Meenakshi Kushwaha

1157-A 14th Ave S Birmingham AL 35205 205-873-5856 meenakshi.kushwaha@gmail.com

QUALIFICATION SUMMARY

2+ years of Biomedical research experience

Sound knowledge of Drug Eluting Stent Technology
1+ years experience in mentoring graduate and undergraduate students

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering Expected Nov`08

The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
Thesis: Biomimetic self-assembled nanomatrix for Drug Eluting Stents
Funding: Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
GPA: 3.75/4.00

Bachelor of Technology in Bioengineering May`06

SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu, India
GPA: 9.2/10.0 3.7/4.0

RELEVANT TECHNICAL SKILLS

Laboratory Wet-lab Peptide synthesis, Human cell culture, Native and SDS-PAGE
DNA and protein extraction and purification
Imaging Standard and Fluorescent Microscopy, Spectrophotometry,
Small animal cardiovascular Ultra-sound Imaging

Software Statistics JMP, SPSS

Packages MATLAB 6.1, AUTOCAD, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop
Languages HTML, C, FORTRAN 77
Platforms Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP, Unix, Linux

PROJECTS AND EXPERIENCE

UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Birmingham, AL

Research Assistant Aug `06-Present
Synthesis and characterization of biomimetic self-assembled nanomatrix for
Drug Eluting Stents
Cardiac and bone tissue regeneration
Student Mentor (Biomedical Engineering students)
Trained and supervised graduate and undergraduate students in Tissue Engineering
Laboratory for hands-on experimental techniques
Start-up Lab Responsibilities (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory)
Formulating lab technique protocols
Equipment set-up, maintenance and troubleshooting

IISc (Indian Institute of Sciences), Bangalore, India

Intern Jan-Apr`06
DNA and protein extraction and purification from yeast

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IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Kanpur, India Jun-Jul`05
Intern
Developed novel designs for production of aligned electrospun nanofibers

NCBS (National Centre of Biological Sciences), Bangalore, India

Summer Fellow May-Jul`04
Mutagenesis screening of more than thousand mutants to obtain
viable variants of an olfactory gene of Drosophila melanogaster

PUBLICATIONS

Kushwaha M., Jun H.W., Anderson J.M., Minor W.P., Adinarayana A., Bosworth C.B., Lancaster
J.R. Jr., Brott. B.C., Anderson P.G. Natural Endothelium Mimic self-assembled Nanomatrix
for Drug Eluting Stent Applications, American Heart Association, 2008.

Kushwaha M. , Jun H.W., Anderson J.M., Andukuri A. ,Yahiro E., Minor W.P., Husain A., Dell
Italia L.J., Biomimetic Self-assembled, Nanomatrix for Cardiac Tissue Regeneration,
Alabama Academy of Sciences, 2008.

Anderson J.M., Jun H.W., Kushwaha M., Tambaralli A., Bellis S., Biomimetic Self-assembled
Nanomatrix for Bone Tissue Regeneration, Biomedical Engineering Society, 2008.

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Engineering Analysis, Quantitative Physiology, Biostatistics, Cell Biomaterial Interactions, Tissue

Engineering, Implant-Tissue Interactions, Cell Biology

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Society of Bioengineers at SASTRA University, India

Chief Editor of a bi-monthly technical bulletin `05-`06
President and Co-founder `04-`05

AWARDS

Second Place, UAB Graduate Student Research Day Competition `08-`09

UAB Caroline P. Ireland Research Scholarship Award `07-`08
UAB Graduate Assistantship `07-`08
UAB Graduate Fellowship `06-`07
Best Outgoing Student, SASTRA University, India `05-`06
Deans Merit Scholarship, SASTRA University, India `02-`06
Summer Research Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, India May-Jul`04

REFERENCES

Ho-Wook Jun, Ph.D. Richard A. Gray, Ph.D. Susan L. Bellis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Department of Biomedical Department of Physiology and
Engineering, UAB Engineering, UAB Biophysics, UAB
hwjun@uab.edu grayr@uab.edu bellis@uab.edu
205-996-6938 205-975-4715 205-934-3441Associate
Professor

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