Experience:

• A Cardio-vascular and Thoracic surgeon with a clinical career of over 30 years and research career of 15 years in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine along with stem cell technology
• Work in India and abroad, has several patents and has published numerous articles in medical and scientific research journals
• Adjunct Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, guiding the doctoral scholars and managing research projects funded by Department of Bio-Technology, Indian Ministry of Science & Technology
• A founding member of five Bio-medical Research & Development project facilities
• Director of Bio-engineering Division with SynkroMax Biotech Pvt. Ltd. where she developed (with IIT, Madras) India's first 'Tissue engineered Pericardial Patch' designed to repair the body's natural organs and functions like natural tissue

Team Members:

Publications:

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=IEiyXn8AAAAJ&hl=en

Experience:

• Radiation & Photochemical Scientist with a research career of about 40 years. Former Associate Director (D) Chemistry Group and Head, Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.
• Member of Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences, and Materials Research Society of India
• Studied free radical reactions at the surface of homogeneous and heterogeneous surfaces using fast radiation and laser spectrophotometric techniques.
• Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) technique was exploited for the detection of fungicide, toxic heavy metals, hypoxiaand adulteration of milk and drugs.
• Using SERS genomic DNA (gDNA) of Brassicaceae plant species, namely, Brassica juncea and Arabidopsis thaliana were shown to be different probably due to the difference in their genome length and biochemical variability.
• Synthesis of pH sensitive gold nanoaprticles (NPs) using L-tryptophan showed potential applications in radio-sensitization.
• Use of un-laminated Gafchromic EBT3 film dosimeter for quantification of dose enhancement over silver NPs-embedded alginate film for NPs-aided radiotherapy is possible for low x-ray energy irradiation.
• Platinum metal deposited RGO-TiO2 composite show the high efficiency for the degradation and mineralization of pharmaceutical pollutant β-blocker propranolol. It was shown that by using copper NPs the reaction time under normal conditions for "Click reaction" can be reduced drastically for azide-alkyne cyclo addition which plays a key role in development of pharmaceuticals.
• Fabrication of a novel electro chemical immuno-probe for dual mode of sensing for recognition of SARS-CoV2 and secondary antibodies.
• Current interest is to explore the causation of congenital heart defects (CHDs) and the role of epigenetic, metabolomics, etc. in the mechanistic pathways of CHDs.
• Published 173 papers in reputed and high-impact international journals resulting in a total number of Scopus citations of more than 3900 with h-index 33.
• Received Young Investigator awards by International Congress of Radiation Research in 1991, Toronto, Canada and 1999, Dublin, Ireland. Also Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences.
• Guided/Co-guided 12 PhD/MSc students under Homi Bhabha National institute, Mumbai and Pune University.

Team Members:

Publications:

1. Joshi R, GoswamiD, Hole A, Murthy PR , BorgohainS, WadkeR, Krishna CM, Kapoor S. Raman spectroscopic analysis of serum samples inCongenital Heart Diseases. Abstract submitted to IX International Conference on Perspectives in Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICOPVS-2022).

2. KakadeNR, Das A , Kumar R, Sharma SD, Chadha R , MaitiN , Kapoor S. Application of unlaminated EBT3 film dosimeter for quantification of dose enhancement using silver nanoparticle-embedded alginate film. Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express, 8 (2022) 035014

3. Chadha R, Das A, Debnath AK., Kapoor S, Maiti N. 2-thiazoline-2-thiol functionalized gold nanoparticles for detection of heavy metals, Hg(II) and Pb(II) and probing their competitive surface reactivity: A colorimetric, surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopic (XPS) study. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects615 (2021) 126279

4. Chadha R, Das A, Kapoor S, Maiti N. Surface-induced dimerization of 2-thiazoline-2-thiol on silver and gold nanoparticles: A surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and density functional theoretical (DFT) study. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 322 (2021) 114536

5. Markad GB, Padma N, Chadha R, Gupta KC, Rajarajan AK, Deb P, Kapoor S. Mutual influence on aggregation and magnetic properties of graphene oxide and copper phthalocyanine throughnon-covalent, charge transfer interaction. Applied Surface Science 505 (2020) 144624

6. Mirajkar S., Dhayagude AC, Maiti N, Suprasanna P, Kapoor S, Distinguishing Genomic DNA of Brassica juncea and Arabidopsis thaliana using surface enhanced Raman scattering. J. Raman Spectrosc. 2019; 1-15

7. Das A, Maiti N,Dhayagude AC, Pathak, AK, Chadha, R, Neogy RS, Kapoor S. A study of Lightinduced surface reactions of sildenafil citrate on hybrid AgCl/Ag nanoparticle dimers by surface enhanced Raman scattering and pulse radiolysis techniques.Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects582 (2019) 123864

8. Das A, Dhayagude AC, Maiti N, ChadhaR, Ballal A, KapoorS. Ultra-trace level qualitative andquantitative detection of sildenafil citrate by surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) based fingerprinting method.Asian J. Physics 28 (2019) 227

9. Chadha, R, Kukreja, D, Maiti N, Das A, Ballal A, Kapoor S. Chlorogenic acid assisted green synthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles and their applications. G. P. Globalize Research Journal of Chemistry 3 (2019) 62-71

10. Das A, Chadha, R, MaitiN, Neogy,KapoorS. In-situ reduction of gold nanoparticles in alginate film matrix for application in surface enhanced Raman scattering. G. P. Globalize Research3 (2019) 11-20

11. Dhayagude AC, Newase SK, Joshi, SS, KapadnisBP,KapoorS.Preparation of silver nanoparticles in the presence of polyoxometalates. Materials Science & Engineering C 94 (2019) 437-444

12. Dhayagude AC, Das A, Joshi, SS, Kapoor S.-Radiation Induced Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles in Aqueous Poly (N-vinylpyrrolidone) Solution. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects556 (2018) 148–156

13. Maiti N, MalkarVV, Mukherjee T,Kapoor S. Investigating the interaction of aminopolycarboxylic acid (APCA) ligands with silvernanoparticles: A Raman, surface- enhanced Raman and density functional theoreticalstudy. Journal of Molecular Structure 1156 (2018) 592-601

14. Shinde Y, WadhaiS, PonksheA, Kapoor S,Thakur P. Decoration of Pt on the metal free RGO-TiO2 composite photocatalyst for the enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and photocatalytic degradation of pharmaceutical pollutant β blocker. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy43 (2018) 4015-4027

15. Chadha R, DasA, Maiti N, Kapoor SUnderstanding the reaction mechanism of the reactivity of free radicals withgraphene oxide. Surfaces and Interfaces 9 (2017) 201–205

16. Edwin B, Amalanathan M, Chadha R, Das A, Maiti N, Kapoor S, JoeIH. Structure activity relationship, vibrational spectral investigation andmolecular docking analysis of anti- neuronal drug 4-(2-Aminoethyl)morpholine. Journal of Molecular Structure 1148 (2017) 459-470

17. Potangale M, Das A, Kapoor S,TiwariS. Effect of anion and alkyl chain length on the structure and interactions ofN-alkyl pyridinium ionic liquids. Journal of Molecular Liquids 240 (2017) 694–707

18. Benitta A, Kapoor S, SheelaCR, Isac-Sobana ,KumaranJTT. J Surface Enhanced Raman Spectra and Theoretical Study of an Organophosphate Malathion.Oriental Journal of Chemistry 33 (2017) 760-767

19. Praveen SG, Benitta A, Kapoor S, Jayakumar VS., Bansal C, Kumaran JTT. SERS study of two organophosphates: Dimethoate and methyl parathion. G P Globalize Research Journal of Chemistry 1 (2017) 72-78

20. Dhayagude AC, Nikama SV, Kapoor S, JoshiSS. Effect of electrolytic media on the photophysical properties andphotocatalytic activity of zinc oxide nanoparticles synthesized by simple electrochemical method. Journal of Molecular Liquids 232 (2017) 290–303

21. MarkadGB,Kapoor S, Haram SK, ThakurP. Metal Free, Carbon-TiO2 Based Composites for the Visible Light Photocatalysis. Solar Energy 144 (2017) 127–133

To be Communicated:
Joshi RO*; Kukshal P; Kumar A, Murthy PR, Chellappan S, Manohar K, Sathe Y, Guhathakurta S, Kapoor S*. Congenital Heart Defects and environmental factors: A snapshot of CHD cohort from a tertiary care centre in India.

Experience:

• A Cardio-vascular and Thoracic surgeon with a clinical career of over 25 years
• She has been working as Senior Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon at Sai Sanjeevani Hospitals for the past 4 years and is involved in various Research projects.
• She has worked as Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, UK
• Surgical trainer for Royal college of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
• Simulation Instructor trained at University of Bristol
• She has been involved in National and International Clinical and Bio Ethics Research in Cardiac Surgery and has various publications in International peer reviewed journals to her credit.
• She is on the editorial board of Journal of Paediatric Cardiology and reviewer for various International Journals.
• She has done multiple presentations in international conferences in Europe and Australia.

Team Members:

Publications:

1. Caputo M, Pike K, Baos S, et al. Heart 2019;105:455–464.
2. Dorobantu, D, Mahani A, Sharabiani M, Pandey R, Angelini G, Parry A, Tulloh R, Martin R, Stoica S. Primary repair versus surgical and transcatheter palliation in infants with tetralogy of Fallot. Heart. 2018;104(22):1864-1870.
3. Fiorentino F, Stickley J, Dorobantu D, Pandey R, Angelini G, Barron D, Stoica S. (2016). Early Reoperations in a 5-Year National Cohort of Pediatric Patients With Congenital Heart Disease. Ann Thorac Surg. 2016;101(4):1522-9.
4. Dorobantu D, Pandey R, Sharabiani M, Mahani A, Angelini G, Martin R, Stoica, Serban. (2016). Indications and results of systemic to pulmonary shunts: Results from a national database. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2016 ;49(6):1553-63.
5. Panda B, Pandey R, Ranger M, Anderson B, Karl T, Alphonso N. Ventricular Septal Defect Closure in a Child With Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Risk Factors and Management. Ann Thorac Surg. 2013;96(5):e125-6.
6. Pandey R, Ramakrishnan K, Gooi A, Karl T. Use of -Blockade and Levosimendan for Separation From Extracorporeal Life Support in an Infant With Postoperative Diastolic Dysfunction. World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery. 2013; 4:447-9. 10.1177/2150135113497974.
7. Raja SG, Atamanyuk I, Pandey RB, Kostolny M. Fenestration closure in a calcified ventricular septal defect patch. Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals. 2011;19(6):430-432.
8. Shahani R, Magotra RA, Khandeparkar J, et al. Head and Heart: Neuropsychological Reaction and Arterial Line Filtration during Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals. 1997;5(2):87-92.