The Murphy Group
Bioinspired Materials Laboratory

Apurva Panjla

Position title: PhD, Research Associate

Email: panjla@wisc.edu

Department Affiliation:

Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine and Public Health

Education Background:

Ph.D. Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology- Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India

Integrated B.S-M.S. Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Research Description:

Developing new strategies for mRNA delivery.

Publications:

  1. A. Panjla, S. Joshi, G. Singh, S. E. Bamford, A. Mechler, and S. Verma. Applying Machine Learning for Antibiotic Development and Prediction of Microbial Resistance, Chem Asian J. 2024, e202400102.
  2. A. Panjla, G. Kaul, M. Shukla, A. Akhir, S. Tripathi, A. Arora, S. Chopra, and S. Verma. Membrane-targeting, ultrashort lipopeptide acts as an antibiotic adjuvant and sensitizes MDR gram-negative pathogens toward narrow-spectrum antibiotics, Biomed. Pharmacother. 2024, 176, 116810.
  3. A. Panjla, G. Kaul, A. Akhir, D. Saxena, S. Joshi, C. Modak, D. Kumari, A. Jain, S. Chopra, S. Verma. Targeting multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus with cationic chlorpromazine‐peptide conjugates, Chem Asian J. 2023,18, e202300169.
  4. S. Joshi, S. Agarwal, A. Panjla, S. Valiyaveetil, S. Ganesh, and S. Verma. Inhibiting Erastin‐Induced Ferroptotic Cell Death by Purine‐Based Chelators, Chembiochem 2022, 23, e202100654.
  5. A. Panjla, I. Qayoom, A. Kumar, and S. Verma. Anionic diketopiperazine induces osteogenic differentiation and supports osteogenesis in a 3D cryogel microenvironment, Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 7422-7425.
  6. A. Panjla, G. Kaul, S. Chopra, A. Titz, and S. Verma. Short peptides and their mimetics as potent antibacterial agents and antibiotic adjuvants, ACS Chem. Biol. 2021, 16, 2731-2745.
  7. N. Bhandaru, G. Kaur, A. Panjla, and S. Verma, Spin coating mediated morphology modulation in self-assembly of peptides, Nanoscale 2021, 13, 8884-8892.
  8. I. Qayoom, A. K. Teotia, A. Panjla, S. Verma, and A. Kumar, ACS Infect. Dis, 2020, 6, 2938–2949.
  9. A. Panjla, G. Kaul, M. Shukla, S. Tripathi, N. N. Nair, S. Chopra, and S. Verma, Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 8599‐86.
  10. H. A. Pal, A. Singh, P. A. Sheikh, A. Panjla, A. Kumar, and S. Verma, Chembiochem 2018, 19, 1127‐1131.

Patents:

  1. “Anti-bacterial short chain conjugated peptides”, S. Verma, S. Chopra, A. Panjla, G. Kaul, M. Shukla. Indian patent 452004, Date of Grant: 15/09/23.
  1. “Taurine functionalised diketopiperazine and process to synthesize the same”, S. Verma, A. Kumar, A. Panjla, I. Qayoom. Indian Patent 399932, Date of Grant: 24/06/22.

 

Awards and honors:

  1. Shri Surendra Nath Gold medal for being the best all-around student in B. Sc. (Hons.).
  2. CSIR-Junior Research Fellowship and CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship for PhD.
  3. Travel award for attending 47th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, 2019.
  4. 2023 IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists for outstanding PhD thesis.