Ajit Sadana

Professor of Chemical Engineering

(662)915-5349
cmsadana@olemiss.edu

B.Tech., India Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1969
M.Ch.E., University of Delaware, 1972
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1975

Faculty member since 1981

CURRICULUM VITA

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Antigen-Antibody Kinetics, fractals (biosensors)
• Analyte-Estrogen Receptor Binding Kinetics
• Protein Folding Kinetic Mechanisms

ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Rhode Island, 1984-1987
• Visiting Associate Professor, Auburn University, 1980-1981
  

NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Research Fellow, Cardiology Division, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, May-August 1999, July-August 2000
• Research Fellow, ORISE, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, Summer 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2000
• Distinguished Fellow, NAVY/ASEE, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, Summer 1991
• Senior Fellow, NAVY/ASEE, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, Summer 1990
• Visiting Research Scientist, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Experimental Station, Wilmington, DE, Summer 1988
• Senior Scientific Officer, National Chemical Laboratory, Poona, India, 1975-1980
• Project Engineer, Enviroengineering, Inc., Somerville, NJ, 1974-1975

BOOKS

• Biocatalysis: Fundamentals of Enzyme Deactivation Kinetics, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1991
• Bioseparation: Fundamentals of Protein Quality Control, Academic Press, San Diego, California, 1998.
• Engineering Biosensors: Kinetics and Design Applications, Academic Press, San Diego, California, 2002.

HONORS

• Listed in American Men and Women of Science
• Who's Who in the South and Southwest
• Who's Who Among Asian Americans
• International Directory of Distinguished Leadership
• Most Admired Men and Women of the Year
• Who's Who in the World
• Who's Who in Science and Engineering
• Who's Who in American Education
• Dictionary of International Biography
• Who's Who in Finance and Industry
• Five Thousand Personalities of the World

CONSULTANT

• First Chemical Corporation, Pascagoula, Mississippi
• National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• NBID Associates, Granville, Ohio

Representative Publications

1. Ramakrishnan, A. and Sadana, A., "A Mathematical Analysis Using Fractals and Biosensors for Binding Interactions of Nuclear Estrogen Receptors (ER)", Analytical Biochemistry, (in press).
2. Austin, M.J. and Sadana, A., "A Fractal Analysis of Analyte-Receptor Binding and Dissociation Kinetics in Microcantilever Biosensors", Sensors and Actuators B, (in press).
3. Ramakrishnan, A. and Sadana, A., "A Single Fractal Analysis of Cellular Analyte-Receptor Binding Kinetics Utilizing Biosensors", Biosystems, 59(1), 35 (2001).
4. Sadana, A., and Vo-Dinh, T., "A Kinetic Analysis Using Fractals of Cellular Analyte-Receptor Binding and Dissociation," Biotechnol. & Appl. Biochem., 33, 17-28 (2001).
5. Price, R. and Sadana, A., "Engineering Process Control of Bioseparation Processes", Handbook of Bioseparations, S. Ahuja, ed., Academic Press, pp. 659-665, 2000.
6. Sadana, A., Ramakrishnan, A. and Vontel, S., "An Evaluation of Hybridization Kinetics in Biosensors Using a Single Fractal Analysis," Biotechnology & Applied Biochemistry, 31(2), 161 (2000).
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