Dr Aswathy Ravindran Girija

Research Fellow Future Industries Institute

email Aswathy.RavindranGirija@unisa.edu.au

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Research Degree Supervisor

About me

I am a Research Fellow at the Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia. Currently my research is in regenerative medicine research focusing on new and improved antibody based technology for the treatment of wounds. Before starting in this position in June 2016, I gained 5 years of post doctoral experience working at BionNano electronics Research center, Toyo University, Japan. I joined Toyo University, Japan on receiving MEXT Scholarship for PhD and obtained PhD in Life Science (specialization in BioNano Science Fusion) in 2012. My interdisciplinary research was focused on the development and application of biocompatible nanomaterials for theragnostic (therapeutic and diagnostic) application in cancer... Read more

Future Industries Institute

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Future Industries Institute -Early Career research group-(FII-ECR)

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Research

Research themes

An age friendly world
Cancer
Healthy futures
Transforming societies

Research focus

Nanotechnology
Materials Engineering
Biological Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Sciences

Highlights

Development of new and improved antibody-based technologies for the treatment of wounds

Development of photo-antibody therapy for cancer and wound infections

Application of nanomaterials as theragnostic agents in cancer

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2017	Girija, AR 2017, 'Peptide nutraceuticals', in S Koutsopoulos (ed.), Peptide applications in biomedicine, biotechnology and bioengineering, Woodhead Publishing, US, ch. 6, pp. 157-181.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2019	Ravindran Girija, A, Balasubramanian, S, Bright, R, Cowin, AJ, Goswami, N & Vasilev, K 2019, 'Ultrasmall gold nanocluster based antibacterial nanoaggregates for infectious wound healing', Chemnanomat: Chemistry of Nanomaterials for Energy, Biology and More, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 1176-1181. 10
2017	Sivakumar, B, Aswathy, RG, Romero-Aburto, R, Mitcham, T, Mitchel, KA, Nagaoka, Y, Bouchard, RR, Ajayan, PM, Maekawa, T & Sakthikumar, DN 2017, 'Highly versatile SPION encapsulated PLGA nanoparticles as photothermal ablators of cancer cells and as multimodal imaging agents', Biomaterials Science, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 432-443. 21 19 1
2016	Rochani, AK, Balasubramanian, S, Ravindran, GA, Raveendran, S, Borah, A, Nagaoka, Y, Nakajima, Y, Maekawa, T & Kumar, DS 2016, 'Dual mode of cancer cell destruction for pancreatic cancer therapy using Hsp90 inhibitor loaded polymeric nano magnetic formulation', International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 511, no. 1, pp. 648-658. 13 11
2016	Rochani, AK, Ravindran, GA, Borah, A, Maekawa, T & Kumar, DS 2016, 'Heat-shock protein 90-targeted nano anticancer therapy', Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 105, no. 4, pp. 1454-1466. 3 3
2015	Balasubramanian, S, Ravindran, GA, Nagaoka, Y, Fukuda, T, Iwai, S, Kizhikkilot, V, Kato, K, Maekawa, T & Nair, SD 2015, 'An 'all in one' approach for simultaneous chemotherapeutic, photothermal and magnetic hyperthermia mediated by hybrid magnetic nanoparticles', RSC Advances: An International Journal to Further the Chemical Sciences, vol. 5, no. 32, pp. 25066-25078. 7 8
2015	Dilna, SV, Surya, H, Girija, AR, Varsha, KK, Sakthikumar, DN, Pandey, A & Nampoothiri, KM 2015, 'Characterization of an exopolysaccharide with potential health-benefit properties from a probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum RJF4', LWT: Food Science and Technology, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 1179-1186. 49 45 1
2014	Balasubramanian, S, Ravindran, GA, Nagaoka, Y, Iwai, S, Suzuki, M, Kizhikkilot, V, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Nair, SD 2014, 'Curcumin and 5-Fluorouracil-loaded, folate- and transferrin-decorated polymeric magnetic nanoformulation: a synergistic cancer therapeutic approach, accelerated by magnetic hyperthermia', International Journal of Nanomedicine, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 437-459. Open access 65 66 1
2014	Lale, S V, Aswathy, R, Aravind, A, Kumar, DS & Koul, V 2014, 'AS1411 aptamer and folic acid functionalized ph-responsive ATRP fabricated pPEGMA-PCL-pPEGMA polymeric nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery in cancer therapy', Biomacromolecules, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1737-1752. 62 63
2014	Raveendran, S, Girija, AR, Balasubramanian, S, Ukai, T, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Kumar, DS 2014, 'Green approach for augmenting biocompatibility to quantum dots by extremophilic polysaccharide conjugation and nontoxic bioimaging', ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 1551-1558. 11 10
2014	Sivakumar, B, Aswathy, RG, Sreejith, R, Nagaoka, Y, Iwai, S, Suzuki, M, Fukuda, T, Hasumura, T, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Sakthikumar, DN 2014, 'Bacterial exopolysaccharide based magnetic nanoparticles: a versatile nanotool for cancer cell imaging, targeted drug delivery and synergistic effect of drug and hyperthermia mediated cancer therapy', Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 885-899. 24 24 1
2014	Sivakumar, B, Girija, AR, Nagaoka, Y, Iwai, S, Hasumura, T, Venugopal, K, Kato, K, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Sakthikumar, DN 2014, 'Augmented cellular uptake and antiproliferation against pancreatic cancer cells induced by targeted curcumin and SPION encapsulated PLGA nanoformulation', Materials Express, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 183-195. 6 7
2013	Sivakumar, B, Aswathy, RG, Nagaoka, Y, Iwai, S, Venugopal, K, Kato, K, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Sakthi, KDN 2013, 'Aptamer conjugated theragnostic multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles as a nanoplatform for pancreatic cancer therapy', RSC Advances: An International Journal to Further the Chemical Sciences, vol. 3, no. 43, pp. 20579 -20598. 20 22
2013	Sivakumar, B, Aswathy, RG, Nagaoka, Y, Suzuki, M, Fukuda, T, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Sakthikumar, DN 2013, 'Multifunctional carboxymethyl cellulose-based magnetic nanovector as a theragnostic system for folate receptor targeted chemotherapy, imaging, and hyperthermia against cancer', Langmuir: The ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids, vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 3453-3466. 60 57
2012	Aswathy, RG, Sivakumar, B, Brahatheeswaran, D, Fukuda, T, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Kumar, DS 2012, 'Biocompatible fluorescent zein nanoparticles for simultaneous bioimaging and drug delivery application', Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 3, no. 2, article no. 025006, pp. 1-7. Open access 34
2012	Aswathy, RG, Sivakumar, B, Brahatheeswaran, D, Raveendran, S, Ukai, T, Fukuda, T, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Sakthikumar, DN 2012, 'Multifunctional biocompatible fluorescent carboxymethyl cellulose nanoparticles', Journal of Biomaterials and Nanobiotechnology, vol. 3, no. 2A, pp. 254-261. Open access
2012	Aswathy, RG, Sivakumar, B, Brahatheeswaran, D, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Sakthi, KDN 2012, 'Green synthesis, characterization and in vitro biocompatibility of starch capped PbSe nanoparticles', Advanced Science Letters, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 69-75. 2
2012	Brahatheeswaran, D, Mathew, A, Aswathy, RG, Nagaoka, Y, Venugopal, K, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Sakthikumar, D 2012, 'Hybrid fluorescent curcumin loaded zein electrospun nanofibrous scaffold for biomedical applications', Biomedical Materials, vol. 7, no.4, article no. 045001, pp. 1-16. 83 82
2012	Dhandayuthapani, B, Varghese, SH, Aswathy, RG, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Sakthikumar, D 2012, 'Evaluation of antithrombogenicity and hydrophilicity on Zein-SWCNT electrospun fibrous nanocomposite scaffolds', International Journal of Biomaterials, vol. 2012, article no. 345029, pp. 1-10. Open access 23 1
2011	Girija, AR, Sivakumar, B, Brahatheeshwaran, D, Ukai, T, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Kumar, SD 2011, 'Biocompatible fluorescent jelly quantum dots for bioimaging', Materials Express, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 291-298. 14 14
2010	Aswathy, RG, Yoshida, Y, Maekawa, T & Kumar, DS 2010, 'Near-infrared quantum dots for deep tissue imaging', Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol. 397, no. 4, pp. 1417-1435. 135 129 6
2008	Aswathy, RG, Ismail, B, John, RP & Nampoothiri, KM 2008, 'Evaluation of the probiotic characteristics of newly isolated lactic acid bacteria', Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, vol. 151, no. 2-3, pp. 244-255. 28 30

Other outputs

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Highlights

Journal reviewer (Scientific Reports, Molecular pharmaceutics, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, etc)

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	INDIA
National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology	INDIA
Rice University	UNITED STATES
Sooriya Hospital	INDIA
Toyo University	JAPAN
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Texas	UNITED STATES

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Life member Biotech Research Society, India	2016
Member Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea	2016

Other

FII-ECR treasurer (2018-2019)

Research panel member-( PhD confirmation)

Resource person for High school students for Projects

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

2005-2006: Lecturer, Malankara Catholic College, Tamilnadu, India

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Development of new approaches for the treatment of infected wounds	Current

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