Department of Chemical Engineering | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Dr. Rashmi P Mohanty

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2021 

M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2015 

B.Tech, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, 2012 

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rashmipm[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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  • Rashmi P. Mohanty is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras. Her group works at the interface of chemical engineering, synthetic biology, biological engineering, and pharmaceutical sciences to design humanized disease models for effective screening of therapeutic drugs and drug delivery vehicles. Before joining IIT Madras, she worked with Prof. Ron Weiss as a postdoctoral associate in the Biological Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she used synthetic biology to differentiate engineered human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) into endothelial cells in a spatiotemporally controlled manner toward vascularized organoid formation. She completed her Ph.D. at the College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin (UT), where she worked with Prof. Debadyuti (Rana) Ghosh on developing therapeutic moieties that can overcome the transport barrier of the tumor microenvironment for improved drug delivery. Along with her Ph.D. work, she initiated a project to implement sustainable laboratory practices in biological research labs by reusing and recycling biocontaminated plastic wastes. Prior to matriculation at UT, she completed her Master’s in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, working with Prof. Yogesh M. Joshi on the study of chemical stability of colloidal dispersion of a nano-disc clay, called Laponite. Along with research, she immensely enjoys developing educational content for high school and early undergraduate students, introducing them to scientific research and encouraging them to pursue higher education.

  • Synthetic biology
  • Stem cell engineering
  • Disease modelling
  • Drug delivery
  • Extracellular environment

  1. Bio-contaminated plastic micropipette tip sterilization stations: Environmentally, economically, and energetically viable solution

    Author: Veyssi, Arian and Samineni, Laxmicharan and Mohanty, Rashmi P.

    Journal: Waste Management

    Page: 71 – 79

    DOI/Link:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85218347021&doi=10.1016%2fj.wasman.2025.02.004&partnerID=40&md5=60120a9b6772a0b4685b118e209c6edf

    Year: 2025

  2. Magnetized Cellbots to Spatiotemporally Control Differentiation of Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Author: 2. Mohanty, R. P.,∗ Mallick, S.,∗ Crowley, P., Sokolich, M., Kiwimagi, K., Razavi, S., Belta, C., Das, S., and Weiss, R.

    Year: 2025

  3. Discovery of peptides for ligand-mediated delivery of mRNA lipid nanoparticles to cystic fibrosis lung epithelia

    Author: Soto, Melissa R. and Lewis, Mae M. and Leal, Jasmim and Pan, Yuting and Mohanty, Rashmi P. and Veyssi, Arian and Maier, Esther Y. and Heiser, Brittany J. and Ghosh, Debadyuti

    Journal: Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids

    Volume: 35

    DOI/Link:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85209235213&doi=10.1016%2fj.omtn.2024.102375&partnerID=40&md5=2ae816bb702d746414a98b07b7d7cd2b

    Year: 2024

  4. Highly effective nanoparticle removal in plant-based water filters

    Author: Samineni, Laxmicharan and DeRespino, Sophie and Depaolis, Mekayla and Mohanty, Rashmi P. and Tu, Yu-Ming and Pemmaraju, Sanjana and Velegol, Stephanie and Ghosh, Debadyuti and Kumar, Manish

    Journal: Environmental Science: Advances

    Volume: 2

    Page: 1130 – 1138

    DOI/Link:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85165388144&doi=10.1039%2fd3va00035d&partnerID=40&md5=03b621659f31029119160dc831da3f70

    Year: 2023

  5. Effective pathogen removal in sustainable natural fiber Moringa filters

    Author: Samineni, Laxmicharan and De Respino, Sophie and Tu, Yu-Ming and Chowdhury, Ratul and Mohanty, Rashmi Prava and Oh, Hyeonji and Geitner, Michael and Alberg, Claire Hartwig and Roman-White, Abigail and McKinzie, Sarine and Lemus, Camila and Massey, Joy and Ghosh, Debadyuti and Truskett, Thomas M. and Velegol, Stephanie and Kumar, Manish

    Journal: npj Clean Water

    Volume: 5

    DOI/Link:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85133503294&doi=10.1038%2fs41545-022-00170-5&partnerID=40&md5=69ec1f36069c4725807a1f9629c87cd1

    Year: 2022