Haridas E. Pudavar, Ph.D.

Areas of Interest:

• Bio-Imaging

• Use of Conofocal/Multiphoton imaging techniques for studying cancer therapy drug delivery mechanisms, drug metabolism and protein-protein interactions. Various fluorescence imaging techniques such as Fluorescence Lifetime imaging (FLIM), Fluorescence Resonance Energy transfer (FRET), Fluorescence rcoveryafter photobleaching (FRAP) etc. are used for this study.

• Characterization of fluorescnt Nanoparticle for drug delivery schemes and Bioimaging

• Optical spectroscopic and imaging tools are used for studying various nanoparticles, including quantum dots, for bioimaging and drug delivery.

• Optical Spectroscopy

• Linear and Non-linear optical spectroscopy tools are used to study multiphoton processes and their applications .