Rizia Bardhan

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Rizia Bardhan
Alma mater Westminster College (Missouri)
Rice University
Scientific career
Institutions Iowa State University
Vanderbilt University
Molecular Foundry
Thesis Nanostructures for plasmon enhanced fluorescence sensing: From photophysics to biomedicine  (2010)

Rizia Bardhan is an Indian origin American biomolecular engineer who is an Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. She is Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces .

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Early life and education

Bardhan was an undergraduate student in chemistry at Westminster College and graduated in 2005. [1] She moved to Rice University for her graduate studies, where she worked under the supervision of Naomi Halas. Bardhan completed her doctoral research at Rice, where she studied nanostructures for plasmonic enhancement. When these nanostructures are excited using light they can enhance the fluorescence signatures of nearby molecules. [2] When molecules were 7 nm from the surface of these nanostructures, it was possible to generate an enhancement of 50 times of the fluorescent signal. [2] After earning her doctorate, Bardhan was appointed a research fellow at the Molecular Foundry. [3]

Research and career

Bardhan joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in 2012. Her research considered nanomedicine and nanophotonics. In particular, Bardhan studied new imaging modalities for identifying immunomarkers, metabolic imaging using Raman spectroscopy, examinations of the mechano-molecular model of nanomaterials and the mechanisms that underpin photothermal immunotherapies. [4]

In 2020, Bardhan joined the faculty at the Iowa State University as an Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering. [5] She was awarded over $2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health for her biomedical engineering program. Bardhan combined her experience creating plasmonic nanostructures with her understanding of immunomarkers to better predict who will respond well to immunotherapy. The approach combined immunoactive gold nanostructures with positron emission tomography and Raman spectroscopy, detecting tumour cells that were expressing a particular biomarker as well as immune cells. [5]

Bardhan was made Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in 2021. [6]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

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