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Dr. Divya Bharti Rai

Designation : Senior Project Associate

Qualification : M.Phil-Ph.D. Nano Sciences, Central University of Gujarat

Department/Project : INSPIRE- MANAK

Location : Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Email : divyab@nifindia.org

Dr. Divya Bharti Rai has completed PhD and MPhil degrees in Nano Sciences from Central University of Gujarat where she has developedanticancer and antimicrobial nanoformulations. She has published several articles and book chapterswith a cumulative impact factor of 25 and h-index at 7.She has completed graduation and post-graduation in Biochemistry. She is currently working as Senior Project Associate. She is currently working in the INSPIRE–MANAK team and holding the responsibility to liaising with the functionaries for implementation of the scheme and organizing awareness workshops to sensitize the stakeholders.She is also holding the responsibility to perform as a jury member in various level of the scheme.

Publications

DB Rai, R Solanki, K Medicherla, S Patel, D Pooja, H Kulhari. (2024).Designing of fucosylated dendrimers as a biocompatible carrier for the targeted delivery of chrysin to human lung cancer cells. Next Materials, 5, 100257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxmate.2024.100257


DB Rai, R Solanki, K Medicherla, S Patel, D Pooja, H Kulhari. (2023). Fucosylated dendrimer mediated enhancement of solubility, stability and biological activity of genistein. Food Biosciences, 56, 5, 103200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fbio.2023.103200


DB Rai, K Medicherla, D Pooja, H Kulhari. (2023). Dendrimer-Mediated Delivery of Anticancer Drugs for Colon Cancer Treatment. Pharmaceutics, 15, 3,806. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15030801


AK Jangid, H Agarwal, DB Rai, P Jain, UCS Yadav, D Pooja, H Kulhari.(2020). Baicalin encapsulating lipid-surfactant conjugate based nanomicelles: Preparation, characterization and anticancer activity. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 233, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2020.104978


N Gupta, DB Rai, AK Jangid; H Kulhari.(2018). A Review of Theranostics Applications and Toxicities of Carbon Nanomaterials. Current Drug Metabolism, 20, 6, 506-532. DOI: 10.2174/1389200219666180925094515


Book Chapter

DB Rai, K Medicherla, D Pooja, H Kulhari. Dendrimers-Mediated Delivery of Phytoconstituents. (2024). In Nanotechnology Based Delivery of Phytoconstituents and Cosmeceuticals, D Pooja, H Kulhari, Springer, 265–303. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-5314-1_9


DB Rai, D Pooja, H Kulhari. Functionalisation of Dendrimers. (2021).In Dendrimersin Nanomedicine,N K Mehra and K Jain. Taylor & Francis,123-145. DOI:10.1201/9781003029915-7


DB Rai, D Pooja, H Kulhari. (2020). Dendrimers in gene delivery. In Pharmaceutical Applications of Dendrimers,ASChauhan and H Kulhari,Elsevier,211-231.DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-814527-2.00009-3


DB Rai, NGupta,DPooja,HKulhari.(2020).Dendrimersfordiagnosticapplications.In Pharmaceutical Applications of Dendrimers, AS Chauhan and H Kulhari, Elsevier,291-324.DOI: 10.3390/molecules25173982


N Gupta, DB Rai, AK Jangid,H Kulhari.(2019).Use of nano technology in antimicrobial therapy.In Methods in Microbiology,Elsevier,143-172.DOI: 10.1016/bs.mim.2019.04.004


N Gupta, DB Rai, AKJangid, H Kulhari. (2018). Nanomaterials-Based siRNA Delivery:Routes of Administration, Hurdles and Role of Nanocarriers. In Nanotechnology inModern Animal Biotechnology. Sanjay Singh and Pawan Maurya. Springer,67-114.DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6004-6_3