Mukesh Dhanka
Department : Biological Engineering
Research Interests
● Allograft Therapy
● Biomaterials
● Drug Delivery
● Bio-nanotechnology
● Orthopedic Applications
● Regenerative Medicine
● Photo-thermal Therapy
● Cancer
Professional Summary
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (June 2022 to Present)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, DBT-inStem, Bangalore (Mar 2021 – May 2022)
Bridging Postdoctoral Fellow, DBT-inStem, Bangalore (Mar 2020 – Mar 2021)
Research Associate, IIT Bombay (Jun 2018 – Dec 2018)
Publications
1. Mukesh Dhanka, Vaishali Pawar, Deepak S. Chauhan, Nishant Kumar Jain, Prabhuraj R.S. , Chaitra Shetty, Mukesh K. Kumawat, Rajendra Prasad, Rohit Srivastava, Synthesis and characterization of an injectable microparticles integrated hydrogel composite biomaterial: In vivo biocompatibility and inflammatory arthritis treatment, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 201 ( 2021) 111597, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2021.111597.
2. Vaishali Pawar, Mukesh Dhanka, Rohit Srivastava, Cefuroxime conjugated chitosan hydrogel for treatment of woundinfections , Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces , 173 (2019) 776–787, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.10.034.
3. Deepak S. Chauhan, B. Pradeep K. Reddy, Sumit K. Mishra, Rajendra Prasad, Mukesh Dhanka, Mukti Vats, Gayathri Ravichandran, Deeksha Poojari, Omkar Mhatre, Abhijit De, and Rohit Srivastava, Comprehensive Evaluation of Degradable and Cost-Effective Plasmonic Nanoshells for Localized Photothermolysis of Cancer Cells
Complete List of Publications