Ghanashyam S Acharya, Ph.D.
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Positions
- Associate Professor of Surgery
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Division of Trauma, Bariatric and Acute Care Surgery
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- Associate Professor
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Department of Ophthalmology
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Houston, Texas United States
- Adjunct Associate Professor
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Materials Science and Nanoengineering
Rice University
Houston, Texas United States
Addresses
- Alkek Building for Biomedical Research (Office)
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Room: R-512
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-3242
gacharya@bcm.edu
Education
- PhD from Indian Institute Of Science
- Bangalore, India
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at Birck Nanotechnology Center - Purdue University
- West Lafayette, IN, United States
- Nanomedicine, Bionanotechnology
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at Frontier Research System - RIKEN
- Tokyo, Japan
- Topochemical Design and Spatio-Temporal Function Materials
Honors & Awards
- JSPS Post Doctoral Research Fellowship
- Alkek Award for Experimental Therapeutics 2015
- Hamill Innovation Award 2016
Professional Interests
- Translational Nanomedicine
- Nanofabricated Drug Delivery Systems
- Ocular Drug Delivery
- Ocular Nanomedicine
Professional Statement
Dr. Acharya鈥檚 research program focuses on the development of translational nanomedicine by integrating nanofabrication, 3D-nanolithography, and controlled drug delivery strategies. He works at the interface of medicine, bioengineering, chemistry and pharmaceutics. He is currently working on developing controlled release nanowafer therapeutics, nanodrug delivery systems for wound healing and pain management, and theranostics for image-guided drug delivery. Dr. Acharya鈥檚 research program is funded by NIH, CPRIT, and Alkek award for the Development of Experimental Therapeutics.Websites
Selected Publications
- Crystal S. Shin, Fernando J. Cabrera, Richard Lee, John Kim, Remya Ammassam Veettil, Mahira Zaheer, Aparna Adumbumkulath, Kirti Mhatre, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Steven A. Curley, Bradford G. Scott, Ghanashyam Acharya "." Adv Mater. 2021;33:2003778 (1-13). Pubmed PMID:
- Marcano DC, Shin CS, Lee B, Isenhart LC, Liu X, Li F, Jester JV, Pflugfelder SC, Simpson J, Acharya G. "." Mol Pharmaceutics. 2016 Aug 29; Pubmed PMID:
- Yuan X, Marcano DC, Shin CS, Hua X, Isenhart LC, Pflugfelder SC, Acharya G "." ACS Nano. 2015;9(2):1749-1758. Pubmed PMID:
- Coursey TG, Henriksson JT, Marcano DC, Shin CS, Isenhart LC, Ahmed F, De Paiva CS, Pflugfelder SC, Acharya G, "." J. Control Release. 2015;213:168-174. Pubmed PMID:
- Shin CS, Marcano DC, Park K, Acharya G. "." Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1570:279-285. Pubmed PMID:
- Bian F, Shin CS, Wang C, Pflugfelder SC, Acharya G, De Paiva CS. "." Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016 Jun;57:3222-3300. Pubmed PMID:
- Fernandez-Moure JS, Van Eps JL, Rhudy JR, Cabrera FJ, Acharya GS, Tasciotti E, Sakamoto J, Nichols JE "." J Tissue Eng.. 2016 Feb;1;7:20417314156. Pubmed PMID:
- G. Acharya, C.S. Shin, M. McDermott, H. Mishra, H. Park, I.C. Kwon, K. Park. "." J. Control Release. 2010;144(3):314-319. Pubmed PMID:
- G. Acharya, C.S. Shin, K. Vedantham, M. McDermott, T. Rish, K. Hansen, Y. Fu, K. Park. "." J. Control Release. 2010;146(2):201-206. Pubmed PMID:
Projects
- Development of Ocular Drug Delivery Nanowafer Therapeutics
- Noninvasive Drug Delivery to the Retina
Memberships
- American Chemical Society
- Member
- ARVO
- Member
Funding
- Development of Ocular Drug Delivery Nanowafer Therapeutics - #1R01EY026950-01 Grant funding from NIH
- Noninvasive Microwafer Drug Delivery to Treat Retinoblastoma Grant funding from CPRIT
- Nanowafer Drug Delivery for Corneal Wound Healing Alkek Foundation-BCM
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