Nalin Abeydeera Kekiriwara Godage, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Taylor Graduate Research Award, Kent State University, 2022
• Domestic Travel Award, Graduate Student Senate, Kent State University, 2019

Education & Training

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• Ph.D. Chemistry Kent State University 2022
• B.Sc Chemistry University of Sri Jayewardenepura 2015
• Postdoctoral Scholar Pharmacology and Immunology University of California, San Francisco

Interests

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• Drug resistance
• Antimicrobial
• Anticancer
• Medicinal Chemistry
• Tuberculosis

Websites

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• Linkedin (linkedin.com)
• Google Scholar (scholar.google.com)

Publications (10)

Top publication keywords:
Drug Resistance, BacterialMycobacterium tuberculosisQuantitative Trait LociDendritic CellsPseudomonas aeruginosaChlorquinaldolTuberculosisStaphylococcus aureusGalliumMacrophagesAnti-Bacterial AgentsAnti-Infective AgentsCoordination ComplexesOvarian NeoplasmsMetal Nanoparticles

• History of tuberculosis disease is associated with genetic regulatory variation in Peruvians.
  PLoS genetics 2024 Nieto-Caballero VE, Reijneveld JF, Ruvalcaba A, Innocenzi G, Abeydeera N, Asgari S, Lopez K, Iwany SK, Luo Y, Nathan A, Fernandez-Salinas D, Chiñas M, Huang CC, Zhang Z, León SR, Calderon RI, Lecca L,…
• Transferrin-inspired iron delivery across the cell membrane using [(L2Fe)2(µ-O)] (L = chlorquinaldol) to harness anticancer activity of ferroptosis.
  Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 2024 Abeydeera N, Mudarmah K, Pant BD, Krause JA, Zheng YR, Huang SD
• Lipophilic Fe(III)-Complex with Potent Broad-Spectrum Anticancer Activity and Ability to Overcome Pt Resistance in A2780cis Cancer Cells.
  Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 2023 Abeydeera N, Stilgenbauer M, Pant BD, Mudarmah K, Dassanayake TM, Zheng YR, Huang SD
• Harnessing the Dual Antimicrobial Mechanism of Action with Fe(8-Hydroxyquinoline)3 to Develop a Topical Ointment for Mupirocin-Resistant MRSA Infections.
  Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) 2023 Abeydeera N, Benin BM, Mudarmah K, Pant BD, Chen G, Shin WS, Kim MH, Huang SD
• Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Activity of Ultrafine (BiO)2CO3 NPs Functionalized with PVP That Can Overcome the Resistance to Ciprofloxacin, AgNPs and Meropenem in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
  Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) 2023 Pant BD, Abeydeera N, Dubadi R, Kim MH, Huang SD

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• Bi2O3 nanoparticles exhibit potent broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity and the ability to overcome Ag-, ciprofloxacin- and meropenem-resistance in P. aeruginosa: the next silver bullet of metal antimicrobials?
  Biomaterials science 2022 Pant BD, Benin BM, Abeydeera N, Kim MH, Huang SD
• Harnessing the toxicity of dysregulated iron uptake for killing Staphylococcus aureus: reality or mirage?
  Biomaterials science 2022 Abeydeera N, Yu B, Pant BD, Kim MH, Huang SD
• An aluminum lining to the dark cloud of silver resistance: harnessing the power of potent antimicrobial activity of ?-alumina nanoparticles.
  Biomaterials science 2021 Dassanayake TM, Dassanayake AC, Abeydeera N, Pant BD, Jaroniec M, Kim MH, Huang SD
• Lipophilic Ga Complex with Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Activity and the Ability to Overcome Gallium Resistance in both Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus.
  Journal of medicinal chemistry 2021 Wang Z, Li J, Benin BM, Yu B, Bunge SD, Abeydeera N, Huang SD, Kim MH
• Synthesis, Characterization, and BSA-Binding Studies of Novel Sulfonated Zinc-Triazine Complexes.
  Bioinorganic chemistry and applications 2018 Abeydeera N, Perera IC, Perera T