Nitin Yadav

Associate Professor, GSP, VSP

nyadav@gitam.edu | | | |

Dr. Nitin Yadav is a young scientist with experience at IIT Delhi, ICGEB Delhi, C-CAMP Bangalore, and MVDP ICGEB. His research focuses on biomedical science, specializing in nano-delivery systems for cancer therapy, tissue engineering, and stabilized peptide-based antimicrobial agents. With a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from ICGEB, he secured BIRAC, DBT funding for developing antimicrobial peptides. His work advances understanding and creates new therapeutic approaches for health challenges

Research Publications
  • Yadav, Nitin, Utkarsh Kumar, Purandhi Roopmani, Uma Maheswari Krishnan, Swaminathan Sethuraman, Meenakshi K. Chauhan, and Virander S. Chauhan. "Ultrashort Peptide-Based Hydrogel for the Healing of Critical Bone Defects in Rabbits." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14, no. 48 (2022): 54111-54126.
  • Yadav, Nitin, Utkarsh Kumar, and Virander Singh Chauhan. "Conformationally restricted, dipeptide-based, self-assembled nanoparticles for efficient vancomycin delivery." Nanomedicine 0 (2022).
  • Yadav, Nitin, Meenakshi K. Chauhan, and Virander S. Chauhan. "Short to ultrashort peptide-based hydrogels as a platform for biomedical applications." Biomaterials science 8, no. 1 (2020): 84-100.
  • Thota, Chaitanya Kumar, Nitin Yadav, and Virander Singh Chauhan. "A novel highly stable and injectable hydrogel based on a conformationally restricted ultrashort peptide." Scientific Reports 6, no. 1 (2016): 31167.
  • Varshney, Aditi, Jiban J. Panda, Avishek K. Singh, Nitin Yadav, Chhagan Bihari, Subhrajit Biswas, Shiv K. Sarin, and Virander S. Chauhan. "Targeted delivery of microRNA‐199a‐3p using self‐assembled dipeptide nanoparticles efficiently reduces hepatocellular carcinoma in mice." Hepatology 67, no. 4 (2018): 1392-1407.
Expertise
  • Nanotechnology, particularly targeted nano-delivery platforms
  • Peptide chemistry: design, synthesis and characterization
  • Protein chemistry, especially biopharmaceuticals
  • Tissue engineering: 3D culture platforms
  • Malaria vaccine development and delivery platforms
Nitin Yadav