo targeting and imaging of tumor vasculature with radiolabeled, antibody-conjugated nanographene. ACS Nano 2012: 6(3): 2361-70.
  9. Li J, Yap SQ, Yoong SL, Nayak TR, Chandra GW, Ang WH, Panczyk T, Ramaprabhu S, Vashist SK, Sheu FS, Tan A, Pastorin G. Carbon nanotube bottles for incorporation, release and enhanced cytotoxic effect of cisplatin. Carbon 2012; 50(4): 1625-1634.
  10. Hong H, Zhang Y, Engle JW, Nayak TR, Theuer CP, Nickles RJ, Barnhart TE, Cai W. In vivo targeting and positron emission tomography imaging of tumor vasculature with 66Ga-labeled nano-graphene. Biomaterials 2012; 33(16): 4147-56.
  11. Hong H, Zhang Y, Nayak TR, Engle JW, Wong HC, Liu B, Barnhart TE, Cai W. Immuno-PET of tissue factor in pancreatic cancer. J Nucl Med 2012; 53(11): 1748-54.
  12. Zhang Y, Hong H, Niu G, Valdovinos HF, Orbay H. Nayak TR, Chen X, Barnhart TE, Cai W. Positron emission tomography imaging of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor expression with 61Cu-labeled lysine-tagged VEGF (121). Mol Pharmaceutics 2012; 9(12): 3586-94.
  13. Hong H, Zhang Y, Orbay H, Valdovinos HF, Nayak TR, Bean J, Theuer CP, Barnhart TE, Cai W. Positron emission tomography imaging of tumor angiogenesis with a 61/64Cu-labeled F(ab')(2) antibody fragment. Mol Pharmaceutics 2013; 10 (2): 709-16.
  14. Shi S, Yang K, Hong H, Valdovinos HF, Nayak TR, Zhang Y, Theuer CP, Barnhart TE, Liu Z, Cai W. Tumor vasculature targeting and imaging in living mice with reduced graphene oxide. Biomaterials 2013; 34(12): 3002-9.
  15. Zhang Y, Hong H, Orbay H, Valdovinos HF, Nayak TR, Theuer CP, Barnhart TE, Cai W. PET imaging of CD105/endoglin expression with a (61/64)-Cu-labeled Fab antibody fragment. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2013; 40(5): 759–767. doi 10.1007/s00259-012-2334-2.
  16. Zhang Y, Hong H, Nayak TR, Valdovinos HF, Myklejord DV, Theuer CP, Barnhart TE, Cai W. Imaging tumor angiogenesis in breast cancer experimental lung metastasis with positron emission tomography, near-infrared fluorescence, and bioluminescence. Angiogenesis 2013; 16 (3): 663-74.
  17. Guo J, Hong H, Chen G, Shi S, Nayak TR, Theuer CP, Barnhart TE, Cai W, Gong S. Theranostic unimolecular micelles based on brush-shaped amphiphilic block copolymers for tumor-targeted drug delivery and positron emission tomography imaging. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2014; 6(24): 21769–79. doi: 10.1021/am5002585.
  18. Chen F, Nayak TR (Equal Author), Goel S, Valdovinos HF, Hong H, Theuer CP, Barnhart TE, Cai W. In vivo tumor vasculature targeted PET/NIRF imaging with TRC105 (Fab)-conjugated, dual-labeled mesoporous silica nanoparticles. Mol Pharmaceutics 2014; 11(11): 4007–14. doi: 10.1021/mp500306k.
  19. Hong H, Nayak TR, Shi S, Graves SA, Fliss BC, Barnhart TE, Cai W. Generation and screening of monoclonal antibodies for immunoPET imaging of IGF1R in prostate cancer. Mol Pharmaceutics 2014; 11 (10): 3624-30.
  20. Li J, Pant A, Chin CF, Ang WH, Ménard-Moyon C, Nayak TR, Gibson D, Ramaprabhu S, Panczyk T, Bianco A, Pastorin G. In vivo biodistribution of platinum based drugs encapsulated into multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Nanomedicine 2014; 10(7): 1465-75.
  21. Shi S, Orbay H, Yang Y, Graves SA, Nayak TR, Hong H, Hernandez R, Luo H, Goel S, Theuer CP, Nickles RJ, Cai W. PET imaging of abdominal aortic aneurysm with 64Cu-Labeled anti-CD105 antibody fab fragment. J Nucl Med 2015; 56(6): 927-32. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.114.153098.
  22. Nayak TR, Andreou C, Oseledchyk A, Marcus WD, Wong HC, Massagué J, Kircher MF. Tissue factor-specific ultrabright SERRS nanostars for Raman detection of pulmonary micrometastases. Nanoscale 2017; 9(3):1110-19. doi: 10.1039/C6NR08217C.
  23. Nayak TR, Hao W, Pant A, Zheng M, Junginger H, Wei JG, Lee CK, Zou S, Alonso S, Czarny Bertrand, Storm G, Sow CH, Lee C, Pastorin G. ZnO nano-rod devices for intradermal delivery and immunization. Nanomaterials 2017; 7(6): 147. doi:10.3390/nano7060147.