Dr. Raghavendra Mundargi
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
50 Nanyang Avenue
Singapore 639798
email: RCMundargi@ntu.edu.sg
Biography
Dr.Raghavendra Mundargi has done his Ph.D., specialized in “Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems” from Karnatak University, India in 2007. Later he was associated with Reliance Life Sciences, India as Sr. Research Scientist till July 2011 and then joined School of Materials Science and Engineering as post doctoral researcher in August 2011.
Research Interests
His research work is focused on Formulation, Evaluation of Drug Eluting Balloons in Ex-vivo bioreactor and In-vivo studies in porcine and rabbit model. Formulation of particulate drug delivery systems;Polyplex and lipoplexes as non-viral vectors for gene therapy in glaucoma. Encapsulation of drugs, proteins and siRNA into nanoparticles for the treatment of ocular diseases. Specialization in microencapsulation of drugs, proteins, oral dosage forms, in-vitro, in-vivo, proof of concept studies and development of formulations involving oral, periodontal, colon and transdermal drug delivery systems.