Department of Biotechnology | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai

Shantanu Pradhan

Assistant Professor

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Ph.D.,  Auburn University, Alabama,USA

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Block 2, BT 205

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044 2257 4125

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spradhan[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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Lab: Block 2, BT 204A

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Lab: 044 2257 8947

  • Biomaterials, Hydrogels, and Synthetic Scaffolds
  • In vitro Modeling of Cellular Microenvironments
  • Engineering Cancer, Metastasis, and Tumor Angiogenesis
  • Microfluidic On-chip Technologies
  • Biofabrication Technologies

  1. S Pradhan, JH Slater (2019). "Tunable hydrogels for controlling phenotypic cancer cell states to model breast cancer dormancy and reactivation", Biomaterials, 215, pp. 119177, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.04.022.
  2. Ramya Dhandapani, Kadambari Sathyanarayanan, Shantanu Pradhan (2025). "Translating Structural Hierarchy and Mechanobiology of Bone in Microphysiological Systems", Small, pp. e09536, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202509536.
  3. WJ Seeto, Y Tian, S Pradhan, D Minond, EA Lipke (2022). "Droplet microfluidics-based fabrication of monodisperse poly (ethylene glycol)-fibrinogen breast cancer microspheres for automated drug screening applications", ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 8(9), pp. 3831-3841, DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.2c00285.
  4. WJ Seeto, Y Tian, S Pradhan, P Kerscher, EA Lipke (2019). "Rapid production of cell‐laden microspheres using a flexible microfluidic encapsulation platform", Small , 15(47), pp. 1902058, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201902058.
  5. S Pradhan, AM Smith, CJ Garson, I Hassani, WJ Seeto, K Pant, RD Arnold, B Prabhakarpandian, EA Lipke (2018). "A microvascularized tumor-mimetic platform for assessing anti-cancer drug efficacy", Scientific Reports, 8, pp. 3171, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-21075-9.
  6. S Pradhan, I Hassani, WJ Seeto, EA Lipke (2017). "PEG‐fibrinogen hydrogels for three‐dimensional breast cancer cell culture", Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 105(1), pp. 236-252, DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.35899.
  7. S Pradhan, JM Clary, D Seliktar, EA Lipke (2017). "A three-dimensional spheroidal cancer model based on PEG-fibrinogen hydrogel microspheres", Biomaterials, 115, pp. 141-154, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.10.052.