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Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar joined the Xu Group in January of 2009 as a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Science in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He received his Bachelor degree in Pharmacy from Osmania University in 2007.

In 2009, he worked as a Chem 115 teaching assistant under the supervisor of Dr. Wallach. As a Ph.D. student, he has excelled in graduate level courses including, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Biometry, Advanced Analytical Chemistry, Frontiers in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Applied Spectroscopy. For his research, he has been involved in studying the effect of silver nanoparticles on ovarian and brain cancer cells. Currently, he is working on studying nanotoxicity and establishing procedures for synthesizing gold and silver nanorods and magnetic nanoparticles.

A part from his research, he is in charge of equipment and chemical inventory for the Xu group.