Sonal Deshpande

Education

• Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (India), 2018

Positions

• Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Publications

• Tang NC, Su JC, Shmidov Y, Kelly G, Deshpande S, Sirohi P, et al. Synthetic intrinsically disordered protein fusion tags that enhance protein solubility. Nature communications. 2024 May;15(1):3727.
• Deshpande S, Yang Y, Zauscher S, Chilkoti A. Enzymatic Synthesis of Aptamer-Polynucleotide Nanoparticles with High Anticancer Drug Loading for Targeted Delivery. Biomacromolecules. 2024 Jan;25(1):155–64.
• Saha S, Banskota S, Liu J, Zakharov N, Dzuricky M, Li X, et al. Genetically Engineered Nanoparticles of Asymmetric Triblock Polypeptide with a Platinum(IV) Cargo Outperforms a Platinum(II) Analog and Free Drug in a Murine Cancer Model. Nano Lett. 2022 Jul 27;22(14):5898–908.
• Yang Y, Lu Q, Huang C-M, Qian H, Zhang Y, Deshpande S, et al. Programmable Site-Specific Functionalization of DNA Origami with Polynucleotide Brushes. Angewandte Chemie (International ed in English). 2021 Oct;60(43):23241–7.
• Deshpande S, Yang Y, Chilkoti A, Zauscher S. Enzymatic synthesis and modification of high molecular weight DNA using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase. In 2019. p. 163–88.
• Deshpande S, Patil S, Singh N. Enhancing Gene-Knockdown Efficiency of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Nanogels. ACS Omega. 2018 Jul 31;3(7):8042–9.
• Deshpande S, Singh N. Probing the nanoparticle-AGO2 interaction for enhanced gene knockdown. Soft matter. 2018 May;14(20):4169–77.
• Deshpande S, Sharma S, Koul V, Singh N. Core-shell nanoparticles as an efficient, sustained, and triggered drug-delivery system. ACS Omega. 2017 Oct 31;2(10):6455–63.
• Deshpande S, Singh N. Influence of Cubosome Surface Architecture on Its Cellular Uptake Mechanism. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. 2017 Apr;33(14):3509–16.
• Chandra A, Deshpande S, Shinde DB, Pillai VK, Singh N. Mitigating the cytotoxicity of graphene quantum dots and enhancing their applications in bioimaging and drug delivery. ACS Macro Letters. 2014 Oct 21;3(10):1064–8.
• Deshpande S, Venugopal E, Ramagiri S, Bellare JR, Kumaraswamy G, Singh N. Enhancing cubosome functionality by coating with a single layer of poly-ε-lysine. ACS applied materials & interfaces. 2014 Oct;6(19):17126–33.