Subbu Venkatraman is currently Scientific Advisor to the Singapore Eye Research Institute, while concurrently being Adjunct Professor at both National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. Formerly, he was Director of the Industry Liaison Office at the National University of Singapore. as well as an Innovations Manager at UC San Diego. He received his Ph.D. inPolymer Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University. He has spent about 15 years in biomedical R&D in the USA, working with various applications of polymeric materials, before joining NTU as an Associate Professor in 2000. He was instrumental in starting the Biomaterials effort at NTU and developing the paradigm of research driven by medical needs. He served as an Associate Chair for Research for 6 years, before taking over as Chair in 2011. He holds more than 60 granted patents from a total of 171 applications. He has 284 publications with 12,034 citations and an h-index of 55 (Scopus,5 December 2023).
Research Interests
- Drug Delivery
- Controlled Drug Release
- Biodegradable Implants
- Gene Deliver
Selected Publications
- Controlling the Morphology of Poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(lactide) Self-Assemblies in Solution:Interplay of Homopolymer Additives and Kinetic Traps (Nanomaterials, 2024)
- Sustained intra-cellular siRNA release from Poly(hypenCapswithspaceRetainColl1rginine)multilayered nanoparticles for prolonged gene silencing (Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, 2024)
- Small-Diameter Blood Vessel Substitutes: Biomimetic Approaches to Improve Patency (Biomimetics, 2024)
- Nanotechnology in mRNA Vaccines (World Scientific Annual Review of Functional Materials, 2024)
- Designing siRNA/chitosan-methacrylate complex nanolipogel for prolonged gene silencing effects (Scientific Reports, 2022)
- Progress in Drug-Delivery Systems in Cardiovascular Applications: Stents, Balloons and Nanoencapsulation (Nanomedicine, 2022)
- Nanoparticles-reinforced poly-l-lactic acid composite materials as bioresorbable scaffoldcandidates for coronary stents: Insights from mechanical and finite element analysis (Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2022)
- Liposome interaction with macrophages and foam cells for atherosclerosis treatment: effects ofsize, surface charge and lipid composition (Nanotechnology, 2021)