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Nalinikanth Kotagiri

Assoc Professor

Associate Professor

Education/Credentials
  • Ph.D: University of Arkansas (Cell & Molecular Biology)
  • M.B,B.S: Andhra Medical College (General Medicine)
Contact Information

Peer Reviewed Publications

Siddiqui, Nabil A; Ventrola, Alec J; Hartman, Alexandra R; Konare, Tohonne; Kamble, Nitin S; Thomas, Shindu C; Madaan, Tushar; Kharofa, Jordan; Sertorio, Mathieu G; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth 2023. An Engineered Probiotic Platform for Cancer Epitope-Independent Targeted Radionuclide Therapy of Solid Tumors. Advanced healthcare materials, , e2202870

Thomas, Shindu; Kim, Jin-Woo; Pauletti, Giovanni; Hassett, Daniel; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth 2022. Exosomes: Biological Pharmaceutical Nanovectors for Theranostics Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., 9 ,

Bogue, Amy L; Panmanee, Warunya; McDaniel, Cameron T; Mortensen, Joel E; Kamau, Edwin; Actis, Luis A; Johannigman, Jay A; Schurr, Michael J; Satish, Latha; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Hassett, Daniel J 2021. AB569, a non-toxic combination of acidified nitrite and EDTA, is effective at killing the notorious Iraq/Afghanistan combat wound pathogens, multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Acinetobacter spp. PloS one, 16 3, e0247513

Hassett, Daniel J; Kovall, Rhett A; Schurr, Michael J; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Kumari, Harshita; Satish, Latha 2021. The Bactericidal Tandem Drug, AB569: How to Eradicate Antibiotic-Resistant Biofilm Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Multiple Disease Settings Including Cystic Fibrosis, Burns/Wounds and Urinary Tract Infections. Frontiers in microbiology, 12 , 639362

Siddiqui, Nabil A; Houson, Hailey A; Kamble, Nitin S; Blanco, Jose R; O'Donnell, Robert E; Hassett, Daniel J; Lapi, Suzanne E; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth 2021. Leveraging copper import by yersiniabactin siderophore system for targeted PET imaging of bacteria. JCI insight, 6 10,

Singaravelu, Indulekha; Spitz, Henry; Mahoney, Mary; Dong, Zhongyun; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth 2021. Anti-Androgen Therapy Radiosensitizes Androgen Receptor Positive Cancers to F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, ,

Thomas, Shindu C; Kim, Jin-Woo; Pauletti, Giovanni M; Hassett, Daniel J; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth 2021. Exosomes: Biological Pharmaceutical Nanovectors for Theranostics. Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 9 , 808614

Thomas, Shindu C; Madaan, Tushar; Kamble, Nitin S; Siddiqui, Nabil A; Pauletti, Giovanni M; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth 2021. Engineered Bacteria Enhance Immunotherapy and Targeted Therapy through Stromal Remodeling of Tumors. Advanced healthcare materials, , e2101487

Lane, Daniel D; Black, Kvar C L; Raliya, Ramesh; Reed, Nathan; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Gilson, Rebecca; Tang, Rui; Biswas, Pratim; Achilefu, Samuel 2020. Effects of core titanium crystal dimension and crystal phase on ROS generation and tumour accumulation of transferrin coated titanium dioxide nanoaggregates. RSC advances, 10 40, 23759-23766

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Cooper, Matthew L.; Rettig, Michael; Egbulefu, Christopher; Prior, Julie; Cui, Grace; Karmakar, Partha; Zhou, Mingzhou; Yang, Xiaoxia; Sudlow, Gail; Marsala, Lynne; Chanswangphuwana, Chantiya; Lu, Lan; Habimana-Griffin, LeMoyne; Shokeen, Monica; Xu, Xinming; Weilbaecher, Katherine; Tomasson, Michael; Lanza, Gregory; DiPersio, John F.; Achilefu, Samuel 2018. Radionuclides transform chemotherapeutics into phototherapeutics for precise treatment of disseminated cancer Nature Communications, 9 1 , 275

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Cooper, Matthew L; Rettig, Michael; Egbulefu, Christopher; Prior, Julie; Cui, Grace; Karmakar, Partha; Zhou, Mingzhou; Yang, Xiaoxia; Sudlow, Gail; Marsala, Lynne; Chanswangphuwana, Chantiya; Lu, Lan; Habimana-Griffin, LeMoyne; Shokeen, Monica; Xu, Xinming; Weilbaecher, Katherine; Tomasson, Michael; Lanza, Gregory; DiPersio, John F; Achilefu, Samuel 2018. Radionuclides transform chemotherapeutics into phototherapeutics for precise treatment of disseminated cancer. Nature communications, 9 1, 275

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Laforest, Richard; Achilefu, Samuel 2018. Reply to 'Is Cherenkov luminescence bright enough for photodynamic therapy?' Nature nanotechnology, 13 5, 354-355

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Sakon, Joshua; Han, Haewook; Zharov, Vladimir P; Kim, Jin-Woo 2016. Fluorescent ampicillin analogues as multifunctional disguising agents against opsonization. Nanoscale, 8 25, 12658-67

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Sudlow, Gail P; Akers, Walter J; Achilefu, Samuel 2015. Breaking the depth dependency of phototherapy with Cerenkov radiation and low-radiance-responsive nanophotosensitizers. Nature nanotechnology, 10 4, 370-9

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Kim, Jin-Woo 2014. Stealth nanotubes: strategies of shielding carbon nanotubes to evade opsonization and improve biodistribution. International journal of nanomedicine, 9 Suppl 1 , 85-105

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Li, Zhenyu; Xu, Xiaoxiao; Mondal, Suman; Nehorai, Arye; Achilefu, Samuel 2014. Antibody quantum dot conjugates developed via copper-free click chemistry for rapid analysis of biological samples using a microfluidic microsphere array system. Bioconjugate chemistry, 25 7, 1272-81

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Lee, Ju Seok; Kim, Jin-Woo 2013. Selective pathogen targeting and macrophage evading carbon nanotubes through dextran sulfate coating and PEGylation for photothermal theranostics. Journal of biomedical nanotechnology, 9 6, 1008-16

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Niedzwiedzki, Dariusz M; Ohara, Kohtaro; Achilefu, Samuel 2013. Activatable probes based on distance-dependent luminescence associated with Cerenkov radiation. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 52 30, 7756-60

Xu, Xiaoxiao; Sarder, Pinaki; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Achilefu, Samuel; Nehorai, Arye 2013. Performance analysis and design of position-encoded microsphere arrays using the Ziv-Zakai bound. IEEE transactions on nanobioscience, 12 1, 29-40

Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Kim, Jin-Woo 2010. Carbon nanotubes fed on "carbs": coating of single-walled carbon nanotubes by dextran sulfate. Macromolecular bioscience, 10 3, 231-8

Kim, Jin-Woo; Shashkov, Evgeny V; Galanzha, Ekaterina I; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Zharov, Vladimir P 2007. Photothermal antimicrobial nanotherapy and nanodiagnostics with self-assembling carbon nanotube clusters. Lasers in surgery and medicine, 39 7, 622-34

Kim, Jin-Woo; Kotagiri, Nalinikanth; Kim, Jeong-Hwan; Deaton, Russell 2006. In situ fluorescence microscopy visualization and characterization of nanometer-scale carbon nanotubes labeled with 1-pyrenebutanoic acid, succinimidyl ester Appl. Phys. Lett., 88 , 213110