Dipanjan Pan

Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine; Professor of Material Science and Engineering; Professor of Nuclear Engineering

Dipanjan Pan

Most Recent Publications

Biologically-active Nanostructures Derived from Functionalized Polymerization Initiators

Matthew Becker, Maisie Joralemon, Dipanjan Pan, Kai Qi, Jeffrey Turner, Karen Wooley,

Copper Nanoparticles for T1-Weighted MR Molecular Imaging

Shelton Caruthers, Dipanjan Pan, Angana Senpan, Anne Schmieder, Patrick Gaffney, Samuel Wickline, Gregory Lanza,

A Biosensing Platform Based on Graphene-Gold Nanoparticles for the Rapid Sepsis Diagnosis

M Alafeef, Dipanjan Pan,

Personalized Medicine with a Nanochemistry Twist

Dipanjan Pan,

Photoacoustic Neovascular Imaging and Treatment

Ruiying Zhang, Dipanjan Pan, Manojit Pramanik, Lihong Wang, Gregory Lanza,

Presentations

J Adair, Dipanjan Pan, Sonke Svenson,

Improving T1-Weighted" Hot Spot" Imaging with Colloidal Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Shelton Caruthers, Angana Senpan, Dipanjan Pan, Grace Hu, Samuel Wickline, Gregory Lanza,

Anti-miR oligo-mediated detection of human salivary microRNAs for mild traumatic brain injury

Pranay Saha, André J. van der Vlies, Teresa Aditya, Ketan Dighe, Steven D. Hicks, Dipanjan Pan, 2025, Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Phospholipid Bilayer Properties in pH-Responsive Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers

John M. Sansalone, Parikshit Moitra, Allan Doctor, Dipanjan Pan, N. R. Aluru, 2025, Journal of Physical Chemistry B on p. 2668-2677

Current Strategies and Future Directions of Wearable Biosensors for Measuring Stress Biochemical Markers for Neuropsychiatric Applications

Zach Sheffield, Priyanka Paul, Shraddha Krishnakumar, Dipanjan Pan, 2025, Advanced Science

Most-Cited Papers

Selective Naked-Eye Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Mediated by N Gene Targeted Antisense Oligonucleotide Capped Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Parikshit Moitra, Maha Alafeef, Maha Alafeef, Maha Alafeef, Ketan Dighe, Matthew B. Frieman, Dipanjan Pan, Dipanjan Pan, Dipanjan Pan, 2020, ACS Nano on p. 7617-7627

Rapid, Ultrasensitive, and Quantitative Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Using Antisense Oligonucleotides Directed Electrochemical Biosensor Chip

Maha Alafeef, Ketan Dighe, Parikshit Moitra, Dipanjan Pan, 2020, ACS Nano on p. 17028-17045

Unraveling the Fluorescence Mechanism of Carbon Dots with Sub-Single-Particle Resolution

Huy A. Nguyen, Indrajit Srivastava, Dipanjan Pan, Martin Gruebele, 2020, ACS Nano on p. 6127-6137

Carbon Dots: From Synthesis to Unraveling the Fluorescence Mechanism

Maha Alafeef, Indrajit Srivastava, Teresa Aditya, Dipanjan Pan, 2024, Small

RNA-extraction-free nano-amplified colorimetric test for point-of-care clinical diagnosis of COVID-19

Maha Alafeef, Parikshit Moitra, Ketan Dighe, Dipanjan Pan, 2021, Nature Protocols on p. 3141-3162

3D-Printed Multidrug-Eluting Stent from Graphene-Nanoplatelet-Doped Biodegradable Polymer Composite

Santosh K. Misra, Fatemeh Ostadhossein, Ramya Babu, Joseph Kus, Divya Tankasala, Andre Sutrisno, Kathleen A. Walsh, Corinne R. Bromfield, Dipanjan Pan, 2017, Advanced healthcare materials

Nano-enabled sensing approaches for pathogenic bacterial detection

Maha Alafeef, Parikshit Moitra, Dipanjan Pan, 2020, Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Machine Learning-Assisted Array-Based Biomolecular Sensing Using Surface-Functionalized Carbon Dots

Subhendu Pandit, Tuseeta Banerjee, Indrajit Srivastava, Shuming Nie, Dipanjan Pan, 2019, ACS Sensors on p. 2730-2737

Paper-Based Analytical Biosensor Chip Designed from Graphene-Nanoplatelet-Amphiphilic-diblock-co-Polymer Composite for Cortisol Detection in Human Saliva

Dipanjan Pan, M Khan, M Khan, Santosh Misra, Santosh Misra, Zhen Wang, Zhen Wang, Enrique Daza, Enrique Daza, Aaron Schwartz-Duval, Joseph Kus, Aaron Schwartz-Duval, Joseph Kus, Debanjan Pan, Debanjan Pan, 2017, Analytical Chemistry on p. 2107--2115

Orthogonal self-assembly of an organoplatinum(II) metallacycle and cucurbit[8]uril that delivers curcumin to cancer cells

Sougata Datta, Santosh K. Misra, Manik Lal Saha, Nabajit Lahiri, Janis Louie, Dipanjan Pan, Peter J. Stang, 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 8087-8092

News Articles Featuring Dipanjan Pan

Jan 07, 2026

American Chemical Society removes ‘ACS Nano Medicine’ editor in chief

ACS’s publications office says in a statement that one of the journal’s associate editors, Dipanjan Pan of Pennsylvania State University, will step in as interim editor in chief.

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Dec 28, 2025

Twenty six Indian-origin scientists named 2025 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

At least 26 scientists of Indian origin were elected as 2025 Fellows of the prestigious National Academy of Inventors. They are among 169 selected from US institutions and 16 as International Fellows.

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Dec 22, 2025

Dipanjan Pan named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Professor Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State has been named a 2025 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Being named an NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction currently awarded to inventors in the nation.

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Dec 13, 2025

Penn State Engineering Students Showcase Innovative Designs at Fall Capstone Event

Penn State engineering students presented their semester-long capstone and cornerstone design projects Thursday afternoon at the Bryce Jordan Center, highlighting real-world solutions developed through the Learning Factory’s end-of-semester design showcase.

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Dec 03, 2025

New test distinguishes vaccine-induced false positives from active HIV infection

A Penn State team has developed a new approach capable of differentiating active HIV infection from false positives — which could potentially accelerate vaccine development and testing.

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Nov 17, 2025

‘Groundbreaking’ Test Uses Menstrual Blood to Diagnose Endometriosis in Minutes

It reduces the typical diagnosis time from 12 years to 10 minutes.

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Sep 24, 2025

Simple Home Test for Endometriosis Developed

Diagnosing endometriosis could soon be much easier thanks to a new at home-test that can detect a biomarker for the disease in period blood.

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Jul 22, 2025

Next-gen tech can detect disease biomarker in period blood

Proof-of-concept, at-home device can detect biomarker for endometriosis — a debilitating uterine disease — in 10 minutes; advancement makes early detection easier, more accessible, researchers say.

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Jun 04, 2025

Huck Chair in Nanomedicine plans to take research from bench to bedside

As biomedical challenges grow more complex, Penn State’s Dipanjan Pan is pioneering a multifaceted approach to nanomedicine that spans basic research, clinical translation and entrepreneurial deployment.

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May 01, 2025

$2.7M NIH grant to fund first comprehensive syphilis test

In collaboration with his clinical partners at Penn State Health, Carle Foundation Hospital and University of Alabama Birmingham, Dipanjan Pan aims to develop a one-step confirmatory laboratory test that can definitively diagnose active syphilis infection within 10 minutes.

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Mar 31, 2025

Biomedical engineering grad student earns American Heart Association fellowship

The American Heart Association (AHA) awarded Nivetha Gunaseelan, a doctoral candidate studying biomedical engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, a predoctoral fellowship.

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Mar 31, 2025

$2.7M NIH grant to fund next generation of synthetic blood

A multi-institutional team led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State, recently received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop the next generation of synthetic blood.

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Jan 28, 2025

WATCH: Tracking disease progression in technicolor

The Laboratory for Materials in Medicine is advancing the imaging capabilities by developing contrast agents to target specific molecules and processes that may reveal more about disease progression than traditional scans.

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Oct 25, 2024

New technique allows technicolor imaging of degenerative joint disease

Photon-counting CT scanner uses novel contrast agents in rats to observe multiple biological processes, revealing evidence of osteoarthritis long before clinical symptoms develop.

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May 03, 2024

‘Better than graphene’ material development may improve implantable technology

Borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized in 2015, is more conductive, thinner, lighter, stronger and more flexible than graphene, the 2D version of carbon. Now, researchers at Penn State have made the material potentially more useful by imparting chirality — or handedness — on it, which could make for advanced sensors and implantable medical devices.

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Mar 12, 2024

New GPS nanoparticle to treat basal-like breast cancers

Researchers from Penn State have developed a new “GPS nanoparticle” that delivers therapeutic payload to cancer cells

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Mar 11, 2024

GPS nanoparticle platform precisely delivers therapeutic payload to cancer cells

A newly developed “GPS nanoparticle” injected intravenously can home in on cancer cells to deliver a genetic punch to the protein implicated in tumor growth and spread, according to researchers from Penn State.

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Oct 25, 2023

First rapid tests for chlamydia, gonorrhea exhibit 100% sensitivity

Chlamydia and gonorrhea disease currently has a clinically available rapid test, but that could change thanks to a Penn State-led research team. This could be used for a variety of infections.

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Apr 18, 2023

First rapid test for mpox developed, tech adaptable for other emerging diseases

The first rapid test for mpox, more commonly known as monkeypox, has been developed by a team of researchers led by Penn State.

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Mar 27, 2023

Professor elected fellow of national medical and biological engineering society

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has elected a Penn State engineer to its College of Fellows.

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