Pratik Gurnani

Contact

• workRoom B30 The Boots Science Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Pratik.Gurnani@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

Polymer synthesis, characterisation, drug delivery, nanoparticle synthesis and their biological applications

Research Summary

As part of the Future Vaccines Manufacturing Hub, in collaboration with Imperial College London, Pratik's work focusses on the production of stabilisers in vaccinology.

Recent Publications

• GURNANI P, BRAY CP, RICHARDSON RAE, PELTIER R and PERRIER S, 2018. Heparin-Mimicking Sulfonated Polymer Nanoparticles via RAFT Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly. Macromolecular rapid communications. e1800314 (In Press.)
• GURNANI P, SANCHEZ-CANO C, ABRAHAM K, XANDRI-MONJE H, COOK AB, HARTLIEB M, LÉVI F, DALLMANN R and PERRIER S, 2018. RAFT Emulsion Polymerization as a Platform to Generate Well-Defined Biocompatible Latex Nanoparticles. Macromolecular bioscience. e1800213 (In Press.)
• SHAIKH, HUDA, RHO, JULIA Y, MACDOUGALL, LAURA J, GURNANI, PRATIK, LUNN, ANDREW M, YANG, JIE, HUBAND, STEVE, MANSFIELD, EDWARD D H, PELTIER, RAOUL and PERRIER, SEBASTIEN, 2018. Hydrogel and Organogel Formation via Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Cyclic Peptides Nanotubes. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany).
• ZHANG, JUNLIANG, TANAKA, JOJI, GURNANI, PRATIK, WILSON, PAUL, HARTLIEB, MATTHIAS and PERRIER, SEBASTIEN, 2017. Self-assembly and disassembly of stimuli responsive tadpole-like single chain nanoparticles using a switchable hydrophilic/hydrophobic boronic acid cross-linker POLYMER CHEMISTRY. 8(28), 4079-4087

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• GURNANI P, BRAY CP, RICHARDSON RAE, PELTIER R and PERRIER S, 2018. Heparin-Mimicking Sulfonated Polymer Nanoparticles via RAFT Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly. Macromolecular rapid communications. e1800314 (In Press.)
• GURNANI P, SANCHEZ-CANO C, ABRAHAM K, XANDRI-MONJE H, COOK AB, HARTLIEB M, LÉVI F, DALLMANN R and PERRIER S, 2018. RAFT Emulsion Polymerization as a Platform to Generate Well-Defined Biocompatible Latex Nanoparticles. Macromolecular bioscience. e1800213 (In Press.)
• SHAIKH, HUDA, RHO, JULIA Y, MACDOUGALL, LAURA J, GURNANI, PRATIK, LUNN, ANDREW M, YANG, JIE, HUBAND, STEVE, MANSFIELD, EDWARD D H, PELTIER, RAOUL and PERRIER, SEBASTIEN, 2018. Hydrogel and Organogel Formation via Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Cyclic Peptides Nanotubes. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany).
• ZHANG, JUNLIANG, TANAKA, JOJI, GURNANI, PRATIK, WILSON, PAUL, HARTLIEB, MATTHIAS and PERRIER, SEBASTIEN, 2017. Self-assembly and disassembly of stimuli responsive tadpole-like single chain nanoparticles using a switchable hydrophilic/hydrophobic boronic acid cross-linker POLYMER CHEMISTRY. 8(28), 4079-4087
• GURNANI, PRATIK, LUNN, ANDREW M. and PERRIER, SEBASTIEN, 2016. Synthesis of mannosylated and PEGylated nanoparticles via RAFT emulsion polymerisation, and investigation of particle-lectin aggregation using turbidimetric and DLS techniques POLYMER. 106, 229-237
• FAULKNER AD, KANER RA, ABDALLAH QM, CLARKSON G, FOX DJ, GURNANI P, HOWSON SE, PHILLIPS RM, ROPER DI, SIMPSON DH and SCOTT P, 2014. Asymmetric triplex metallohelices with high and selective activity against cancer cells. Nature chemistry. 6(9), 797-803