Anupama Prabhath

Anupama (Anu) Prabhath is a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Cato Laurencin’s laboratory at UConn Health, where her research focuses on engineering morphogenetic factor delivery matrices for regenerating complex tissues. Anu’s graduate research and teaching training began at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, where she developed nanomaterial substrates for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy-based detection of microbial contaminants in drinking water, and she used surface engineering to improve the biocompatibility of coronary stents. At UConn Health, she successfully completed a collaboration project with the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel. Her research has been recognized with the STAR award in the Orthopaedic biomaterials category in 2019 and an honorable mention in 2018. She was also awarded the Graduate Fellowship for Innovation by General Electric (GE) in 2019. Anu plans to graduate in Spring 2021 and is currently open to Senior Scientist/ Engineer II opportunities in Pharma, Medical Device, and Contract Manufacturing/Testing.