Prabodhika Mallikaratchy, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry, Lehman College
  • Affiliate Faculty, Nanoscience Initiative

Affiliation

Department of Chemistry, Lehman College

Research Interests

Nucleic Acid Aptamers, In vitro evolution of artificial nucleic acid ligands, Therapeutic drug delivery, Cancer, Biochemical investigations of ligand receptor interactions.

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Job History

  • 2019 – Current: Associate Professor of Chemistry, Lehman College, Department of Chemistry, Bronx, NY
  • 2019 – Current: Associate Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. Programs in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY
  • 2017 – 2019: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. Programs in Biology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY
  • 2013 – 2019: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. Programs in Chemistry, Biochemistry, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY
  • 2012 – 2019: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Lehman College, Department of Chemistry, Bronx, NY
  • 2008 – 2012: Research Fellow with David Scheinberg, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Molecular Pharmacology Program, New York, NY
  • 2003 – 2008: Graduate Student with Weihong Tan, University of Florida, Department of Chemistry, Gainesville, FL
  • 2001 – 2003: Graduate Student with Thomas Junk, University of Louisiana, Department of Chemistry, Monroe, LA

Publications

H. Zumrut, Z. Yang, N. Williams, J.D.R. Arizala, S. Batool, S. Benner, and P.R. Mallikaratchy, Ligand Guided Selection (LIGS) with Artificially Expanded Genetic Information Systems against TCR-CD3ε, Biochemistry, 2020, 59, 4, 552-562.

H. Zumrut and P.R. Mallikaratchy, Discovery of artificial nucleic acid ligands against cell surface targets, ACS Applied Biomaterials, 2020, 2545–2552.