Namas Chandra
(Chandrasekaran)
105 Council for Higher Education in Newark (CHEN)
About Me
Director of CIBM3 with 29 years academic and 9 years of industrial experience; supervised 43 graduates, published 213 papers, obtained $23 Million with current level of $5M on brain injury
Education
Certificate ; Harvard University ; Management For Academic Deans ; 2008

Certificate ; Florida State University ; Research Administration ; 2006

Ph.D. ; Texas A&M University ; Mechanical Engineering ; 1986

M.S. ; University of Houston ; ; 1983

; Institute of Engineers, Calcutta, India ; A.M.I.E. ; 1978

B.E. ; University of Madras, India ; ; 1973

Teaching Interests
Biomechanics, Finite Element Method, Traumatic Brain Injury, Mechanics of Materials
Past Courses
BME 451: BIOMECHANICS I

BME 601: SEMINAR BIOMEDICAL ENGR

BME 698: ST: INJURY BIOMECHANICS

BME 698: ST:INJURY BIOMECHANICS

BME 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR

Research Interests
Blast induced brain injury, Sports concussion and military medicine, experimental animal models, primary and secondary injury cascades.
In Progress
Neurogenesis after traumatic brain injury.
Evaluate efficacy of IV or intracranial injected peptides in rat TBI model.

Journal Article
Venkatesam Perumal, Arun Reddy Ravlula, Agnieszka Agas, Manisha Kannan, Xiangshan Liu, Shanmuga Sundari, Sivakumar Vijayaraghavalu, James Haorah, Yuanwei Zhang, Namas Chandra. 2023. "Transferrin-grafted albumin nanoparticles for the targeted delivery of apocynin and neuroprotection in an in vitro model of the BBB." micro/MDPI , vol. 3 , no. 1 , pp. 84-106.

Arun Ravula, Jose Rodriguez, Daniel Younger, Venka Perumal, Ningning Zhao, KV Rama Rao, Bryan J. Pfister, Namas Chandra. 2022. "Animal model of repeated low-level blast traumatic brain injury displays acute and chronic neurobehavioral and neuropathological changes." Exp Neurol , vol. Mar;349:113938 .

Yi Qiu, Farzana R Zaki, Namas Chandra, Shawn A. Chester, Xuan Liu. 2016. "Nonlinear characterization of elasticity using quantitative optical coherence elastography." Biomedical optics express , vol. 7 , no. 11 , pp. 4702--4710.

Yi Qiu, Yahui Wang, Yiqing Xu, Namas Chandra, James Haorah, Basil Hubbi, Bryan J. Pfister, Xuan Liu. 2016. "Quantitative optical coherence elastography based on fiber-optic probe for in situ measurement of tissue mechanical properties." Biomedical optics express , vol. 7 , no. 2 , pp. 688--700.

Yi Qui, Farzana Zaki, Namas Chandra, Shawn A. Chester, Xuan Liu. 2016. "Nonlinear characterization of elasticity using quantitative optical coherence elastography." Biomedical Optics Express , vol. 7 , no. 11 , pp. 4702-4710.

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Conference Proceeding
"Characterization of nonlinear elasticity for biological tissue using quantitative optical coherence elastography"
2017.

"Assessment of Cerebellar Injury in Rats Using Evoked Potentials and a Behavioral Task"
Annual Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Society.

"Depth resolved optical coherence elastography based on fiber-optic probe with integrated Fabry-Perot force sensor"
2016.

"On Development and Optimization of Computing Workflows for Big Data Analytics in Brain Injury Research"
Workshop on Data Science, Learning, and Applications to Biomedical & Health Sciences, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2016.

"Biomechanical response of rats under a wide range of blast overpressures in blast injury animal models"
ASME 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC 2013, 2013.

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Book
Namas Chandra. "Hierarchical modeling of deformation of materials from the atomic to the continuum scale." 579-624 pp. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Composite Materials and Structures, 2008.