Prof. V. Renugopalakrishnan

PROF. V. RENUGOPALAKRISHNAN

a. Education U. of Madras, B.Sc. (Chemistry) 1962-65

Graduate School, Dept. of Chemistry, Columbia U., New York, NY 1966-67, in the laboratory of Profs. Ivan Taylor, Barbara Low, Harold Clayton Urey, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry;

Rockefeller U., Laboratory of Prof. Stanford Moore, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1966-67 U. of Madras, Madras, India, Centre for Advanced Study in Biophysics, Laboratory of Prof. G. N. Ramachandran FRS,1967-69

Graduate School, Dept. of Biophysical Sciences, State U. of New York, Buffalo, NY 1969-1973, Ph.D. (Biophysics), Sponsors, Prof. Robert Rein and Prof. Eric A. Barnard, FRS

Medical Research Council of Canada Post Doctoral Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children, U. of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 193-75, Prof. B. Sarkar, sponsor Dept. of Chemistry, Rutgers U., New Brunswick, N.J., Prof. F. Jordan, sponsor Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, U. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, Prof. Dan W. Urry, sponsor b. Faculty Appointments 1978-1981, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, U. of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago,IL 1981 Professor in Biochemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.1985-88 Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery (Biochemistry), Dept. of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, Harvard U. and Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 1988-94 Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery (Biochemistry), Dept. of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, Harvard U. and Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA. 1993-94 Accelrys Inc., San Diego, CA 1994-96 Professor, Dept. of Basic Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1997-99 Professor, National University of Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico 2001 – Founder BioFold Inc., Slicon Valley, CA 2000- Fall 2006 Coulter Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Bionanotechnology Group, College of Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL and Adjunct Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 2006- Professor, Nanobiotechnology Group, Dept. of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg, Denmark Professor, National University of Singapore, 2006- Children’s Hospital, Harvard, Boston, MA, USA since 1983 Center for Renewable Energy Technologies, Dept.of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA c. Publications (out of 240) (i) 5 Relavent publications to the Proposal [1] Renugopalakrishnan, R. Garduno-Juarez, G. Narasimhan, C.S. Verma, X. Wei, Pingzuo Li, J. Nanosc. Nanotech. 5,1759 (2005) [2] V. Thavasi, S. Filipek, T. Lazarova, A. Kumar, E. Padros, S. Ramakrishna, and V. Renugopalakrishnan, J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 9, 1679 (2009) [3] Bio-Batteries and Bio-Fuel Cells: Leveraging on Electronic Charge Transfer Proteins A. M. Kannan, V. Renugopalakrishnan, S. Filipek, P. Li, G. F. Audette, and L. Munukutla J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 9, 1665 (2009) [4] V. Thavasi, V. Renugopalakrishnan, R. Jose, V.Kumar and S. Ramakrishna, Materials Science and Engineering, doi:10.1016/j.mser.2008.09.001 (2008), 63, 81-99 (2009). [5] Protein Sensitizers on Nanostructured Wide Gap Semiconductors for Harnessing SolaEnergy. V. Renugopalakrishnan, A. Mershin, V. Thavasi, S. Filipek, M. Kolinski, E. Padros, C.S. Verma, M. Ortiz-Lombardia, A. Kumar, J. Dutta, and S. Ramakrishna. Nature Materials (revised) (ii) 5 Publications related to the Proposal [1] S.S.Tatke, V. Renugopalakrishnan, and M. Prabhakaran, Nanotechnology, 15, S684 (2004). [2] Monograph : Bionanotechnology : Proteins to Nanodevices, Springer BV, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2006 V. Renugopalakrishnan and R.V.Lewis [3] Protein-based Disk Recording at Areal Densities Beyond 10 Terabit/in2 S. Khizroev, R. Ikkawi, N. Amos, R. Chomko, V. Renugopalakrishnan, R. Haddon, D. Litvinov, Bulletin Material Research Society, 33, 864 (2008) [4] Pingzuo Li, A.Anumanthan, X-G. Gong, K. Ilangovan, V. V. Suzara, N, Düzgünes, and V. Renugopalakrishnan Applied Biochem. and Biotech 142, 105 (2007) [5] K. T. Sapra, J. Doehner, V. Renugopalakrishnan, E. Padro, and D. J. Muller, Biophysical Journal, 95, 3407 (2008) d. Synergistic Activities Vice President, American Society for Bionanoscience and Bioengineering, 2009 (expected date of launch) NIH NRCC US Canadian Joint Symposium “Expanding Frontiers in Polypeptide and Protein Structures” International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics Satellite Symposium, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, July 1990 US Army Research Office : Biophysical Society Workshop, San Antonio, TX, 2003 US Air Force of Scientific Research, IEEE meeting, Miami, FL, 2004 International Conference in Bionanoscience, National Science Council, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007 NIDA, NIH Study Section 1985-91 2 MD-Ph.D. students mentored Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Bionanoscience (www.aspbs.com/jbns) Associate Editor, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology(www.aspbs.com/jnn) NIH grants since 1978 starting from Research Career Development Award, 1978 Graduate level Text Book in Bionanoscience (jointly with NEU and CalTech); Courses :Molecular Bioenergetics, Northeastern Univ., Bionanoscience, HST, First Year Medical Students e. Active collaborations (21) International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Carl von Ossietzky U. of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany