Publications

Work done as Assistant Professor (since. 2022 till date)

25. Tejal Dube,# Puja Prasad,# Pragya Swami, Ankita Singh, Meenakshi Verma, Parul Tanwar, Shantanu Chowdhury* and Shalini Gupta "Impedance-based assay for pan-cancer early and rapid detection of cell-free DNA" bioRixv preprint (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.10.593096v1) #These authors contributed equally to this work.

24. Aryan Gautam, Ajay Gupta, Puja Prasad, Pijus Sasmal " Development of Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes of 2-Phenylbenzimidazole and Bipyridine Ligands for Selective Elimination of Gram-Positive Bacteria" Chem.: Asian J (accepted)

23. Deepika Chauhan, Puja Prasad, Pijus Sasmal "Organoiridium-Catalyzed Bioorthogonal Chemistry" Coord. Chem. Rev., 2024, 520, 216139.

22. Sonali Bera, Abishake Selvakumaraswamy, Biswa Prakash Nayak, Puja Prasad* "Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogens for Latent Fingerprint Detection" Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 8314-8338. This article is published as Highlight

21. Aryan Gautam, Ajay Gupta, Puja Prasad and Pijus K. Sasmal “AIE-active cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes for the detection of lipopolysaccharides and washfree imaging of bacteria” Dalton Trans., 2023,52, 7843-7853.

Postdoctoral work

20. Sujata Sangam, Simran Jindal, Aakanksha Agarwal, Basu Dev Banerjee, Puja Prasad*, Monalisa Mukherjee* “Graphene Quantum Dots-Porphyrin/Phthalocyanine multifunctional hybrid systems: From interfacial dialogue to applications”. Biomater. Sci., 2022, 10, 1647-1679. (Impact factor: 7.59) * indicates Corresponding Author

19. Neelu Singh, Ajay Gupta, Puja Prasad, Raj Kumar Sah, Arvind Singh, Sunil Kumar, Shailja Singh, Shalini Gupta, and Pijus K. Sasmal “Mitochondria-Targeted Photoactivatable Drug Delivery Platform: A Strategy for Real-Time Monitoring of Controlled Drug Release in the Phototherapeutic Window”. J. Med. Chem., 2021, 64, 17813–17823. (Impact factor: 8.039)

18. Neelu Singh, Ajay Gupta, Puja Prasad, Pritam Mahawar, Shalini Gupta and Pijus Sasmal “Iridium-Triggered Allylcarbamate Uncaging in Living Cells” Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 12644−12650 (Impact Factor: 5.436) This work was selected as Feature Article and ACS Editors’ Choice

17. Puja Prasad, Ajay Gupta and Pijus Sasmal “Aggregation-Induced Emission Active Metal Complexes: A Promising Strategy to Tackle Bacterial Infections” Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 174-186. (Impact factor= 6.065) Accepted as Feature Article and as journal cover page

16. Puja Prasad and Shalini Gupta “Nanobioconjugates: Weapons against Antibacterial Resistance” ACS Appl. Bio. Mater. 2020, 3, 8271–8285. (Impact factor: 4.7)

15. Puja Prasad+, Rohini Singh+, Saipriya Kamaraju, Venkataraman Sritharan and Shalini Gupta “ε-Polylysine nanoconjugates: Value-added antimicrobials for drug resistant bacteria” ACS Appl. Bio. Mater. 2020, 3, 6688–6696. (Impact factor=4.7) +These authors contributed equally to this work

14. Ajay Gupta+, Puja Prasad+, Shalini Gupta and Pijus K. Sasmal “Simultaneous Ultrasensitive Detection and Elimination of Drug-Resistant Bacteria by Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 35967–35976. (Impact factor=10.383) +These authors contributed equally to this work

13. Pramod Jagtap, Puja Prasad, Abhishek Pateria, Sachin D. Deshmukh and Shalini Gupta “A Single Step in vitro Bioassay Mimicking TLR4-LPS Pathway and the Role of MD2 and CD14 Coreceptors” Front. Immunol. 2020, 11, 5. (Impact Factor = 8.786)

12. Zichao Gu, Firas F. Al-Zubaydi, Derek Alder, Shike Li, Steven Johnson, Puja Prasad, Jennifer Holloway, Zoltan Szekely, Susan Love, Dayuan Gao and Patrick J. Sinko “Evaluation of Intraductal Administration of Polyethylene Glycol - Doxorubicin Conjugate Nanocarriers for the Treatment of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) -Like Lesions in Rats” J. Interdiscip. Nanomed. 2018, 3, 146-159.

11. Puja Prasad, Siddharth Sachan, Sneha Suman, Girish Swayambhu and Shalini Gupta “Regenerative Core−Shell Nanoparticles for Simultaneous Removal and Detection of Endotoxin” Langmuir 2018, 34, 7396-7403. (Impact Factor=4.33)

Ph.D work

10. Samya Banerjee, Ila Pant, Imran Khan, Puja Prasad, Akhtar Hussain, Paturu Kondaiah and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Remarkable enhancement in photocytotoxicity and hydrolytic stability of curcumin on binding to an oxovanadium(IV) moiety” Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 4108-4122. (Impact Factor = 4.569)

9. Samya Banerjee, Puja Prasad, Imran Khan, Akhtar Hussain, Paturu Kondaiah and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Mitochondria targeting Photocytotoxic Oxidovanadium(IV) Complexes of Curcumin and (Acridinyl)dipyridophenazine in Visible Light” Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2014, 640, 1195-1204. (Impact Factor = 1.414) A special issue dedicated to C. N. R. Rao on the occasion of his 80th birthday

8. Puja Prasad, Ila Pant, Imran Khan, Paturu Kondaiah and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Mitochondria Targeted Photo-induced Anticancer Activity of Oxido-vanadium(IV) Complexes of Curcumin in Visible Light” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2014, 2420-2431. (Impact Factor = 2.515)

7. Puja Prasad, Imran Khan, Paturu Kondaiah and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Mitochondria Targeting Oxidovanadium(IV) Complex as a Near-IR Light Photocytotoxic Agent” Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 17445–17455. (Impact Factor = 5.05)

6. Puja Prasad, Imran Khan, Pijus K. Sasmal, Debasis Koley, Paturu Kondaiah and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Planar triazinium cations from vanadyl-mediated ring cyclizations: the thiazole species for efficient nuclear staining and photocytotoxicity” Dalton Trans. 2013, 42, 4436-4449. (Impact Factor = 4.569)

5. Samya Banerjee, Puja Prasad, Akhtar Hussain, Imran Khan, Paturu Kondaiah and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Remarkable photocytotoxicity of curcumin in HeLa cells in visible light and arresting its degradation on oxovanadium(IV) complex formation” Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 7702-7704. (Impact Factor = 6.222)

4. Samya Banerjee, Akhtar Hussain, Puja Prasad, Imran Khan, Bhabatosh Banik, Paturu Kondaiah and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Photocytotoxic Oxovanadium(IV) Complexes of Ploypyridyl Ligands Showing DNA Cleavage Activity in Near-IR Light” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 3899-3908. (Impact Factor = 2.524)

3. Puja Prasad, Imran Khan, Pijus K. Sasmal, Debasis Koley, Paturu Kondaiah and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Planar triazinium cations from VO2+-assisted ring cyclizations: remarkably efficient thiazole species for nuclear staining, PDT and anaerobic photocleavage of DNA” Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 3954-3956. (Impact Factor = 6.065)

2. Puja Prasad, Pijus K. Sasmal, Imran Khan, Paturu Kondaiah and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Schiff base oxovanadium(IV) complexes of phenanthroline bases showing DNA photocleavage activity at near- IR light and photocytotoxicity” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2011, 372, 79-87. (Impact Factor = 2.545) Special issue dedicated to Prof. S. S. Krishnamurthy on the occasion of his 70th birthday)

1. Puja Prasad, Pijus K. Sasmal, Ritankar Majumdar, Rajan R. Dighe and Akhil R. Chakravarty “Photocytotoxicity and near-IR light DNA cleavage activity of oxovanadium(IV) Schiff base complexes having phenanthroline bases” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2010, 363, 2743-2751. (Impact Factor = 2.545). Special issue dedicated to Prof. Animesh Chakravorty on the occasion of his 75th birthday