Malvika Nagrath
Academic title(s):
Faculty Lecturer

Office:
McConnell聽Engineering Building, Room 210
Degree(s):
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada.
- MS, Biomaterials, SUNY at Buffalo, USA.
- MDS, Master of Dental Sciences, Prosthodontics, Pt. B. D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, India.
- BDS, Bachelor of Dental Sciences, Himachal Pradesh University, India.
Areas of interest:
- Analytical techniques towards biomanufacturing
- Blood-biomaterials interaction
- Synthetic biology
- Designing of biomaterial based templates to be used in biological environments
- Fabrication techniques to manufacture biomaterial templates
- Use of biomaterials to solve clinically relevant problems
- Dentistry
Courses:
- BIEN340: Transport Phenomenon in Biological Systems II (W2025)
- BIEN220: Introduction to Mechanics for Bioengineers (W2025)
Selected publications:
- Nagrath, Malvika; Yazdi, Alireza Rahimnejad; Marx, Daniella; Ni, Tiffany; Gallant, Reid; Ni, Heyu; Towler, Mark. In-vitro analysis of tantalum-containing mesoporous bioactive glass fibers for hemostasis. Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials, 2024:1-13. DOI: 10.1080/03091902.2024.2356618
- 聽Nagrath, Malvika; Bince, Danielle; Rowsell, Corwyn; Polintan, Dieanna; Rezende-Neto, Joao; Towler, Mark. Porcine liver injury model to assess tantalum-containing bioactive glass powder for hemostasis. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 2022;33:53. DOI:聽
- Rahman, Saeed Ur; Ponnusamy, Sasikumar; Nagrath, Malvika; Arany, Praveen. Precision-engineered niche for directed differentiation of MSCs to lineage-restricted mineralized tissues. Journal of Tissue Engineering, 2022;13:1-14.
- Nagrath, Malvika; Yazdi, Alireza Rahimnejad; Rafferty, Aran; Daly, Dermot; Rahman, Saeed; Arany, Praveen; Towler, Mark. Tantalum-containing mesoporous bioactive glass fibres for hemostatic applications. Materials Today Communications, 2021;27:102260. DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2021.102260
- Nagrath, Malvika; Gallant, Reid; Yazdi, Alireza Rahimnejad; Mendonca, Andrew; Rahman, Saidur; Chiu, Loraine; Waldman, Stephen; Ni, Heyu; Towler, Mark. Tantalum-containing mesoporous bioactive glass powder for hemostasis. Journal of Biomaterials Applications, 2020;35(8):924-932. DOI: 10.1177/0885328220965150
- Nagrath, Malvika; Alhalawani, Adel; Yazdi, Alireza Rahimnejad; Towler, Mark R. Bioactive Glass Fiber Fabrication via a Combination of Sol-Gel Process with Electro-spinning Technique. Materials Science and Engineering C Journal, 2019;101:521-538
- Rahman, Saeed Ur; Nagrath, Malvika; Ponnusamy, Sasikumar; Arany, Praveen. Nanoscale and Macroscale Scaffolds with Controlled-Release Polymeric Systems for Dental Craniomaxillofacial Tissue Engineering. Materials 2018;11(8):1478
- Nagrath, Malvika; Sikora, Alexander; Graca, Jacob; Chinnici, Jennifer L.; Rahman, Saeed Ur; Reddy, Sharaschandra Govindool; Ponnusamy, Sasikumar; Maddi, Abhiram; Arany, Praveen. Functionalized interfaces using 3D printing: generating infection-neutralizing prosthesis for clinical dentistry. Materials Today Communications 2018; 15:114-119
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