Katti V. Kattesh
Professor of Physics & Radiology
UMC


    
Office: 426 Physics Building
Phone: 573-882-5656/3319
E-mail: kattik@health.missouri.edu
Webpage: http://web.missouri.edu/~kattik/katti/katti.htm
Biographical Information: Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1984

Research Interests

•    Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Nanomedicine
•    Metals/Organomatallics In the Development of Cancer Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents
•    Biomedical Optical Imaging
•    New Approaches to Cancer Therapy
•    New Biomaterials for use in Surgical and Non-surgical Wound Healing applications
•    Fundamental Aspects of Structure of Water and Water-Alcohol Binary Mixtures.

Selected Publications

Vijaya Kattumuri, Kavita Katti, Sharanya Bhaskaran, Evan J. Boote, Stan W. Casteel, Genevieve M. Fent, David J. Robertson, Meera Chandrasekhar, Raghuraman Kannan and Kattesh V. Katti, Naturally Occuring Gum Arabic as a Phyto Construct for the Stabilization of Gold Nanoparticles:  In Vivo Pharmacokinetics and X-ray Contrast Imaging Studies, Small, Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 333 – 341, 2007

V. Kattumuri, M. Chandrasekhar, and S. Guha, K. Raghuraman , K. V. Katti, K. Ghosh and R. J. Patel, Agarose-stabilized gold nanoparticles for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic detection of DNA nucleosides, Appl. Phys. Lett, 88, 153114, 2006.  

K. Raghuraman, Rahing V, Cutler C, Pandrapragada R, Katti K.K, Vijaya Kattumuri, J. David Robertson, Stan J. Casteel, Silvia Jurisson, Charles Smith, Evan Boote, and Katti, K. V., Nanocompatible Chemistry toward Fabrication of Target-Specific Gold Nanoparticles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 11342-11343, 2006.  

K. V. Katti, K. Raghuraman, Rahing V, Cutler C, Pandrapragada R, Katti K.K, Vijaya Kattumuri, J. David Robertson, Stan J. Casteel, Silvia Jurisson, Evan Boote, Hybrid Nanoparticles In Molecular Imaging and Therapy, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, 56, 23-34, 2006

N. Pillarsetty, K. Raghuraman, C. Barnes, K. V. Katti, Design, Synthesis and Chemistry of Sterically Non-Demanding Primary Bis-Phosphines, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 127, 331-336, 2005.  

K. Raghuraman, N. Pillarsetty, K. R. Prabhu, K. K. Katti and K. V. Katti, Unprecedented rhodium-mediated catalytic transfer hydrogenation of a phosphonate functionalized olefin in ecofriendly media, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 357, 2933-2938, 2004.