Paras N. Prasad, PhD

428 Natural Science Complex
(716) 645-4148
pnprasad@buffalo.edu
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• BSc, Bihar University, India – 1964
• MSc, Bihar University, India – 1966
• PhD, University of Pennsylvania – 1971
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan – 1971-74

Condensed Matter Experiment

Preparation, processing and theoretical modeling of nanostructured photonic materials, Biophotonics, Nonlinear optical processes

Photonics is emerging as a multidisciplinary new frontier of science and technology and is capturing the imagination of scientists and engineers worldwide because of its potential applications to many areas of present and future information and image processing technologies. Photonics is the analog of electronics in that it describes the technology in which photons instead ofelectrons are used to acquire, store, transmit, and process information. Nonlinear optics provides key operational functions needed for the implementation of photonics technology. See also the UB Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics website.

Our Photonics Research Laboratory is engaged in multidisciplinary research in the field of photonics and nonlinear optics. It has excellent research facilities for a comprehensive multidisciplinary research program and features state-of-the-art instrumentation.

• Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, 2016
• SPIE Gold Medal, 2016
• President's Medal, 2016
• Inventor of the Year in Life Sciences Award by the Technical Council of the Niagara Frontier, 2008, 2003
  
• Fellow of SPIE, 2005
• Scientific American’s Top 50, 2005
• Guggenheim fellowship, 1997
• American Physical Society, 1995
• Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 1994

• “A Chemically Labelled Cytotoxic Agent: Two-Photon Fluorophore for Optical Tracking of Cellular Pathway inChemotherapy,” X. Wang, L. J. Krebs, M. Al-Nuri, H. E. Pudavar, S. Ghosal, C. Liebow, A. A. Nagy, A. V. Schally and P. N.Prasad, Natl. Acad. Sci., 96, 11081-11084 (1999).
• “Observation of Stimulated Emission by Direct Three-Photon Excitation,” G. S. He, P. P. Markowicz, T.-C. Lin and P. N.Prasad, Nature, 415, 767-770 (2002).
• “Nanochemistry: Synthesis and Characterization of Multifunctional Nanoclinics for Biological Applications,” L. Levy, Y.Sahoo, K. S. Kim, E. Bergey and P. N. Prasad, Mater., 14, 3715-3721 (2002).
• “Ceramic-Based Nanoparticles Entrapping Water-Insoluble Photosensitizing Anticancer Drugs: A Novel Drug-CarrierSystem for Photodynamic Therapy,” I. Roy, T. Y. Ohulchanskyy, H. E. Pudavar, E. J. Bergey, A. R. Oseroff, J. Morgan, T. J.Dougherty and P. N. Prasad, Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 7860-7865 (2003).
• “Organically Modified Silica Nanoparticles – A Novel Non-Viral Vector for In Vivo Gene Delivery and Expression in theBrain,” D. J. Bharali, I. Klejbor, E. K. Stachowiak, P. Dutta, I. Roy, N. Kaur, E. J. Bergey, P. N. Prasad and M. K. Stachowiak,Natl. Acad. Sci., 102, 11539-11544 (2005).
• “New Method for Delivering a Hydrophobic Drug for Photodynamic Therapy Using Pure Nanocrystal Form of the Drug,”K. Baba, H. E. Pudavar, I. Roy, T. Y. Ohulchanskyy, Y. Chen, R. K. Pandey and P. N. Prasad, Molecular Pharmaceutics,4(2), 289-297 (2007).
• “Imaging Pancreatic Cancer Using Surface-Functionalized Quantum Dots,” J. Qian, K.-T. Yong, I. Roy, T. Y. Ohulchanskyy,E. J. Bergey, H. H. Lee, K. M. Tramposch, S. He, A. Maitra and P. N. Prasad, Phys. Chem. B, 111(25), 6969-6972 (2007).
• “Multiplex Imaging of Pancreatic Cancer Cells Using Functionalized Quantum Rods,” K.-T. Yong. I. Roy, H. E. Pudavar E. J.Bergey, K. M. Tramposch, M. T. Swihart and P. N. Prasad, Advanced Materials, 20(8), 1412-1417 (2008).
• “High Contrast in Vitro and in Vivo Photoluminescence Bioimaging Using Near Infrared to Near Infrared Up-Conversionin Tm3+ and Yb3+ Doped Fluoride Nanophosphors,” M. Nyk, R. Kumar, T. Y. Ohulchanskyy, E. J. Bergey and P. N. Prasad,Nano Lett., 8(11) 3834-3838 (2008).

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