Surya K. Mallapragada

Senior Scientists - Ames Laboratory - USDOE

3035 Sweeney Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-3020

Phone: (515) 294-7407
Fax: (515) 294-2689
suryakm@iastate.edu

Education

  • 1996 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
  • 1993 B. Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Honors and Awards

  • 2009 Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science
  • 2007 Big 12 Rising Star Award
  • 2006 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
  • 2006 Participant, National Academy of Engineering U.S. Frontiers of Eng. Symposium
  • 2002 Named to MIT's Technology Review’s “Top 100 Young Innovators” list
  • 2001 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award
  • 2001, 07 ISU Foundation Early and Mid-Career Excellence in Research Awards
  • 2000 NSF CAREER Award

Professional Appointments

  • 2006-07 Member, Defense Sciences Study Group
  • 2008-10 Member, NIH Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Study Section
  • 2004- Editorial Board, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology
  • 1999-2008 Review panelist, NSF BES, CTS, DMII, EEC, CBET

Selected Publications

  1. Prozorov, T., Mallapragada, S.K., Narasimhan, B., Nilsen-Hamilton, M., Williams, T. J., Bazylinski, D., Prozorov, R., and Canfield, P.C., “Protein-Mediated Synthesis of Superparamagnetic Magnetite Nanocrystals”, Adv. Func. Mater., 17, 951-57 (2007).
  2. Prozorov, R., Prozorov, T., Mallapragada, S.K., Narasimhan, B., Williams, T. J., Bazylinski, D., “Magnetic Irreversibility and Verwey Transition in Nano-crystalline Bacterial and Synthetic Magnetite”, Phys. Rev. B., 76, 054406 (2007).
  3. Prozorov, T., Wang, L., Palo, P., Nilsen-Hamilton-M, Jones, D., Orr, D., Mallapragada, S., Narasimhan, B., and Prozorov, R., “Cobalt Ferrite Nanocrystals: Outperforming Magnetotactic Bacteria”, ACS Nano, 1, 228-233 (2007).
  4. Torres, M. P., Mallapragada, S. K., and Narasimhan, B., “Protein Stabilization and Release from Novel Amphiphilic Polyanhydrides”, Biomaterials, 28, 108-116 (2007).
  5. Determan, M. D., Thiyagarajan, P. and Mallapragada, S.K., “Supramolecular Self-assembly of Multiblock Copolymers in Solution”, Langmuir, 22, 1469-1473 (2006).
  6. Agarwal, A., Unfer, R. C., and Mallapragada, S. K., “Novel Cationic Pentablock Copolymers as Non Viral Vectors for Gene Delivery”, J. Control. Rel. 103, 245-258 (2005).
  7. Vogel, B., Eidelman, N., Narasimhan, B. and Mallapragada, S.K., “Parallel Synthesis and Dissolution Testing of Polyanhydride Random Copolymers”, J. Comb. Chem., 7, 921-28 (2005).
  8. Enlow, D., Rawal, A., Kanapathipillai, M., Schmidt-Rohr, K., Mallapragada, S.K., Lo, C.T., Thiyagarajan, P., and Akinc, A., “Synthesis and Characterization of Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Templated Calcium Phosphate Nanocomposite Gels”, J. Mater. Chem., 17, 1570-78 (2007). Highlighted as a “hot” article.
  9. Baldwin, C., Bristol, D., Deaver, E., Hammerberg, B., Heath, C., Mallapragada, S., Naylor, G., Richardson, E., Wilson, J., "Biotechnology: Organ Transplantation", in Life Science Ethics, Comstock, G. (Ed.), Chap. 15, 310-313, Iowa State Press, Ames (2002).
  10. Glatz, C., Gonzalez, R. Huba, M., Mallapragada, S.K., Narasimhan, B., Reilly, P., Saunders, K., and Shanks, J. “Problem-Based Learning Biotechnology Courses in Chemical Engineering”, Biotechnol. Prog., 22, 173-178 (2006).