Drug Delivery, Self-Assembled Super Structures, Sensors

1. Ph. D. (Polymer Chemistry), Madras (IIT), 2004

1. Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
2. Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (2014 - 2017)
3. Assistant Professor, IISER-Kolkata (2008 - 2013)
4. Research Associate, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2003 - 2008)

1. IISER Kolkata Nominee for the Innovation Club Meeting from Rashtrapati Bhavan (2016)
2. 6th National Innovation Award under the Polymeric Material Category from Honerable Central Minister for Petrochemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India (2016)
3. Ramanujan Fellowship from DST, India (2010)

1. Mane, Shivshankar R and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Homopolymer into Unique Superstructures"." ACS Macro Letters, 3, 44-50
2. B, Sourav; N, Vijaykameswara Rao; Sarkar, Santu and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012."Unusual emission from norbornene derived phosphonate molecule – A Sensor for FeIII in Aqueous Environment." Nanoscale, 4, 6962-6966

M, Shivshankar R; N, Vijaykameswara Rao,; C., Koushik,; D., Himadri; N., Soma; K., Abhinoy; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012.""Amphiphilic Homopolymer Vesicles as Unique Nano-Carriers for Cancer Therapy" ." Macromolecules, 45, 8037-8042

M, Shivshankar R; N., Vijaykameswara Rao; C., Koushik; D., Himadri; N,, Soma; K., Abhinoy; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012."“A Unique Polymeric Nano-carrier for Anti-tuberculosis Therapy” ." J. Mater. Chem., , 22, 19639

M, Shivshankar R; N, Vijayakameswara Rao and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012.""Reversible pH- and Lipid-Sensitive Vesicles from Amphiphilic Norbornene-Derived Thiobarbiturate Homopolymers"." ACS Macro Letters, 1, 482-488

All Publications:

1. Mukherjee, Saikat; Patra, Dipendu; Dinda, Himadri; Chakraborty, Ipsita; Bhattacharya, Rangeet; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2016." "Super paramagnetic Norbornene Copolymer Functionalized with Biotin and Doxorubicin: A Potential Unique Site-Specific Theranostic Agent.." Macromolecules,, xx, xx
2. Singh, Thokchom Prasanta and Shunmugam, Raja. 2016.""PCl3-Mediated Synthesis of Green/Cyan Fluorescent Proteins Chromophore using Amino Acids.." New J. Chem, xx, xx
3. Mukherjee, Saikat; Dinda, Himadri; Shasank, Litesh; Chakraborty, Ipsita; Bhattacharya, Rangeet; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2015.""Site-Speci?c Amphiphilic Magnetic Copolymer Nanoaggregates for Dual Imaging. ." Macromolecules,, 19, 6791–6800
4. Mane, Shivshankar R; Sarkar, Santu; N, Vijayakameswara Rao; S, Ashlin and Shunmugam, Raja. 2015."Efficient method to prepare a new class of regioregular graft copolymer via click chemistry approach." 2015, 5, ." RSC Adv.,, 5, 74159
5. Ganivada, Mutyala Naidu; Kumar, Pawan and Shunmugam, Raja. 2015."A Unique Polymeric Gel by Thiol-Alkyne Click Chemistry." RSC Adv., , 5, 50001
6. Bhattacharya, Sourav and Shunmugam, Raja. 2015.""Unique Norbornene Based Triazole Molecule for Selective Fe(II) Sensing." ." RSC Adv.,, 5, 74973
7. Ganivada, Mutyala Naidu; N, Vijayakameswara Rao; Dinda, Himadri; Kumar, Pawan; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Biodegradable Magnetic Nanocarrier for Stimuli Responsive Drug Release." ." Macromolecules, 47, 2703-2711
8. Sarkar, Santu and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Polynorbornene derived 8-hydroxyquinoline paper strips for ultrasensitive chemical nerve agent surrogate sensing." ." Chem. Comm., , 50, 8511-8513.
9. N,, Vijayakameswara Rao; Dinda, Himadri; Venu, Parvathy; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Smart nanocarrier from norbornene based triblock copolymers for the sustained release of multi-cancer drugs." ." RSC Adv., 4, 45625-34.
10. N,, Vijayakameswara Rao; Dinda, Himadri; Ganivada, Mutyala Naidu; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Efficient approach to prepare multiple chemotherapeutic agents conjugated nanocarrier."." Chem. Comm., 50, 13540-43.
11. Mane, Shivshankar R; Sathyan, Ashlin; Dinda, Himadri; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Increased bioavailability of rifampicin from stimuli-responsive smart nano carrier." ." ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, , 6 , 16895-902
12. N, Vijaykameswara Rao,; Naidu, Mutyala Ganivada; Sarkar, Santu; C, Koushik; Dinda, Himadri; D, Tanmoy; Dassarma, Jayasri and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Magnetic Norbornene Polymer as Multi-responsive Nanocarrier for Site Specific Cancer Therapy"." Bioconjugate Chem. , 25 , 276-285
13. Mane, Shivshankar R; C, Koushi; Dinda, Himadri; Dassarma, Jayasri and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Stimuli responsive nanocarrier for an effective delivery of multi-frontline tuberculosis drugs"." Polym. Chem., , 5 , 2725-2735
14. Mane, Shivshankar R and Shunmugam, Raja. 2014.""Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Homopolymer into Unique Superstructures"." ACS Macro Letters, 3, 44-50
15. Sarkar, Santu and Shunmugam, Raja. 2013.""Unusual Red Shift of the Sensor While Detecting the Presence of Cd2+ in Aqueous Environment" ." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 5, 7379–7383
16. Bhattacharya, Sourav; Sarkar, Santu and Shunmugam, Raja. 2013.""Unique norbornene polymer based "in-field" sensor for As(III)"." J. Mater. Chem. A, , 1, 8398-8405
17. B, Sourav; N, Vijaykameswara Rao; Sarkar, Santu and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012."Unusual emission from norbornene derived phosphonate molecule – A Sensor for FeIII in Aqueous Environment." Nanoscale, 4, 6962-6966
18. M, Shivshankar R; N, Vijaykameswara Rao,; C., Koushik,; D., Himadri; N., Soma; K., Abhinoy; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012.""Amphiphilic Homopolymer Vesicles as Unique Nano-Carriers for Cancer Therapy" ." Macromolecules, 45, 8037-8042
19. N, Vijaykameswara Rao,; K, Abhinoy; S, Santu; J, Das Sarma and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012.""Norbornene Derived Poly-D-lysine Copolymers as Quantum Dot Carriers for Neuron Growth" ." Biomacromolecules, 13, 2933–2944
20. M, Shivshankar R; N., Vijaykameswara Rao; C., Koushik; D., Himadri; N,, Soma; K., Abhinoy; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012."“A Unique Polymeric Nano-carrier for Anti-tuberculosis Therapy” ." J. Mater. Chem., , 22, 19639
21. M, Shivshankar R; N, Vijayakameswara Rao and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012.""Reversible pH- and Lipid-Sensitive Vesicles from Amphiphilic Norbornene-Derived Thiobarbiturate Homopolymers"." ACS Macro Letters, 1, 482-488
22. Sarkar, Santu; M, Arbendo; T, Ashwani K and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012.""Unique Emission from Norbornene Derived Terpyridine – A Selective Sensor for G-type Nerve Agent Surrogates"." Chem. Comm. , 48, 4223-4225
23. N, Vijayakameswara Rao; M, Shivshankar R; K, Abhinoy; Sarma, Jayasri Das and Shunmugam, Raja. 2012.""Norbornene Derived Doxorubicin Copolymers as Drug Carriers with pH Responsive Hydrazone Linker" ." Biomacromolecules, 13, 221-230