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  • Title: Strain-induced scarring and its effects on microelectrodes
    Project Number: R01 NS045072 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: NIH
    Goal: Determine the response of primary astrocytes to mechanical strain (low frequency, low amplitude) with the idea of improving micro-electrode array design.
  • Title: A Regenerative Electrode for Peripheral Nerves (REPiN)
    Project Number: 0651716 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: National Science Foundation
    Goal: Integrate an electrode to create an interface with the peripheral nerve after amputation.
  • Title: Dontact guidance based 3D constructs for enhanced nervous system regeneration
    Project Number: EEC-9731643 (sub-project PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: National Science Foundation
    Goal: Design a new generation of biomimetic, anisotropic scaffolds that significantly enhance nerve regeneration.
  • Title: "Masked" Targeted Nanocarriers for Improved Chemotherapy of Gliomas
    Project Number: 0756567 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: National Science Foundation
    Goal: Develop a strategy to exploit the advantages of active targeting without sacrificing passive dosing of the nanocarriers to tumors.
  • Title: GTBioMAT: Graduate Training for Biomimetic, Integrative Biomaterials
    Project Number: T32EB006343 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: National Institutes of Health (NIBIB)
    Goal: Train a new generation of scientists to synthesize, characterize and apply new polymeric biomaterials that are responsive to physiological and pathological cues.
  • Title: Developing Minimally Invasive In Situ Gelling Nanotechnology to Facilitate a Combinatorial Therapy for Gliomas
    Project Number: (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: Nora L. Redman Fund
    Goal: Treat gliomas after resection using a conformally filling gel to deliver anti-cancer and anti-invasion drugs.
  • Title: Distinguished Cancer Scientist
    Project Number: (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: Georgia Cancer Coalition
    Goal: Advance research toward the understanding of and treatment of cancer.
  • Title: Developing and evaluating an N-acetylgalactosamine 4-sulfate 6-O-sulfotransferase knockout mouse
    Project Number: (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: Georgia Tech-UGA Collaborative Research Grants
    Goal: Develop a knockout mouse to determine the contribution of CS 4,6 sulfotransferase to the inhibition of spinal cord regeneration.

Past Projects

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  • Title: Neuro-integrative coatings for improved neural recordings
    Project Number: R01 DC06849 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: NIH
    Goal: Develop novel coatings for Si microelectrode arrays so that they can be optimized for stable chronic recordings from rat and primate cortex in vivo.
  • Title: Bioengineered scaffolds for peripheral nerve repair
    Project Number: R01 NS44409 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: NIH/NINDS
    Goal: Develop anisotropic hydrogel scaffolds to be used to bridge long peripheral nerve gaps.
  • Title: Chondroitin Sulfate GAG inhibition of Growth Cones
    Project Number: R01 NS043486 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: NIH
    Goal: Define biochemical properties of scar tissue, particularly the GAG part of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs), and study their effects on peripheral and central growth cones in vitro, and elicit the mechanism by which CS-GAGs may inhibit growth cones.
  • Title: A Novel Nanoscale Contrast Agent for Early Breast Cancer Detection
    Project Number: (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
    Goal: Develop a novel nanoscale contrast agent containing bismuth and demonstrate early breast cancer detection in vivo.
  • Title: Bridging long peripheral nerve gaps
    Project Number: (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: Georgia Research Alliance
    Goal: Develop and test an oriented nanofiber scaffold to bridge a long (35-50mm) peripheral nerve gap.
  • Title: Early breast cancer detection and therapy monitoring by new methods of MR imaging
    Project Number: CA90398(PI: Ruth Keri) Source: NIH/NCI
    Goal: Develop nano-scale liposomal contrast agents for early detection of tumors by passive targeting.
  • Title: Lipid microtubule-mediated drug delivery for the treatment of spinal cord injury
    Project Number: (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: Coulter translational/clinical research seed grant
    Goal: Increase axonal regeneration and enhance functional recovery following spinal cord injury via a localized and controlled release of reagents that block the production of axon growth inhibitory proteins.
  • Title: Hydrogel Scaffolds for Nerve Repair
    Project Number: BES 9809581 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: National Science Foundation
    Goal: Develop hydrogel scaffolds for peripheral nerve repair.
  • Title: Engineered 3D substrates of Nerve Regeneration
    Project Number: RG98-0159 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: The Whitaker Foundation
    Goal: Test 3D hydrogels ability to support 3D Neurite outgrowth from DRGs, and test them in vivo using a rodent model.
  • Title: CAREER: A Novel Microtubular Gene Delivery System for Proliferative Vascular
    Project Number: BES 9874631 (PI: Bellamkonda)
    Source: National Science Foundation
    Goal: Develop novel gene delivery systems for perivascular delivery of agents to treat proliferative vascular disorders.
  • Title: A Novel Multiple Ligand Approach to Targeting Tumors
    Project Number: NSF 0201891 (PI:Bellamkonda)
    Source: National Science Foundation
    Goal: Develop new targeting schemes to increase the specificity of liposomal localization to gliomas of the brain.

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